Roderick Williams Appointed Artistic Director of Leeds Lieder +
03.07.14Roderick Williams has been appointed Artistic Director of the next Leeds Lieder + International Festival of Song due to take place in April 2016. This will be the first time in its ten year history that a singer has taken the helm. Jane Anthony, the Founder, says ‘We are delighted that Roderick Williams has accepted our invitation. He is well-known and well-loved as a supremely accomplished baritone with great communication skills; he is also a hugely respected composer and musician with an imaginative approach to programming and a love of the experimental and new.’
Roderick Williams says ‘I am thrilled to have been given this opportunity to explore an aspect of Lieder singing that fascinates me – story telling. Everyone loves a good story, especially when it is told out loud to them and I believe that the best communicators in song know how to employ skills that have delighted human beings since we lived in caves. I look forward to exploring story in song with international performers and experts in music as well as the spoken word; I hope audiences of all ages and interests will join me and the Leeds Lieder+ Festival for a fantastical journey through the imagination.’