Born in Vancouver, where he studied piano, musical theory and history and graduated from the University of British Columbia, WIILLIAM LITTLER held the post of music and dance critic of The Vancouver Sun before being invited to become music critic (subsequently dance critic as well) of Canada’s largest newspaper, The Toronto Star. A board member of the Music Critics Association of North America, he is also a founding vice president of the Paris-based International Music Critics Association and was founding chairman of the Dance Critics Association (of North America). A former adjunct associate professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University, he has also taught courses at McMaster University and the University of Waterloo, and is currently a lecturer at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. He has guest lectured at a number of Canadian and American universities as well as the University of Vienna and has appeared as a judge in major music competitions, such as the Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia and the Tokyo International Music Competition. The first music critic to win Canada’s National Newspaper Award in critical writing, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Conservatory of Music.
