Latest News
Canada Tour
Hi there!
I know my Tour Date page has been blank and boring for a while now, but I finally have great news to share. I’m taking my show on the road!! I’m starting the Beyond World Tour in Canada, and hope to see all of you there - or as many as will fit in these theaters! We’ll be playing many songs off of the new record, plus some old favorites, and as always, I will be there after the show each and every night to meet you all, take photos, and generally just spend some time with the best fans a guy could have.
Buy your tickets early and let me know in the forum or on my myspace page which songs you want to hear most!!
Always, William
96.3 in Toronto
Hey Josephans,
I am organizing my pictures and wanted to share this album with
you! While I was touring with Il Divo through Canada last year, I
had an opportunity to perform for this great radio station Classical
96.3. They are based out of Toronto and it is THE classical station... in
fact, it is a national show. I am usually pretty comfortable
performing however I was definitely feeling added pressure with this
performance. I was feeling like I was about to be put under a
microscope because the listening audience would mostly be classical
listeners. Now, as many of you know, I am classically-trained by my piano teacher Stella so I am very aware of
the demand for perfection. (No wrong notes!!) The other thing about
this performance is that we played without drums and basically did
"unplugged" versions of my music - which meant no Steve on drums. Despite the added nerves and the
new acoustic arrangements, I thought the performance went really
well and the interview ended up being quite fun.
I hope you
like the pictures I have posted and... TAKE A LISTEN TO THE AUDIO OF
THE LIVE PERFORMANCE INCLUDING THE INTERVIEW!!! Let me know what you
think!!!
Always, William
Photos photos photos!
We'll be posting amazing new photos of William out and about, at various performances, etc., every few days. Check back often for updates!
DR. PHIL!
Tune in on August 7th to see William's performance on the Dr. Phil show! Check local listings for showtime in your area.
William's Billboard Magazine interview
Hello Josephans!
I just wanted to let you know I am still alive and well. It's been a crazy last couple of weeks in Phoenix while I've been moving in to my new house...in the middle of the summer...while it's been 115 degrees out. I've always had great timing, right? I am feeling a little extra official today, though. Billboard.com has done a feature on me, which you can check out below. I have a lot of exciting things coming up, which I promise to keep you posted on. In the meantime, tell me what you think of the article, and the new album, in my Forum and on my myspace page. In fact, you can leave me a VOICEMAIL on my myspace page, which I think is just about the coolest thing ever, and I promise I will listen to every last message you leave me (and maybe even leave some of my own!).
Always,
William
When you mix 14 years of classical piano training with practical experience -- playing piano in malls at Christmas, playing the organ at Phoenix Coyotes hockey games -- you get to be William Joseph, instrumental composer/performer and Billboard chart debutante.
Piano lessons commenced for Joseph after he banged out the theme from "Fraggle Rock" on a toy piano after watching the show as a child. He studied Chopin and Rachmaninoff with a Russian piano master until his late teens, when he got a job playing organ for his local National Hockey League team. He wrote their theme song, took a break from playing to do a church mission in Australia for a couple of years, and when he returned, he took up mall duty.
"I immediately had to learn how to sell myself," recalls Joseph. He'd set up two chairs by his piano and tell passing shoppers, "'I'm having a one-song concert and I'd love to give you front-row seats.' They would sit down in the middle of the mall and I'd play them a song -- by the time I was finished I'd have a whole mob of people around."
William on Dr. Phil!
Tune in TODAY to watch William on The Dr. Phil show!
* Go to this link to see when Dr. Phil in your city: http://www.drphil.com/shows/listing/
New Performance
William is performing at Foster and Friends: A Tribute to David Foster this Friday at Mandalay Bay. Check back for a behind-the-scenes look!
Welcome
Dear Friends,
I am so excited to be welcoming my brand new record BEYOND into the world. I feel like it has been a long, long time in the making, but I cannot begin to tell you how much I love this album!!! It’s everything I heard in my head when I was writing the music, and then some. I hope you like it as much as I do! There will be a lot of new changes on the website and myspace page in the coming weeks, which hopefully will make things that much easier to enjoy my music, and pass it along to your friends. I might even have a new video or two to share with you!
I just have one last little thing to ask of you all. Will you promise to tell all your friends about this record? It would mean so much to me if I could share this music with as many people as possible, in as many places as possible, and I know if anyone can make that happen it’s all of you.
Thank you sincerely,
William

