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Cass Tech Hall of Famer
Janet Williams
American Soprano
American soprano Janet Williams has won international critical acclaim for performances at the Metropolitan Opera, Berlin Staatsoper, Paris Opera, Opera de Lyon, Nice Opera, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Geneva Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Cologne Opera, Leipzig Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington Opera, Dallas Opera, and Michigan Opera Theatre as well as in concerts throughout Europe, North America, Canada, Israel and Japan with conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Myung Whung Chung, Phillippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Marek Janowski, Neemi Jarvi, Raymond Leppard, Fabio Luisi, Sir Neville Marriner, Nicholas McGegan, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, John Nelson, and Gerard Schwarz.
Janet Williams has enjoyed equal success on the concert stage, with appearances at Carnegie Hall with the Israel Philharmonic and with the Chicago Symphony both under the baton of Zubin Mehta, successive seasons with the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York and Tokyo under conductors Gerard Schwarz, Sir Neville Marriner and Raymond Leppard. In Europe, she has debuted with orchestras in Berlin, Munich, Leipzig, Cologne, Paris, Liverpool, Monte Carlo, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Rome, Palermo, Ottawa, Canada and Santiago de Compostela, Spain in repertoire ranging from Bach's St. Matthew Passion and baroque oratorios of Händel to the modern repertoire of Michael Tippet, Wilhelm Killmayer, Samuel Barber, Anthony Davis and John Harbison. In North America she has appeared with the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Minnesota, the New World Symphony as well as the New York, Los Angeles and Santa Fe chamber orchestras. Her interpretations as a recitalist have been critically acclaimed in Berlin, Paris, New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and Detroit.
A native of Detroit, Michigan Janet received a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the esteemed Indiana University School of Music where she studied with soprano Camilla Williams. She furthered her vocal training in master classes and coachings with Regine Crespin, Helen Donath, Brigitte Eisenfeld, Reri Grist, and noted New York vocal pedagogue David Jones.
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