William Coleman has sung with Welsh National Opera, English Touring Opera and Buxton Festival Opera. A member of the Chorus of Scottish Opera 1996-2001, he performed a wide range of roles and cover-roles with the company. In demand as a consort singer, William has sung with many leading ensembles including BBC Singers, Dunedin Consort Cappella Nova and Midlands-based vocal ensemble, Ex-Cathedra. He recently formed men's vocal ensemble, Helluvacappella, which performs a wide range of music for concert promoters, music clubs and corporate occasions.
William performs a wide range of 20th century British song composers, giving recent recitals featuring British composers at the Bath
Literature Festival, Buxton Festival, Stratford Festival of English Music and at Summer Music at Balquhidder with
commissions from notable English composers, John Jeffreys and Edward Rushton. William is also bringing the spotlight onto Scottish composers
including Francis George Scott, Ronald Stevenson and Claire Liddell, for which he has received an award from the Scottish Arts Council
and support of the Saltire Society. He recently recorded a disc of lieder by Swiss composers for Guild Records.William Coleman was brought up in Somerset where he was a Chorister at Wells Cathedral School. He read music at the University of Liverpool, where he was a choral scholar at the Metropolitan Cathedral, and studied singing privately with Robert Alderson and then in Glasgow at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with Patricia MacMahon.
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