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Roderick Gregory Coleman Williams OBE (born 1965) is a British baritone and composer. BiographyWilliams was born in North London to a Welsh father and a Jamaican mother.[1] He was a choral scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, and then became a music teacher.[2] At the age of 28, he resumed music studies at the Guildhall School of Music in London. At Guildhall, he made his operatic debut as Tarquinius in Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia. Williams first appeared at The Proms in 1996, as the Royal Herald in Verdi's Don Carlos. He was a soloist at the 2013 Proms production of Ralph Vaughan Williams' "A Sea Symphony" [3], and again in 2014 Last Night of the Proms, which included performances of his own arrangements of two songs.[4] His commercial recordings include albums for Naxos and for Signum.[5][6][7] Williams is the president of Junior Saint James Singers, the president of Malvern Concert Club since July 2014 and the president of the Three Choirs Festival Society since December 2016.[8] He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to music.[9] In 2019, he was announced as Patron for Birmingham Bach Choir.[10] Williams and his wife Miranda have a son and two daughters.[1] His sister-in-law is the stage director Orpha Phelan.[11] Operatic repertoire{{col-begin|width=700px}}{{col-break|width=50%}}
References1. ^1 {{cite news | author=Hannah Nepil | title=Interview with baritone Roderick Williams before Albert Herring at the Barbican | url=https://www.ft.com/content/7ec9d6f4-4c8d-11e3-923d-00144feabdc0?mhq5j=e1 | work=Financial Times | date=22 November 2013 | accessdate=12 July 2017}} 2. ^{{cite news | title=Facing the music: Roderick Williams | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/16/roderick-williams-facing-the-music | work=The Guardian | date=16 January 2017 | accessdate=12 July 2017}} 3. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp4G5vtdSWc |title=Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (BBC Proms 2013 - Sakari Oramo: Conducts) | accessdate=5 January 2019}} 4. ^{{cite news | author=Imogen Tilden | title=Roderick Williams on the Last Night of the Proms: 'Maybe I should dress as Britannia and wave a Jamaican flag' | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/sep/10/roderick-williams-baritone-last-night-proms-rule-britannia | work=The Guardian | date=10 September 2014 | accessdate=12 July 2017}} 5. ^{{cite news | author=Andrew Clements | title=Finzi: I Said to Love; Let Us Garlands Bring; Before and After Summer: Williams/ Burnside | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/may/06/classicalmusicandopera.shopping2 | work=The Guardian | date=6 May 2005 | accessdate=12 July 2017}} 6. ^{{cite news | author=Andrew Clements | title=Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel; The House of Life; Four Poems by Fredegond Shove, Williams/ Burnside | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/nov/04/classicalmusicandopera.shopping2 | work=The Guardian | date=4 November 2005 | accessdate=12 July 2017}} 7. ^{{cite news | author=Andrew Clements | title=Venables: Song of the Severn, Pine Boughs CD review – convincing and yearning | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/16/venables-song-of-the-severn-pine-boughs-cd-review-williams-lloyd-carducci | work=The Guardian | date=16 July 2015 | accessdate=12 July 2017}} 8. ^{{cite press release | url=http://www.3choirs.org/article/roderick-williams-to-be-president-of-three-choirs-festival-society | title=Roderick Williams to be President of Three Choirs Festival Society | publisher=Three Choirs Festival Society | date=December 2016 | accessdate=12 July 2017}} 9. ^{{London Gazette|issue=61962|supp=y|page=B14|date=17 June 2017}} 10. ^{{cite news | author=Unknown | title='Roderick Williams OBE announced as new Patron of Birmingham Bach Choir.' Choir continue centenary celebrations with special recital and new appointment | url=https://www.whatsonlive.co.uk/birmingham/news/roderick-williams-obe-announced-as-new-patron-of-birmingham-bach-choir/43825 | work=What's On (Birmingham) | date=3 April 2019 | accessdate=4 April 2019}} 11. ^{{cite news | author=Claudia Pritchard | title='I count the ethnic minorities in the audience...It doesn't take long.' Roderick Williams on opera's diversity problem | url=https://inews.co.uk/essentials/i-count-ethnic-minorities-audience-doesnt-take-long-roderick-williams-operas-diversity-problem/ | work=iNews | date=30 May 2016 | accessdate=12 July 2017}} 12. ^{{cite news | author=Roderick Williams | title=How to be good? Getting to grips with Billy Budd | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/14/billy-budd-britten-opera-roderick-williams-leeds-grand-theatre | work=The Guardian | date=14 October 2016 | accessdate=13 July 2017}} External links
6 : 1965 births|Living people|English operatic baritones|English people of Jamaican descent|Singers from London|Officers of the Order of the British Empire |
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