Storytelling is central to all of Bill’s work – for performing, teaching, consulting, speaking and writing.
Some performance highlights include:
- The New York Philharmonic
- Commissioned by the orchestra as librettist and narrator on a new work The Roaring Mountain with composer Jon Deak for the Young Peoples Concert, World Premier, Avery Fisher Hall, NYC, April 2005.
- Instrument Village pieces created and performed with Jon Deak for Series of KIDZONE LIVE! 2005 – 2009.
- New York Philharmonic - Young People Concerts
- The Easter Egg Roll at the White House
- Washington, DC
- Featured Storyteller – 1998, 1999, 2000.
- The Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum
- Houston, TX
- Commissioned to create and perform a program of Greek and Cypriot Tales, June 2009.
- Menil.org - Byzantine Fresco
- The Clearwater Festival
- Pete Seeger’s Hudson River Fest
- Featured storyteller, June 2007.
- Clearwater Festival
- The Tribeca Film Festival Family Day
- Tribeca, NYC
- Storytelling consultant, host and performer, 2002 – 2009
- Tribecca Film Festival
- The Gerald Ford Amphitheatre
- Vail, Colorado
- Family Concert
- www.vvf.org
- Steinway Hall
- New York City
- An Evening of Music with Stories with Carter Brey, Jon Deak & George Wurzbach, 2007.
- www.steinwayhall.com
- The American Museum of Natural History
- New York City
- Featured storyteller for Family Night
- Featured family storyteller for evening honoring major contributors to museum
- www.amnh.org
- The Museum of American Folk Art
- New York City
- Series of storytelling programs created to accompany specific exhibitions.
- folkartmuseum.org
- Scholastic’s 75th Birthday
- Family Heritage Storytelling Project
- At PS 150 Tribeca, NYC
- Funded by Parents As Partners Grant
- Worked with families on their own heritage stories.
- New York Historical Society
- A special program inspired by specific works in the collection
- New York Historical Society
- The Bronx Zoo
- A series of performances specifically tied to themes of exhibitions.
- Bronx Zoo
- Hans Christian Andersen Storytelling
- Created and curated by Diana Wolkstein – stories at the statue in Central Park 2005 -2008
- Scandinavia House – Programs of Scandinavian Tales, 2006 – 2009.
- Scandinavia House
