Born in Wales, Christopher Williams is a music graduate of Cardiff University and now leads a busy and varied professional life as a pianist , composer , conductor, teacher and arranger.
He is currently Assistant Director of the BBC National Chorus of Wales and is a pianist for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales including performances at the BBC Proms and recordings for the Chandos and Hyperion labels.
A staff accompanist at the Royal Welsh College Of Music And Drama since 1997, he has taught piano at Cardiff University since 2001 where his own teachers included Richard McMahon, Martin Jones and Simon Shewring.
As well as his work as a soloist, he is in great demand as an accompanist and chamber musician, and has partnered many of the prominent instrumentalists of his generation including Philippe Schartz, David Childs, Tim Thorpe, David Pyatt and Tine Thing Helseth and has appeared on BBC TV and been broadcast on BBC Radio and Radio Luxembourg.
Recent CD recordings include a world premiere of Brahms transcriptions for solo piano to be released on the Naxos label and a CD of Schubert and Brahms songs also for Naxos.
