Music like Will Stratton

Will Stratton (b. April 10, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter and composer. He released his first album during the summer after graduating from high school and has gone on to release a total of six albums. His title track from the album No Wonder was an NPR Song of the Day in 2010.

Stratton was born in Northern California, but raised primarily in New Jersey. He began taking piano lessons at the age of four. He spent one year at University of Puget Sound studying philosophy, before finishing college at Bennington College, where he switched his studies to music composition. While at Bennington, Stratton took classes from composer Allen Shawn, which led him to compose his first pieces for other ensembles than a standard string quartet. Stratton has incorporated projects from his course work at Bennington into his albums, including a set of ten piano preludes composed for a second course taught by Shawn. He lives in New York state.