JEREMY HUW WILLIAMS
Baritone
www.jeremyhuwwilliams.com
jhw@jeremyhuwwilliams.com

Date of Birth:
3 April 1969 (Cardiff, Wales, U.K.)

Address:
Ty Gwyn, 111 Heol Isaf, Radyr, Cardiff CF15 8DW
& Flat 11, 49 Cleveland Square, London W2 6DB
Tel/Ffacs 029 2084 3753
Mobile 07771 822545

Education: Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, Cardiff (1980-87)
(13 O-Levels, 3 A-Levels, 1 S-Level)
St John’s College, Cambridge (1987-91) (M.A., Mus.B)
National Opera Studio, London (1993-94)

Singing Teachers: April Cantelo (1984-), Horst Günter (1991-93)

Agent: Robert Gilder & Company,
e-mail: rgilder@robert-gilder.com
tel 020 7580 7758, fax 020 7580 7739

OPERATIC ROLES

Astrologer (Burning Fiery Furnace) Teatro di Trento 2007, CBTO (BBC Radio 3) 1997
Elder Son (The Prodigal Son) Teatro di Trento 2007
Kovalyov (The Nose) The Opera Group 2006, 2001
Ferryman (Curlew River) Teatro di Trento 2005, Teatro di Pisa 2005, BBC TV 1998, CBTO (Radio 3) 1997
Mangus (The Knot Garden) Music Theatre Wales/Royal Opera 2005
Sebastian (The Tempest) L'Opera du Rhin, Strasbourg 2004
Poeta (Il Turco in Italia) Buxton Festival 2004
Mayor (Sirius on Earth) Almeida Opera, world premiere 2003
Escamillo (Carmen) Welsh National Opera 1998-2003, Holland Park Festival 2001
Marcello (La Bohème) Welsh National Opera 2001/2002
Serezha (The Electrification of the Soviet Union) Music Theatre Wales/Opera Vest, Bergen 2002
Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) Vest Norges Opera, Bergen 2002, L'Opéra de Nantes 2000, WNO/S4C 1993
Teddy (The Silver Tassie) Opera Ireland 2001
Ned Keene (Peter Grimes) CBSO, Symphony Hall 2001
Germont (La Traviata) Welsh National Opera 2000/2001
M. Gaye (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme) English Bach Festival, Royal Opera House 1995/2001
Shchelkalov (Boris Godunov) L'Opéra de Nantes 2000
Olivier (Capriccio) L'Opéra de Nantes 2000
Arthur (Culhwch ac Olwen) Criccieth Festival 2000
George (Of Mice and Men) L'Opéra de Nantes 1999
Emrys (Tower) Opera Box, world premiere 1999/2000
Tarquinius (The Rape of Lucretia) Music Theatre Wales 1999/2000
Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas) English Bach Festival, Sadler's Wells 1999
Choregos (Punch and Judy) Music Theatre Wales 1998/1999/2000
Till Eulenspiegel (Till Eulenspiegel) L'Opéra de Nantes, world premiere 1999
Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) ETO 1997
Smirnov (The Bear) The Opera Group 1997
Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) L'Opéra de Nantes 1997 & WNO 1992/1993
Belcore (L'Elisir d'amore) Cambridge University Operatic Society 1997
Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni) Pocket Opera Company, Nürnberg 1995-97, Cambridge Opera Company 1991
Lindorf/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) Pocket Opera Company, Nürnberg 1995-7
Consigliero (Arianna) Cambridge Opera Group 1996
Schaunard (La Bohème) Mid Wales Opera 1994/1995/1996
Max (Betly) Opera Europa, Holland Park Festival 1995
Drunken Poet (Fairy Queen) English Bach Festival, Granada Festival 1995
Craig (Craig's Progress) Mecklenburgh Opera, world premiere (BBC Radio 3) 1994
Arion (Arion and the Dolphin) Hay-on-Wye Festival 1994
Enrico (Il campanello di notte) Craig y Nos 1992
Peter (Hansel und Gretel) Cambridge Opera Company 1993
Aristobolo (Berenice) Cambridge Handel Opera Group 1993
Count (Le Nozze di Figaro) Cambridge Opera Company & WCMD 1992
Don Alfonso (Cosi fan tutte) Clonter Opera 1992

COMPETITIONS

1995 National Federation of Music Societies Young Concert Artists Award
1995 Marian Anderson International Voice Competition, USA, Bronze Medal
European Finalist, 1995 Luciano Pavarotti International Vocal Competition
Prizewinner, 1994 Lyon Opera House International Singing Competition
Welsh representative, 1993 Cardiff Singer of the World
Prizewinner, 1992 Grimsby International Singing Competition

