William Wiedrich

Director of Orchestral Studies

Email: wiedrich@usf.edu
Phone: (813) 974-2311
Office: MUS 312

William W. Wiedrich has served on USF’s Music Faculty since 1995. His responsibilities include conducting the University of South Florida Symphony Orchestra, teaching a large studio of graduate and undergraduate conductors as well as courses in Twentieth-Century Music Literature. He also serves as Music Director of the Tampa Metropolitan Youth Orchestra. His youth orchestras have appeared twice in Carnegie Hall. The TMYO was recently featured at an American String Teachers Association National Convention and has maintained a long-standing commissioning program of music for young orchestras. 

Wiedrich earned his DMA in Orchestral/Wind Band Conducting from the University of Michigan, a Master of Music from the University of Oklahoma, and a Bachelor of Music Education from Michigan State University. Wiedrich previously served as faculty at Michigan State University, East Carolina University, and as visiting faculty at the University of Michigan. He has been a guest conductor and primary conducting teacher at the Jinsha Summer Music Festival in association with China’s Sichuan School of Music, at the Interlochen Arts Academy, and at the Kinhaven Music School in Vermont. He has been the principal orchestra conductor at both the SAS Summer Music Festival and the IASAS International Music Festival in Singapore. He is a regular conductor at Upper Michigan’s Iron County Youth Camp “Batawagama”. He has also conducted the summer orchestra at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and All-State Orchestras in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, New York, and Ohio, among others.

Wiedrich was named Outstanding College Music Educator of the Year by the Florida Music Education Association in 2005. He has appeared on numerous compact disc recordings as conductor and producer, most recently on the Albany, Blue Griffin, Capstone, Koch, and Potenza Music labels. He is also a published composer and arranger.