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World renowned installation artist, musician and innovator WILLIAM CLOSE has traveled all over the world, amazing audiences with his unique, one of a kind and entirely original musical instruments. WILLIAM has created over 100 new types of instruments. Now for the first time ever in Qatar, William close and his Earth Harp Collective are very excited to present their show at Katara.   WILLIAM’s work explores the connection between architecture and music.  Inspired by the Frank Lloyd Wright quote “architecture is frozen music,” CLOSE creates musical installations that use the architecture as part of the instrument. finished third on NBC’s hit talent competition “America’s Got Talent.” The group received massive praise and admiration from fans and all three judges, and were the only act to receive a standing ovation for every performance. After WILLIAM and the Earth Harp Collective’s second performance, the show’s host Nick Cannon announced that WILLIAM had received “the biggest and longest standing ovation the show had ever seen.” New judge Howard Stern kicked off the season by stating, “I bow to you.” Sharon Osbourne went on to say, “You are over and above anything I have ever seen on this stage,” while Howie Mandel raved, “You sir are an amazing performer. I would pay any amount of money to sit and watch this concert.