Richard Williams

Richard Williams served as director of the DISD jazz program and taught concert band and woodwind classes at the middle school and beginning levels. During his tenure as associate band director at Duncanville’s Byrd Middle School, his bands received consistent superior ratings, numerous festival awards, and advanced to the Texas Honor Band finals three times. A graduate of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the University of North Texas, Mr. Williams performed as a saxophonist with the Dallas Wind Symphony, the Dallas Jazz Orchestra, the Dallas Saxophone Quartet, the Texas Wind Symphony, and the New Philharmonic Orchestra of Irving, Texas. Richard Williams passed away on August 22, 2001.