Leon Williams * (Jake)
Baritone – New York City, N.Y.

Highlights: Anthony in Sweeney Todd (Toledo Opera); Papageno in Die Zauberflöte (Hawaii Opera Theatre); Porgy in Porgy & Bess (St. Petersburg, Russia); Brahm’s Vier ernste Gesänge (Da Camera Society of Houston); all-American programs at Japan’s Tochigi Music Festival and Maine’s Arcady Music Festival; Sportin’ Life in Porgy & Bess (Duluth-Superior Symphony); Elijah (Honolulu Symphony); Carmina Burana (Florida Orchestra, Westchester, Grand Rapids, Hartford and Colorado Symphonies); “Art of the Spiritual” program at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater and Faure’s Requiem (Kansas City Symphony); Poulenc program with Michel Sénéchal and Dalton Baldwin at the 92nd Street Y in NYC.

After Porgy & Bess: St. Matthew Passion with the National Philharmonic.