Former director of music at Shakespeare’s Globe, writer, director, and composer Bill Barclay is best known for his 25+ productions of concert-theatre including Secret Byrd, Peer Gynt, Markus Passion and The Chevalier. He is artistic director of Concert Theatre Works which tours his productions to 30 cities internationally each year. 

As Director of Music at Shakespeare’s Globe, he produced live music for over 130 productions and 100 concerts, composing original music for over a dozen which have toured to six continents. His Broadway and West End credits include Farinelli & The King, Twelfth Night, and Richard III, all starring Sir Mark Rylance.

Orchestral partners include The LA Philharmonic (at The Hollywood Bowl), National Symphony Orchestra (Kennedy Center), BBC Symphony Orchestra (Barbican), London Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, New World Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Harlem Chamber Players, and symphonies in Cincinnati, Milwaukee, St Louis, New Jersey, Virginia, Colorado, Indiana, Hartford, Harlem, Winston-Salem, and Chautauqua.

He has been commissioned five times by The Boston Symphony Orchestra, staging his own original adaptations over 12 seasons including Romeo & Juliet, Peer Gynt, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, L’Histoire du Soldat, The Chevalier, and The Magic Flute. 

An early music specialist, his productions Death of Gesualdo, Bach’s Art of Fugue, Secret Byrd, Markus Passion, and others have variously featured The Gesualdo Six, Music of the Baroque, The English Concert, The Sixteen, Handel & Haydn Society, Fretwork, Academy of Ancient Music, Dunedin Consort, Barokksolistene, Orchestra for the Age of Enlightenment, St Martin-in-the-Fields, National Centre for Early Music, Oregon Bach Festival, Early Music Seattle, Portland Baroque, San Francisco Early Music Society, Abendmusik and others, at dozens of festivals around the world.

As a composer, his original music has been performed for President Obama, for the Olympic Torch, at the United Nations, and three times for the British Royal Family. He was the composer for Hamlet Globe-to-Globe which toured 197 countries, and Call of the Wildwhich toured to 42 states. He directed Silkroad’s Heroes Take Their Stands, and conducted City of London Sinfonia on international tours. He has been commissioned by The Royal Albert Hall, Washington National Cathedral, The Hollywood Bowl, and four times by The Boston Symphony Orchestra.