Biography
Baritone
Douglas Williams
Douglas Williams has appeared in leading opera roles including Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro with the Milwaukee Symphony, Don Giovanni with Opera Atelier, and Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress with the Munich Philharmonic. Recent highlights include the premiere of a new work by Matthew Barnson with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and a debut recording of Henry Demarest’s Circé with the Boston Early Music Festival. In concert, he has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, NDR Radio Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, National Symphony, and Nashville Symphony. He makes his San Francisco Symphony debut with these performances.
Williams has also been cast in opera productions by choreographers Mark Morris and Sasha Waltz, and he is currently creating a choreographic Die schöne Müllerin for himself and three dancers. In chamber music, he has sung with Igor Levit and the Jack Quartet at the Tanglewood Festival, with the Signal Ensemble in the world premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s It Happens Like This, and recently as a guest recitalist with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. He trained at the New England Conservatory and Yale School of Music.
Williams has also been cast in opera productions by choreographers Mark Morris and Sasha Waltz, and he is currently creating a choreographic Die schöne Müllerin for himself and three dancers. In chamber music, he has sung with Igor Levit and the Jack Quartet at the Tanglewood Festival, with the Signal Ensemble in the world premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s It Happens Like This, and recently as a guest recitalist with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. He trained at the New England Conservatory and Yale School of Music.
