Roderick Williams

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Roderick Gregory Coleman Williams (* 1965 in London ) is an English baritone who works as an opera, concert and lied singer and also as a composer .

Life

Roderick Williams was born in north London . His father was from Wales and his mother from Jamaica . He studied opera singing at the Guildhall School of Music in London. During this time he made his operatic debut as Tarquinius in Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia .

He has performed at the English National Opera , Opera North, Scottish Opera, New Israeli Opera, the BBC Proms and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, worked with numerous European orchestras including all the BBC orchestras in the UK and has given recitals at venues such as z. B. Wigmore Hall . On September 13, 2014 he was a soloist for the first time at the Last Night of the Proms . He took part in the cantata Taillefer by Richard Strauss , sang his own arrangements of two songs and was the soloist in the final Rule, Britannia! .

On the opera stage he performed roles such as Eugene Onegin at Garsington Opera in June / July 2016 or Papageno at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in Sep./Oct 2017.

In 2017 he was appointed Visiting Consultant in Vocal Performance at the Birmingham Conservatoire .

Prizes and awards

repertoire

In opera houses or in concert performances, Roderick Williams a. a. in the following roles:

Discography

Sound recordings (selection)

Roderick Williams has worked on a variety of recordings. These include song albums such as B.

  • Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel , The House of Life , Poems by Fredegond Shove. For baritone and piano. Naxos, 2005.
  • George Butterworth: Songs for Baritone and Piano. Naxos, 2010.
  • Songs by Schumann, Mahler, Korngold and Wolf for baritone and piano. Wigmore Hall, 2011.
  • Der Wanderer, Schubert songs for baritone and piano. Delfian, 2016.
Complete recordings of operas, oratorios and symphonic works
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Poisoned Kiss. (Opera in 3 acts), Chandos, 2002.
  • Benjamin Britten: Albert Herring . Chandos, 2003.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams, Symphony No. 1 A Sea Symphony . Katherine Broderick, Roderick Williams, Hallé Choir, Hallé Orchestra under Mark Elder. Hallé, 2015.

Video recordings on DVD or Blu-ray Disc

  • Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes-Passion BWV 245 with Roderick Williams as Jesus, recording from the Berlin Philharmonic in the ritualization of Peter Sellars. Rundfunkchor Berlin and Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle . BPH, 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannah Nepil, Interview with baritone Roderick Williams before 'Albert Herring' at the Barbican , FT.com/Arts, November 22, 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  2. ↑ Allmusic Guide Biography.
  3. ↑ Roderick Williams on the Ingpen & Williams agency website.
  4. ↑ BBC Proms 2014: Last Night of the Proms, review: 'soaringly carried away' , The Telegraph, September 14, 2014. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  5. ↑ Video document of the final scene by Eugene Onegin. Garsington Opera, March 30, 2017, accessed September 18, 2017 .
  6. ^ Hannah Nepil: The Magic Flute, Royal Opera House, London - timelessly elegant. Financial Times, September 13, 2017, accessed September 18, 2017 .
  7. ^ Roderick Williams OBE takes on new role at Birmingham Conservatoire. Express & Star, July 27, 2017, accessed July 27, 2017 .
  8. ^ Last years winners (2016). RPS Awards, May 10, 2016, accessed July 27, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Chris Shipman: Opera and ballet talent recognized in Queen's Birthday Honors 2017. Royal Opera House, June 17, 2017, accessed July 27, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Allmusic Guide Discography
  11. ↑ Review of the scenic Johannes Passion in the Berliner Philharmonie, Berliner Zeitung of February 28th, 14. Accessed on September 6th, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Roderick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Roderick Gregory Coleman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English baritone who works as an opera, concert and lied singer and also as a composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK