Managing Partner Michael Wildes and Associate Attorney Josh Wildes are pleased to announce our successful representation of William Antoniou, a distinguished composer of Film, TV and Theater music.
William Antoniou is known for his moving musical storytelling and lyrical yet pulsating melodies. He has received numerous awards for his film scoring including Best Original Music For A Short Film at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, (Discussing Space, 2008), and Best Original Score at the L.A. Shorts Awards, (Lucy, 2015). He also received critical acclaim for his score for Giles Foreman’s Oleander (2015). He is currently attached to compose the score for Hannah Bales’ “So Happy I Could Die” and “Dendrophilia,” both set for release in 2026, as well as the TV adaptation of David P. Perlmutter’s novel “Write To Kill.”
In the world of music theater, Antoniou has worked with many notable directors including Lee Breuer (TRAFOI, 2008), Kay Walker Castaldo (La Sainte, 2004), and Ashley Tata, (Anathema: Alan Mathison Turing, 2017). He has written two musicals with librettist Eamonn Farrell, A Wonderland (2010) and The Return (2012). In 2014, Antoniou and Farrell were finalists for the prestigious Jonathan Larson Grant given for outstanding achievement in music theater for their opera Anathema: Alan Mathison Turing. Antoniou is currently writing his second opera, an adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” with librettist Sam Norman.
Antoniou’s work has been performed by many formidable conductors and ensembles such as David Bloom, Saulius Sodeckis, L’Anima Quartet, and ALEA III. He has also been commissioned twice by the Greek National Opera. Antoniou is also the youngest composer ever accepted to New Dramatists’ Composer/Librettist studio held annually in New York City.
Wildes & Weinberg was founded in 1960 by Senior Partner, Leon Wildes. He was best known for his successful representation of former Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono as they fought the Nixon Administration during a five year bitterly contested Deportation Proceeding.
Nearly three quarters of a century later, the firm continues to concentrate its practice in all aspects of U.S. immigration and nationality law, servicing the immigration requirements of prominent American and International firms, banks, industrial, financial, and manufacturing concerns, as well as law firms in connection with the personnel needs of their foreign national employees.
In addition, the firm has a distinguished clientele and has done substantial immigration work for performing artists, directors, writers, models, actors/actresses, athletes, fine artists, art dealers, curators, and literary agents. Most notable was Leon Wildes’ successful representation of former Beatle John Lennon and his artist wife, Yoko Ono in their deportation proceedings, the basis of which has inspired legislation, and has been portrayed in films, plays, and literary works worldwide. Some of the firm’s other distinguished clients include scholar Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (z”l), as well as soccer icon Pele, Master Chef Jean-Georges, musicians Sinead O’ Connor and Boy George, as well as First Lady Melania Trump and her family.
Michael Wildes, the firm’s Managing Partner, is also currently serving his fifth term as Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey, is the author of Safe Haven in America: Battles to Open the Golden Door (which draws on over a quarter of a century of his practice in the immigration field), is an Adjunct Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, and serves as Counsel to Lincoln Center and several international/corporate law firms.
Despite difficulties currently being encountered in dealing with U.S. immigration authorities, the firm has maintained an extraordinary track record for success in its cases. The firm’s litigation group has expanded its efforts in filing Mandamus Actions and other Actions in Federal Courts throughout the nation.
In addition, Wildes & Weinberg’s multilingual staff is spread throughout its offices in New York City, Englewood, New Jersey, Miami, Florida, and by appointment only in Los Angeles, California and Tel Aviv, Israel, and are known for their experience and special expertise in processing each foreign national’s case with nothing less than the highest level of professionalism.
For more information on our firm please visit www.wildeslaw.com or contact Michael Wildes at michael@wildeslaw.com.