Belinda Williams (mezzo-soprano) read English at Warwick, and continued her studies at ENO, Trinity College of Music, and privately with Yvonne Minton. Belinda recently started on the Opera Course at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is taught by Ryland Davies and supported by RAM and Countess of Munster Trust awards. Belinda is a Britten-Pears Young Artist, and a 2010-11 Tillett Trust Young Artist, the latter entitling her to a recent debut recital at the Wigmore Hall.

This year, Belinda made her Grange Park Opera debut as 'Princess Linette' in Prokofiev's The Love for 3 Oranges, directed by David Fielding and conducted by Leo Hussain.

Her operatic roles include: 'Dorabella' Così fan tutte, and 'L'Enfant' L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (both at the Actors' Church, Covent Garden), 'Baba the Turk' The Rake's Progress (directed by Mike Ashman at Blackheath Halls), 'The Sorceress' Dido and Aeneas (Southbank Sinfonia), 'Popova' The Bear, 'Giacinta' La Finta Semplice,'Cherubino'(Aldeburgh), 'Mère Jeanne' Dialogues des Carmélites (TCM, dir. Bill Bankes-Jones), and 'Hansel'. She has appeared as a recitalist at notable venues such as St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Cheltenham Pump Rooms and Handel House. Belinda also regularly sings as an oratorio soloist, with credits including the Bach St John Passion conducted by Richard Egarr at the Old Royal Naval College Chapel Greenwich. Other recent events include representing the UK in a week of masterclasses with Montserrat Caballé in Zaragoza, and making her BBC Radio 4 debut singing 'Mary, Mother of God' on Good Friday in Sasha Johnson-Manning's Daughters of Jerusalem with words by Carol-Ann Duffy.

Future concert dates and information can be found at www.belindawilliams.co.uk.