William Hoshal

A native of the Pacific Northwest, Bill draws influence from many musical worlds, including classical, jazz, and commercial. An award winning composer/arranger and performer, and originally trained on saxophone and woodwinds, his music has been featured in jazz festivals and the concert stage both here and abroad. A lifelong fascination with indigenous music and an interest to connect with his own distant heritage ultimately led him to the Native American flute. Influenced by masters like R. Carlos Nakai, Robert Tree Cody, and Doc Tate, he began incorporating the traditions of the flute into the harmonic and rhythmic structures of jazz and contemporary classical music.
"A friend once told me 'we don’t choose music; music chooses us.' I believe this is especially true of the paths that musicians often find themselves traveling. One direction set upon can lead to many others one may never have suspected existing.
Finding myself in a canyon in Southern Utah holding a Native American flute at first appeared to be a destination so unrelated to the original musical path I had started down, it had to truly have been a dream. And yet, now looking back with the benefit of hindsight, it seemed very logical and not at all unlikely."
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