William Edward Childs (best known as “Billy Childs”) is a composer and jazz pianist from Los Angeles. Born March 8, 1957, he began piano lessons when he was six. When he was 16, Childs started attending the Community School of the Performing Arts, a prestigious music program sponsored by the University of Southern California (USC). After having studied theory there with Marienne Uszler and piano with John Weisenfluh, he attended USC (1975-79), earning a bachelor of music degree in composition, under the tutelage of Robert Linn.
San Jose Jazz Festival
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Billy Childs has had 31 concerts.
Billy Childs is most often considered to be Jazz, Piano, Smooth Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop, Jazz Piano, and African-American Classical.
The last Billy Childs concert was on May 11, 2024 at Blue Note Hawaii in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.
