Janet Williams (soprano)
Janet Williams is an American soprano.
Life
She received the Bachelor of Music Degrees in Voice and Music Education from Michigan State University in East Lansing. After that, she studied voice with Camilla Williams and completed her Master of Music degree from Indiana University in Bloomington. Your vocal activity began at the San Francisco Opera, where she was Fellowship from 1987 to 1991 Member of the Merola Opera and the eagle. She received the first Merola Advanced Training Award and a Stupendium for singing lessons with Regine Crespin in Paris, France.
Since the 1990s, Janet Williams worked on international opera and concert stages with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Colin Davis, Péter Eötvös, Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Marek Janowski, Neeme Järvi, Fabio Luisi, Neville Marriner, Nicholas McGegan, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, Donald Runnicles, Michael Tilson Thomas, Sebastian Weigle, Simone Young and Lothar Zagrosek. From 1992 to 1997 she was a member of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin. She has performed alongside, among others at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the San Francisco Opera, the Washington Opera in Paris at the Opéra Bastille, Opéra Garnier and the Théatre des Champs -Elysées, the Opéra de Lyon, Opéra de Nice, Grand Théâtre de Genève, moreover, in Frankfurt, Cologne, Leipzig, Mannheim, Amsterdam, Brussels and Antwerp in lead roles of the lyric coloratura compartment of composers of the Baroque period to modern times. As a concert and oratorio singer, she operated among others with orchestras in Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Leipzig, Dresden, Munich, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Rome, Palermo, Monte Carlo, Liverpool and Santiago de Compostello. She performed Mozart Festival in New York, at the Berlin Festival days, the Handel Festival in Halle, the Spoleto Festival in Italy, the Festival of Ancient Music Innsbruck and in Montreux Mostly; Schwetzingen; Avignon; Wexford, Ireland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico on. She gave recitals in Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, Isafjordur ( Iceland ), New York, San Francisco, Detroit, Washington DC and in California's Carmel. Williams has lived in Berlin since 1992.
The CD for Harmonia Mundi France from Graun's Cleopatra e Cesare, in which Janet Williams sang the title role won the Grand Prix de disc More CDs are Handel's Messiah ( Harmonia Mundi ) with Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Brahms A German Requiem ( Erato ) with Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto ( Arts) with Gabrielle Bellini. In addition, she had television appearances, inter alia, The Kennedy Center Honors for CBS, San Francisco Opera Gala for PBS Great Performances Series, which was awarded the Oscar documentary In the Shadow of the Stars as Musetta in La Bohème and the documentary L'opera seria for Arte. They also made recordings for radio stations in Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Leipzig and Munich.
Since 2009, Janet Williams teaches at the University of Music and Theatre in Rostock and works as a lecturer at the Lotte Lehmann Summer Academy in Pearl Mountain. She also gives master classes at various universities and music schools as well as for Young Artist Programs including London, Paris, Iceland, and the United States. In 2006, she wrote the book Nail Your Next Audition, the Ultimate 30-Day Countdown for Singers. The book is 2007 German under the title successfully audition! The 30- day countdown appeared to take off.
Works
- Successful audition: The 30- day countdown to take off, Performance Enhancement By Design, 2008, ISBN 0-97875-211-2