Scott Williamson is General and Artistic Director of Opera Roanoke, succeeding MET opera conductor, Steven White. An Associate Conductor, Chorus Master, and artist with western Virginia's premiere opera company since 1998, he conducted Rigoletto, Noye’s Fludde, The Old Maid and the Thief, and appeared with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra for Gala concerts in 2006 & 2007. He was associate conductor for productions of La Boheme, Lucia di Lammermoor, L’elisir d’amore, La Cenerentola, Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto, La Traviata and Le Nozze di Figaro. He has conducted the Connecticut Choral Society Orchestra, the New England Symphonic Ensemble, the Westminster Community Orchestra, the University Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra, and the Masterworks Orchestra. He was Artistic Director of the Virginia Chorale from 2008-2011, where his programs were consistently acclaimed for their ingenuity and accomplishment. He has prepared choruses for Joseph Flummerfelt, Vance George, Uwe Gronostay, Donald Nally, and among others, Wolfgang Sawallisch. An acclaimed tenor, Williamson was the winner of the Center for Contemporary Opera’s 2005 competition and was featured in a solo recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in 2007. He has appeared with Tulsa Opera, Sarasota Opera, Lake George Opera, Bronx Opera, Opera Roanoke, and in Britain with the New Kent Opera Festival, the Snape Proms, and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. In concert, he has sung with the American Symphony Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort, Folger Consort, Hartford Symphony, Maryland Symphony, Saint Thomas Church (NY), The National Chorale, and the Orchestra of the 17th century. 2009 marked his fifth appearance at the acclaimed Bard Music Festival. Stage credits include the title character in Gounod’s Faust, Alfredo in La Traviata, Iro in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, Agenore in Mozart’s Il Re Pastore, Armand in Massenet’s Thérèse, Handel’s Acis, and the Magician in Menotti’s The Consul. Concert appearances have included Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, all three Bach Evangelists, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem, Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Saint Nicolas, and theWar Requiem. His performances have been praised by the New York Times, the Times of London, Opera News, the Washington Post, and the Baltimore Sun. As a professional ensemble singer, he has appeared with New York’s premiere choruses under the batons of such distinguished conductors as Levine, Maazel, Masur, Salonen, Hickox, Rilling, Botstein and Sawallisch.
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