Acclaimed throughout the press for his authoritative, sonorous and regal voice, Andrew Foster-Williams has established himself as an exciting, young talent in the Classical Music world.

Combining intelligent music-making with an instinctual dramatic sense, Andrew brings vocal virtuosity and charisma to concert hall and opera house alike.

Andrew Foster-Williams studied at, and is now a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, London. He recently made his US opera debut as Leone in Handel Tamerlano with Washington National Opera, resulting in return invitations to sing Leporello Don Giovanni and Albert Werther. Other future opera hightlights include Fenice in Handel Deidamia for Netherlands Opera and Nick Shadow The Rake’s Progress for Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy.

Current and future concert plans include Beethoven Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas; Bach St Matthew Passion with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Tippett A Child of our Time with Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra and Carlo Rizzi; Beethoven Missa Solemnis with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko; Hercules in Dauvergne Hercules Mourant with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset at the Opéra Royal de Versailles; Haydn The Seasons in Lisbon with The Gulbenkian Choir and Orchestra and conductor Paul McCreesh; Bach Christmas Oratorio with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Richard Egarr; Spontini Olympie with Le Cercle de l’Harmonie and Jérémie Rhorer on tour, including Paris and Cologne and a solo orchestral programme of music by Handel and Mozart with Nicholas McGegan and the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras. Future recordings include singing Lusace in Victorin de Joncières Dimitri with Hervé Niquet and the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, and title role in Hercules Mourant with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset. Other highlights include recitals at Wigmore Hall, London with Simon Lepper.

Opera appearances include Leporello Don Giovanni and Albert Werther for Washington National Opera, Pizarro Fidelio in a new Tim Albery production for Opera North, for whom he has also sung Leporello Don Giovanni, Colline La Bohème, Plutone Orfeo and a dramatised version of Schubert Winterreise;  Borée Les Boréades with Emmanuelle Haïm at the Opera National du Rhin; Zebul Jephtha for Opéra National de Bordeaux; Il Conte Le Nozze di Figaro at the Beaune Festival; Alidoro La Cenerentola for Welsh National Opera and Glyndebourne; Golaud Pelléas et Mélisande for Independent Opera, London; the four villains in Offenbach Les Contes d’Hoffman in Moscow and Garibaldo Rodelinda, Melisso Alcina and Argante Rinaldo at the Göttingen Handel Festival.

Recent concert performances have included Haydn Die Jahreszeiten with the LSO and Sir Colin Davis (also recorded for LSO Live) and with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Paul McCreesh; Beethoven Missa Solemnis and Brahms Requeim with L’Orchestre des Champs Elysée and Phillipe Herreweghe; Pulcinella with L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo and Yakov Kreizberg; Mendelssohn Elijah with DSO Berlin and Andrew Manze and Haydn Creation with the Hallé Orchestra and Mark Elder, the Gabrieli Consort, and also in performances throughout France with Concert Spirituel and Hervé Niquet.

US appearances have included Messiah with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Bernard Labadie, Haydn Nelson Mass and Bach Lutheran Mass with Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra, Mozart Requiem with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Beethoven Symphony No 9 with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Andreas Delfs and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco.

ANDREW FOSTER-WILLIAMS

BIOGRAPHY

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