Welcome
“William Vann avoids any suggestion of bombast or sentimentality, and builds Parry’s great paragraphs so eloquently and with such assurance that you’d think he’d been conducting this music all his life.” Gramophone
Welcome to the website of British conductor and pianist William Vann. A multiple prize-winning accompanist and accomplished choral, orchestral and operatic conductor, William is also the Artistic Director of the London English Song Festival, the Director of Music at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Chorus Master of The Grange Festival, the Musical Director of Dulwich Choral Society and the Musical Director of The London Chorus.
On this site you can find out his latest news and where he is performing next, watch videos and get in touch. Concert promoters can dowload biographical information and photos from the Press Centre.
Latest News
#Judith2019
I’m hugely excited to be conducting a revival and recording of Parry’s first oratorio Judith at Royal Festival Hall next April. It is a work that has been largely neglected for the best part of a century and never recorded. This will be a large undertaking and a hugely important event in the modern revival of Parry’s music, and […]
Recording at Potton Hall
I’m hugely looking forward to recording Alan Charlton’s masterful song cycle The Cloud, setting Percy Bysshe Shelley’s wonderful poem, with April Fredrick at Potton Hall on Monday and Tuesday. It’s been an immensely challenging but hugely rewarding piece to get to grips with, and Potton Hall’s other-worldly location will be the perfect backdrop for a piece […]