Cameren Anai Williams

Cameren Anai Williams is originally from West Palm Beach, FL and received both her bachelors (2022) and masters (2024) degrees in Viola Performance from The Juilliard School. She studied with Professors Samuel Rhodes and Carol Rodland as a Jerome L. Greene Fellow. She is currently pursuing her doctorate degree at The Graduate Center with Daniel Philips. Williams values the art of collaboration and instruction in the classical music world. Cameren has performed on stages across the world in China, Taiwan, South Korea, London, Vienna and across the United States as an orchestral, chamber and solo musician. She has collaborated with musicians and ensembles across disciplines such as Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Juilliard415, Misha Amory, Nathalie Joachim, Rhiannan Giddens, The Catalyst Quartet, The Broadway Sinfonietta, Shouthouse, and Miss Lauryn Hill. In 2013, Williams had her solo debut at Carnegie Hall as a winner of the American Protege Competition. As a chamber musician, Cameren was a founding member of The Marian String Quartet which won the 2022 St. Paul String Quartet Competition and had their concert debut in Alice Tully Hall in February of 2022. As an instructor, Cameren currently teaches private lessons at The Spence School and is an adjunct professor of music at Palm Beach State College. Cameren’s foundation, CamAnai Strings, repairs instruments for students who have the talent but lack the financial resources to purchase an instrument in South Florida. The most recent project of CamAnai Strings was the children’s book, Kinderlute: A Young Musician's Guide to Taking Care of String Instruments, now available on Amazon and in the Juilliard Store in six languages.

Williams grew up into a family of musicians, educators, and music educators. Her neighborhood in South Florida was a home for many accomplished African American doctors, lawyers, and teachers in the 20th century. Williams’ maternal grandparents, residents in this community beginning in 1958 , were well sought after music educators in the piano and vocal fields having earned their degrees from Peabody and University of Miami. Cameren’s mother, Erika Locke-Williams, was the only child out of four to pursue a professional career in the music field and currently is a professor at Palm Beach State College teaching private lessons, choir, ear training, music theory and private lessons in voice, piano, wind and brass instruments from home. From an early age, Williams’ learned the importance of education within the Black classical music community from watching how much her family contributed to their community.