Joel Williams is a tenor on the Graduate Diploma course at the Royal College of Music where he studies with Justin Lavender and Andrew Robinson, and is an RCM Scholar supported by a Soirée d’Or Award and the Josephine Baker Trust. Joel made his operatic debuts at ROH, ENO, and Glyndebourne as a boy treble playing Cobweb in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of Die Zauberflöte’s Drei Knaben, and peasant-child in Puccini's Turandot. In oratorio he played the boy-king Joas in Handel’s Athalia with Paul McCreesh, and toured with the Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Joel studied History at King’s College, Cambridge, where he was a Choral Scholar, taking part in daily chapel services, recordings, and radio and television broadcasts. He was a soloist on many of the choir’s recordings, including its latest, Favourite Carols from King’s. As a concert soloist he has performed a broad range of repertoire including Bach’s St Matthew Passion, and Britten’s Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings. On stage, he has played Tamino in Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Phantom in Phantom of the Opera. Joel looks forward to his solo debut for the Royal College of Music International Opera School in the role of Mr Upfold, the Mayor, in Britten's Albert Herring. Joel is passionate about art song. He has had success in song competitions, winning the Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize Competition at the Royal Academy, the Sidney Sussex Lieder Competition, and the Pembroke Lieder Scheme. Joel was awarded third prize in the Brooks-van der Pump English Song competition at the Royal College of Music. Joel recently performed with Kitty Whately at the Wigmore Hall, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Joel is grateful for the additional support of the Seary Charitable Trust, the Ryan Davies Memorial Fund, the Mario Lanza Foundation, and the Michael James Trust.
