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 Scott
Williamson is the winner of the 2005 International Opera Singers Competition,
held by the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York, which sponsored
the tenor in a recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in
2007. Recent stage engagements include the Lamplighter and the Drunkard
in The Little Prince for Tulsa Opera, Alfredo for the Annapolis Chamber
Orchestra, Macduff for Opera Roanoke, and Massenet’s Thérèse
for the St. Andrew’s Music Series in New York. He appeared in
recital at the Bard Music Festival in 2006 and 2007. International stage
credits include Iro in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno díUlisse
in Patria at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and the Snape Proms,
and Agenore in Mozart’s Il Re Pastore with New Kent Opera. In
Sarasota Opera’s 2004 season he was a soloist in the US premiere
of Verdi’s Messa solenne. Recent concert engagements include the
Evangelist in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and St Matthew Passion,
Schütz’s Christmas Story, Britten’s Cantata Misericordium,
and Carmina Burana. Other concert appearances include Monteverdi’s
Vespers of 1610, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem,
Britten’s War Requiem, Saint Nicolas, and Serenade for Tenor,
Horn and Strings. In New York, he has sung with Bronx Opera as Alfredo
in La Traviata and the Magician in Menotti’s The Consul. He has
also been featured in concerts with the St. Thomas Choir of Men and
Boys, National Chorale, New York Cantata Singers, Grace Church Choral
Society, the Dessof Choirs, the West Village Chorale, the St Andrew’s
Choral Society and the Grace Choral Society of Brooklyn. Williamson
has appeared with the American Symphony Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort,
Washington Chorus, Folger Consort, Hartford Symphony, Glens Falls Symphony,
Maryland Symphony, and among others, the Orchestra of the 17th century.
A native of Chesapeake, VA, Williamson holds degrees from James Madison
University and Westminster Choir College, and earned the Doctor of Musical
Arts degree from the University of Maryland. He is currently Associate
Professor of Music at Goshen College, where he conducts the Chorale,
Men’s Chorus, and Opera Workshop. |
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