Billy White is a pianist, keyboardist, composer, producer, electronic
musician and songwriter living in New York City. Born in San Francisco, he
graduated attended UCLA's jazz studies program, where he studied under Kenny
Burrell and earned a B.A. in Ethnomusicology. He has won numerous awards
and scholarships, including the David A. Abell Jazz Piano Scholarship, the
Martin Feldman Award, the Duke Ellington Jazz Award and several CMEA Command
Performances. Since moving to New York in 2005, he worked with Blue Note
artist Ambrose Akinmusire, Dayna Stephens, Obed Calvaire, Paula West, and
Marcus Shelby, as well as crossing over into R&B, working with Bilal
(Grammy-nominee), and Maiysha Kai (Grammy-nominee). Never one to mind
boundaries, he has collaborated with gospel star James Hall. as well as
electronic producers Teeko, Captain Planet, and Pablo Ygal (formerly of Plug
Research). He has also composed for film (the festival-winning Bowling
Blind, 2011) and dance (Martha Graham School of Dance, Long Island
University). He has also worked in musical theater, co-writing the musical
"Finding Harlem" with Rent's Ano Okera. In 2010, he released "First Things
First", an album of original jazz, which garnered positive reviews in both
Down Beat Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle.
