Emilie Parry-Williams ‘Star of the Show’
The Proms come to Bath on 24 August with a spectacular candlelit concert of classical music.
As part of this Bath Recitals Bank Holiday concert, soprano Emilie Parry-Williams will perform Gilbert & Sullivan’s Poor Wandering One, Britten’s Down by the Sally Gardens and Bizet’s Habanera.
Emilie is a Classical Soprano based in South Wales. She was awarded the Bill Weston Young Singers Award from Glyndebourne Opera House in 2018. Following her studies, Emilie was accepted to study a three month Erasmus through the European Opera Academy at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence, Italy.
‘Emilie Parry-Williams… launching into a show stopping rendition of Je Veux Vivre (I Want to Live) from Charles Gounod’s opera Roméo et Juliette.’
The Guardian
Emilie has been singing since she was five years old, and one of her earliest memories is winning her first singing competition at the age of six at her school Eisteddfod.
She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Classical Voice from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, graduating in September 2019, and a First Class Undergraduate Music Degree from City University of London.
In Autumn 2022 Emilie appeared on ‘The Voice UK’ blind auditions TV show in a duo with tenor, Thomas Mottershead teaming with Sir Tom Jones. Watch their audition
Bank Holiday Prom
Handel Coronation Anthems by Candlelight
St Michael’s Without, Broad Street, Bath BA1 5LJ
Emilie Parry-Williams soprano
Michael Daniels trumpet
David Bednall organ
Daniel Robert Cushing conductor
The Georgian Festival Chorale & St Woolos Sinfonia
Parry I was Glad & Jerusalem
Holst I vow to thee my country
Arne Rule Britannia
Bizet Habanera
Stanley Trumpet Voluntary
Gilbert & Sullivan Poor Wandering One
Britten Down by the Salley Gardens
Clarke A Silent Day
Handel Coronation Anthems
Zadok the Priest
Let thy hand be strengthened
My heart is Inditing
The King shall Rejoice
