Tom Williams is a London-based choral conductor and speaker on music. He is the founder/director of award-winning chamber choir, The Erebus Ensemble, with whom he has performed around 40 concerts across the UK and Europe. The group was Ensemble-in-Residence at the Bristol Proms at Bristol Old Vic, through which the collaboration resulting in tonight’s Messiah came about.

In addition to Messiah, Tom has worked with Bristol Old Vic’s celebrated Artistic Director, Tom Morris, on several projects including a staged production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and the last night of the 2015 Bristol Proms, Songs of Hope, which featured six new 40-part commissions as well as Tallis’ monumental Spem in alium.

Tom is currently the Director of Music at St Matthew’s, Kensington Olympia, and prior to this was the choral director at St Martin-in-the-Fields where he conducted the iconic church choir in the major church liturgies, on tours to Paris, Amsterdam and Johannesburg, and on two acclaimed discs. He has conducted choirs in liturgy and in concert on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM and Scala Radio.

Tom is much in demand as a speaker and has given talks on a range of subjects including the use of allegory in the music of the Eton Choirbook and the Tintinnabuli style of Arvo Pärt. He frequently leads choral workshops and has done so across the UK and in several European cities. He is the Artistic Director of the Clifton International Festival of Music, which takes place in Bristol in June each year.