ORATORIO

Bach, B Minor Mass, Queen Elizabeth Hall 1997
Bach, Magnificat, CBSO, Symphony Hall 1999, Queen Elizabeth Hall 1996, St David's Hall 1996
Bach, Matthäus-Passion, Highgate Choral Society, New London Orchestra 1996
Bach, Johannes-Passion, Cork Cathedral 1995, Northern Sinfonia 2004
Bach, Weihnachts-Oratorium, Northern Sinfonia 1999, Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester 2000
Beethoven, Ninth Symphony, RPO 2004
Brahms, Requiem, St David's Hall 1993, Opera de Rouen 2004
Britten, WarRequiem, Wells Cathedral 2000, De Montfort Hall 2001, St David's Hall 2004
Bruckner, Te Deum, CBSO 1996
Elgar, Dream of Gerontius, Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra 1995
Elgar, Great is the Lord, CBSO Symphony Hall 2005
Fauré, Requiem, Sydney Opera House 1991, Hong Kong Cultural Centre 1991
Gounod, St Cecilia Mass, Fishguard Festival 1997
Handel, Acis & Galatea, St John's Smith Square, 1998
Handel, Messiah, CBSO 1997, Hallé Orchestra 1996, RAH 1997, QEH 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005
Haydn, Paukenmesse, Queen Elizabeth Hall 1996
Haydn, Theresienmesse, Bournemouth Sinfonietta 1996
Lambert, Last Summer's Will and Testament, CBSO, Symphony Hall 1999
Mathias, Jonah, Bratislava 2006
Maxwell Davies, The Jacobite Rising, CBSO, Symphony Hall 1999
Mendelssohn, Elijah, Llandaf Cathedral 2000
Mozart, Requiem, Philharmonia 1999, Hallé Orchestra 1995
Mozart, Mass in C Minor, Barbican 1996, St David's Hall 1996
Orff, Carmina Burana, RLPO 1999
Schubert, Mass in A flat, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra 1996
Stainer, Crucifixion, S4C Television 1997, BBC Concert Orchestra 2004
Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on Christmas Carols, CBSO, Symphony Hall 1997
Walton, Belshazzar's Feast, RLPO, St David's Hall 2004
Walton, Gloria, RPO, 2004

LIEDER WITH ORCHESTRA

Dutilleux, Songs, BBC NOW 2008
Hoddinott, La Serenissima, BBC NOW 2007
Hoddinott, Tymhorau, BBC NOW 1999, Northern Chamber Orchestra 1996, WCO 2004, 2005
Lutoslawski, Les espaces du sommeil, BBC NOW 2004
Mahler, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, London Soloists Chamber Orchestra, QEH 1996
Mahler, Kindertotenlieder, London Musici 1996
Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, BBC NOW 1998
Nielsen, Symphony No.3, CBSO 2005, BBC SO (Proms) 1999, BBC NOW 1998
Vaughan Williams, Five Mystical Songs, BBC NOW 2002
Vaughan Williams, Songs of Travel, BBC NOW 2000
Walton, Façade, with Lady Walton, King's Lynn Festival 1997, HTV 1999, Ulm 2001, Beirut/Ischia 2002

RECITALS

Beaumaris Festival 1996 (artist in residence)
Purcell Room 1997
Criccieth Festival 1996
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester 1993, 1994
Fairfield Halls 1993, 1997
St David's Hall 1993/94/97/98/99/2000/01/2/3/4/5/6/7
Fishguard Festival 1997
St George's Brandon Hill 1993
Lower Machen Festival 1990, 2000
Swansea Festival 1997
Llandudno Festival 1995, 2003
Vale of Glamorgan Festival 2000
Machynlleth Festival 1995, 1997
Warwick Festival 1996/97/98/2002/04
North Wales Festival 1993/96/97/99/2002
Wigmore Hall 1995/96/99/2003

ON DISC

Francis James Brown, Songs of Rilke and Rimbaud (Kissan)
Alexander Goehr, Arianna - Consigliero (NMC)
Franz Joseph Haydn, Theresienmesse (Sain Records)
Alun Hoddinott, The Poetry of Earth (Sain Records)
Alun Hoddinott, The Promontory of Dreams (Metronome)
Alun Hoddinott, The Songs of Alun Hoddinott (Sain Records)
Herbert Howells, Requiem (Nimbus)
William Mathias, Songs of William Blake (Metronome)
Michael Robinson, A Pretty How Town (NMR)
John Rutter, Mass for the Children/Shadows (Naxos)
Mansel Thomas, Songs (Sain Records)
Michael Tippett, Bach, Pelham Humfrey and Purcell arrangements (Metronome)
Michael Tippett, The Tempest Suite (Metronome)
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Five Mystical Songs (Sain Records)
Stephen Watson, O Captain - LPO (Herald)
Songs for Jeremy (Sain Records)
Songs from a Jade Terrace (Ad Lib Records)
Songs of the Great War (Dunelm)
The Music of Wales - The Classical Collection (Sain)