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Anne Midgette

The Washington Post

ANDREW FOSTER-WILLIAMS

“Show-stealing force”

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“No praise is too high for bass-baritone Andrew Foster-Williams”

Michael Church

The Independent

“The excellent Andrew Foster-Williams”

Eric Dahan

Libération

“Dominating the entire evening was Andrew Foster-Williams”

Patrick O'Connor

Opera

“One of the handful of leading bass-baritones of his generation”

Joeseph A. Newsome

Voix des Arts

*NEWS*

Andrew is honoured that he has been made a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Music in London. The Fellowship is awarded to those musicians who have distinguished themselves within the profession. He feels incredibly humbled and very touched to learn that he has inherited the Fellowship of the great tenor Philip Langridge, who sadly passed away in 2010

WINNER of BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013 OPERA CD

Händel ALCESTE

Foster-Williams is impressively implacable in his single aria

International Record Review

Andrew Foster-Williams is incisive without bluster in Charon's balefully cheerful 'Ye fleeting shades'

Gramophone Magazine

PURCELL “The Fairy Queen” DVD

WINNER OF 2010 GRAMOPHONE AWARD FOR BEST DVD PERFORMANCE

Glyndebourne Festival’s lavish production of The Fairy Queen, directed by Jonathan Kent and conducted by William Christie, and in which Andrew starred, has now been released on DVD.

No praise is too high for bass-baritone Andrew Foster-Williams

Michael Church - The Independent

Andrew Foster-Williams sings with gusto and appears comfortable as an extraordinary variety of characters

David Vickers - Gramophone

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WINNER Association of German Record Critics’ Award as “A Recording of Exceptional Artistry”

NOMINATED 2012 International Classical Music Awards

Campra LE CARNAVAL DE VENISE

Le Concert Spirituel

Hervé Niquet, Conductor

Andrew Foster-Williams on hugely impressive form

Max Loppert - Opera

The music is irresistible in a performance as charismatic as this – so vivid that one can see, in the mind’s eye, all the fun and frolics on stage. Niquet and his ensemble display the sort of effortless stylishness that makes this music as fresh as the day it was composed * * * * *

Andrew Clark - The Financial Times

Haydn DIE JAHRESZEITEN (The Seasons)

London Symphony Orchestra

Sir Colin Davis, Conductor

Andrew Foster-Williams’ vivid bass-baritone, a model of vocal security and textual definition

George Hall - BBC Music Magazine

Andrew Foster-Williams, a fine classical stylist, is breezily extrovert in the ploughman’s song and the bird-shoot, and brings a grave intensity of line to his momento mori in Winter.

Richard Wigmore - Gramophone

Andrew Foster-Williams as Simon is a real bass, excelling as ploughman or huntsman and never turning cavernous

International Record Review

GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE’S ‘CD OF THE MONTH’

Stravinsky PULCINELLA, L'Oiseau de feu, Le Sacre du printemps

Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

Yakov Kreizberg, Conductor

Andrew Foster-Williams, Kenneth Tarver and Renata Pokupić

A worthy memorial to a fine artist

John Warrack - Gramophone

CD RELEASE - November 2012

Antoine Dauvergne HERCULE MOURANT

(Hercules Dying)

Andrew Foster-Williams as Hercules

Véronique Gens as Déjanire

Les Talens Lyriques

Christophe Rousset, conductor

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Andrew Foster-Williams and the great Véronique Gens play Hercules and Deianira with a passionate intensity that proves all the more remarkable for their avoidance of flashy histrionics.