John Williams

Tenor, John Elson Williams, is a master’s of music candidate of vocal performance and pedagogy the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Currently, he studies with Stanley Cornett. Other voice teachers include Perry Smith, Louise Toppin, and Judy Bruno. John has portrayed the Journalist and Son in Les Mammelles de Tiresias, the witch in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, both with the Peabody Opera. Mr. Williams participated in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Britten’s Curlew River, The Crucible by Ward, and the Long Leaf Opera world premier of Venus and Adonis by Wadsworth. Additionally, he has performed as tenor soloist for Handel’s Messiah and Saint-Saens’ Christmas Oratorio, as well as presented Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the North Carolina Symphony. John proliferates gratitude to God, family, the Zeta Psi Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America, Inc., friends, instructors, and all others who guide him through the magnificent life of performing.