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Roderick Gregory Coleman Williams OBE (born 1965) is a British baritone and composer.
Williams was born in North London to a Welsh father and a Jamaican mother. He was a choral scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, and then became a music teacher. At age 28, he resumed music studies at the Guildhall School of Music in London. At Guildhall, he made his operatic debut as Tarquinius in Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia.
Williams first appeared at The Proms in 1996, as the Royal Herald in Verdi's Don Carlos. He was a soloist at the 2014 Last Night of the Proms, which included performances of his own arrangements of two songs. His commercial recordings include albums for Naxos and for Signum.
Williams is the president of Junior Saint James Singers, the president of Malvern Concert Club since July 2014 and the president of the Three Choirs Festival Society since December 2016. Williams was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to music.
Williams and his wife Miranda have a son and two daughters. His sister-in-law is the stage director Orpha Phelan.
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- Before and After Summer, Op. 16: 8. Epeisodia
- Before and After Summer, Op. 16: 9. Amabel
- Before and After Summer, Op. 16: 10. He Abjures Love
- Before and After Summer, Op. 16: 6. In the Mind's Eye
- Before and After Summer, Op. 16: 2. Before and After Summer
- Before and After Summer, Op. 16: 7. The Too Short Time
- Before and After Summer, Op. 16: 3. The Self-Unseeing
- Before and After Summer, Op. 16: 4. Overlooking the River
- Before and After Summer, Op. 16: 1. Childhood Among the Ferns
- Before and After Summer, Op. 16: 5. Channel Firing
- Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: 5. It Was a Lover and His Lass
- Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: 1. Come Away, Come Away, Death
- I Said to Love, Op. 19b: 4. In Five-Score Summers
- Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: 2. Who Is Silvia?
- I Said to Love, Op. 19b: 5. For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly
- Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: 3. Fear No More the Heat O' the Sun
- I Said to Love, Op. 19b: 6. I Said to Love
- Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: 4. O Mistress Mine
- I Said to Love, Op. 19b: 3. Two Lips
- I Said to Love, Op. 19b: 1. I Need Not Go
- By Footpath and Stile, op. 2: Voices from things growing in a churchyard
- I Said to Love, Op. 19b: 2. At Middle-Field Gate in February
- By Footpath and Stile, op. 2: Exeunt omnes
- By Footpath and Stile, op. 2: Paying calls
- To a Poet, op. 13a: The birthnight
- To a Poet, op. 13a: Intrada
- By Footpath and Stile, op. 2: The master and the leaves
- To a Poet, op. 13a: June on Castle Hill
- By Footpath and Stile, op. 2: The oxen
- To a Poet, op. 13a: Ode on the rejection of St Cecilia