Nia Williams

Nia Williams

Piano





Nia graduated from the University of Exeter in 1983 with a First in History,
and has an MA in European Studies. Since 1987 she has worked as a
freelance writer and musician. Her work as a pianist and repetiteur involves
accompanying singers, instrumentalists, choirs and companies including
Opera Anywhere, Stagecoach, English Touring Opera, Oxford Operatic Society,
Music Youth Company Oxford, Charity Opera, Scene Stealers, Oxford Opera Studio.
She has played for singers at venues in London and Oxford, including the
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square,
the Jacqueline du Pre Music Room and the Holywell Room.
Nia also coaches and accompanies students for ABRSM grade exams,
and works with children in school and theatre-in-education projects.

Opera & Operetta

Nia has worked as an accompanist/repetiteur for a number of companies, choirs and societies including: Opera Anywhere, Stagecoach, English Touring Opera, Oxford Operatic Society, Music Youth Company Oxford, Charity Opera, Scene Stealers, Oxford Opera Studio. She is also the pianist for trio terzina, accompanying Rebecca Martin and soprano Sarah Leatherbarrow.

Listen to Nia playing the first movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata in B flat

Concerts and Recitals

Performance repertoire includes:

A Game of Chance Seymour Barab
Amahl & The Night Visitors Gian-Carlo Menotti
Arianna a Naxos Haydn
British and American 20th-century song Barber, Britten, Bowles, Butterworth, Dring, Gurney, Ireland, Vaughan Williams, Ives, Copland, Weill, Gershwin
Cantique de Jean Racine Faure
Carmen (semi-staged) Bizet
Die Fledermaus (semi-staged) Johann Strauss
French song Faure, Poulenc, Chausson, Debussy, Hahn
German & Austrian lieder and song cycles Schubert, Wolff, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Mahler, Shrecker, Richard Strauss
Russian song and song cycles Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov
Second Viennese School (Schoenberg, Berg, Webern)
Stabat Mater Pergolesi

Excerpts from operas including:

Alcina; Rinaldo Handel
Cavalleria Rusticana Mascagni
Cosi fan Tutte; Idomeneo; The Magic Flute; The Marriage of Figaro Mozart
Faust Gounod
I Capuleti ed i Montecchi Bellini
Lakme Delibes
Pearl Fishers Bizet
Porgy and Bess Gershwin
Romeo et Juliette; Orfeo ed Euridice Gluck
Samson and Delilah Saint-Saens
The Barber of Seville; William Tell; Italian Girl in Algiers Rossini
The Tales of Hoffmann Offenbach
Tosca; La Boheme; Madame Butterfly Puccini
Un Ballo in Maschera Verdi

Other concert repertoire includes:

Gilbert & Sullivan (staged and concert)
Music hall & operetta (concert)
Swing, Boogie-Woogie, Light Jazz, Show Standards (theatre & concert)

Masterclasses & Workshops

A Game of Chance Vocal Masterclass (Mary Hill) Seymour Barab
A Musical in a Day Theatre Workshop, Birmingham Hippodrome (Ed Blagrove)
Dido & Aeneas (Ruth Holleley) Purcell
Duets and Small Ensembles (Jean Allister) Bach, Mozart, Bizet, Offenbach, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Delibes
English Song (Jean Allister; Graham Trew) Finzi, Head, Gurney, Britten, Quilter, Ireland, Stanford
French Song (Jean Allister) Debussy, Faure, Poulenc, Berlioz, Halevy, Lalo
Grieg Songs (Beryl Foster)
Italian Song (Jean Allister) Pergolesi, Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Caccini, Torelli
Jazz for SSA (Gwyn Arch) Porter, Kern, Howard, Garner, Duke Ellington
Messiah (Ruth Holleley) Handel
Stabat Mater (Martin Quinn) Pergolesi
The Marriage of Figaro (Ruth Holleley, Dan Barker) Mozart

Musicals, Festivals & Events

Abingdon Music Festival
Cheltenham Music Festival
National Choir Festival
Oxford Lieder Fringe Festival
Oxford Music Festival

Functions include: wedding receptions; garden fetes; cabaret/dinner-dance events; Burns Nights; conferences; memorial services; birthday/anniversary celebrations

Repetiteur, rehearsal pianist and theatre-band keyboard-player for many musicals staged by music societies including:

Oklahoma; South Pacific; Carousel; The King & I Rodgers & Hammerstein
Me & My Girl Gay, Rose & Furber
West Side Story Bernstein & Sondheim
Candide Bernstein
Pirates of Penzance; Iolanthe; The Gondoliers Gilbert & Sullivan
Crazy For You George & Ira Gershwin
Annie Strouse & Charnin
Guys and Dolls Loesser
Fiddler on the Roof Bock & Harnick
Forty-Second Street Dubin & Warren
The Boy Friend Wilson
Singin' in the Rain Comden, Green, Freed & Brown
Kiss Me Kate; Anything Goes Cole Porter
Oliver! Lionel Bart
Les Miserables Schonberg & Boublil
RJ, The Musical Ardy & Milburn
Thoroughly Modern Millie Tesori & Scanlan
The Full Monty Yazbeck & McNally
Chess Andersson, Ulvaeus & Rice

Venues

London
  • Eglise Suisse, Covent Garden
  • St Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street
  • St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square
Oxford
  • Bartlemas Chapel
  • Corpus Christi College
  • Harris Manchester College
  • Headington Theatre
  • Hertford College
  • Holywell Music Room
  • Jacqueline du Pre Music Building
  • Magdalen College Boys' School
  • Merton College
  • New Theatre
  • O3 Gallery, Castle Complex
  • Old Fire Station Studio Theatre
  • Oxford Ice Rink
  • Oxford Playhouse
  • St Cross Church
  • St Michael's at Northgate
  • Wesley Memorial Church
  • Worcester College


Outside Oxford
  • Abingdon School
  • Birmingham Hippodrome
  • Cheltenham Town Hall
  • Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke
  • Manor School, nr Abingdon
  • Stratfield Saye, Berks
  • The Anvil, Basingstoke
  • The Manor House, Blewbury
  • Thorpe Park
  • Winter Gardens, Bournemouth



    • Member of Musicians' Union and
    Performing Rights Society.


For more information visit Nia's website at www.niawilliams.com.

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