VERONICA C. WILLIAMS

Veronica Williams  is a critically acclaimed, Austin, Texas-based mezzo-soprano known for her “thrilling instrument” and “overwhelming authority” on stage. In the Fall of 2024, Ms. Williams was a featured soloist in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, and Mozart's Vesperae Solennes de Confessore. This was her 3rd appearance with Chorus Austin and The Austin Symphony Orchestra as a favored guest soloist. Prior performances with these ensembles include The Messiah both in 2019, and 2023. Further exploring her unique interpretation of new music, Ms. Williams sang with Opera Theatre of the Rockies in Scott Davenport Richards’ Blind Injustice. In the fall season of 2022, she served as a recitalist for the Shivers Fund in Colorado Springs and Castle Of Our Skins in Boston. She also appeared as a background vocalist on Michael Bublé’s Higher tour, and performed the role of The Witch in Chicago Summer Opera’s production of Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel. In February 2022, Ms. Williams made her concert debut with Fort Worth Opera as a soloist in their prestigious Night of Black Excellence series. Previously, she was a guest artist at the American Choral Directors’ Association Conference singing the contralto solo in William Grant Still’s ...And They Lynched Him On A Tree. In 2018, she was personally invited by Maestro Sebastian Lang Lessing to join the San Antonio Symphony as their first ever Singer-In-Residence. As a result, she was the featured soloist in Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony I, Manuel De Falla’s El Amor Brujo, Beethoven’s 9th, and Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky throughout the Symphony's 2018-2019 season. Ms. Williams received her Master of Music Degree from Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music, and her Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Previous roles include Cornelia in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, the Mother in Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, Baba Yaga in Jason Tremblay's Gretel! The Musical, the titular role in Handel’s Rinaldo, Concepción in Ravel’s​ L’heure Espagnole​, the Old Prioress in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites​, Hansel in Humperdinck’s ​Hansel and Gretel​, and the title roles of Cesti’s ​Orontea​ and Eisler’s ​Die Mutter​. Currently based in Austin, Texas, Ms. Williams is an active board member of Local Opera Local Artists (LOLA), and choral educator who enjoys teaching and guiding talent in her Lake Travis Middle School and Bee Cave Middle School choirs. You can follow her journey towards international operatic success on Instagram at @kollektivkarma.