Roderick Williams, baritone Myra Huang, piano Union College

Sunday, April 26, 2026 - 5:00 PM

The revered British singer has had a long, respected career as an art song specialist, but it was his performance at King Charles III’s coronation that brought him worldwide fame. Closing our season, he performs Schubert’s seminal song cycle about love and despair.

• Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795
• Sponsored by Sandro Cagnin and Wheelock Whitney III
• RUNTIME: 2 HOURS
• Venue: Union College, Memorial Chapel, Schenectady, NY
• General Admission seating — doors open 45 minutes before concert
• All kids and college students admitted free at door
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Roderick Williams is one of the UK’s most sought-after baritones and is constantly in demand on the concert platform and in recital, encompassing repertoire from the baroque to world premieres. Opera engagements have included major roles at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, Dutch National Opera, Dallas Opera, the Bregenz Festival and Oper Köln. He has been involved in many world premieres, including works by Alexander Knaifel, Michel van der Aa, Robert Saxton, and the UK premiere of Sally Beamish’s Judas Passion.

Notable roles and projects include Charpentier’s Medée, Don Alfonso, Sharpless, the title roles in Eugene Onegin and Billy Budd, Papageno, Ulisse, and staged performances of Britten’s War Requiem. In 2023 he sang Germont in La Traviata at the St Endellion Festival and recorded the role for a film released on Sky Arts in January 2025. He has appeared regularly at the BBC Proms and performed at the Coronation of King Charles III in 2023.

His concert and recital career spans many major orchestras and ensembles, and he is an accomplished recording artist whose discography includes the three Schubert cycles with Iain Burnside for Chandos, a French song disc with Roger Vignoles, a recording of Winter Journey with Christopher Glynn for Signum, and a Captain Balstrode / Peter Grimes recording (Gramophone Recording of the Year 2021). He is also an established composer and Composer in Association of the BBC Singers, with commissions including World without End. He has served in artistic and residency roles such as Artistic Director of Leeds Lieder + (2016), Artist in Residence with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (2020–2022), singer-in-residence for Music in the Round, and Artistic Director of the St Endellion Summer Festival (2023). In 2016 he won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer of the Year award and in June 2017 was awarded an OBE for services to music.

Acclaimed by Opera News as being “among the top accompanists of her generation,” and praised by The New York Times as “…a colouristic tour de force,” Grammy®-nominated pianist Myra Huang is highly sought after for her interpretation of lieder and art song. She appears regularly at venues including Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, The Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Kennedy Center, and The 92nd Street Y.

Huang was the recipient of The Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award (2019). She is a two-time Grammy nominee for her albums Gods and Monsters and Clairières with tenor Nicholas Phan (Avie), and is a Steinway Artist. Regular collaborations include recitals with artists such as Roderick Williams and clarinetist Anthony McGill. Huang holds positions as Head of Music for the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at The Metropolitan Opera, Director of Musical Administration and Head Coach at The Aspen Music Festival, and faculty of the Collaborative Piano Department at The Manhattan School of Music.