Born in 1971 in Swansea, South Wales and a fluent Welsh speaker, Huw Williams was Organ Scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge before studying at the Royal Academy of Music and in Holland. He became Assistant Organist at Hereford Cathedral and was closely involved with the Three Choirs Festival there. In 1998 he moved to St Paul’s Cathedral where he worked for 10 years with the world-famous cathedral choir both as accompanist and conductor. As the principal organist at the cathedral he played for major recordings and broadcasts, including state and national services such as the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Service, broadcast live on Television around the world.

Huw Williams has performed as an organ soloist in Canada, USA, Europe and the UK. Recent recitals have been given in New York, St George’s Chapel, Windsor, Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, the Netherlands, Toronto and Colorado. He made two solo recordings at St Paul’s Cathedral: Christmas Organ Music from St Paul’s and Organ Spectacular which received Gramophone magazine’s Editor’s Choice award. Gramophone described it as a spectacular that lives up to the description. He will shortly release a new recording on the Mander Organ in Peachtree Road United Methodists Church, Atlanta. He has made eighteen recordings as accompanist with St Paul’s and Hereford Cathedrals and The Sixteen and broadcast live on television and radio around the world. He has performed and recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, National Orchestra of Wales, City of London Sinfonia, London Mozart Players and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Forthcoming concerts include appearances in Paris, Edinburgh and Washington DC.

Huw took up his post as Director of Music at the Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr near Philadelphia in April 2008. Since then he has directed performances of Brahms Requiem, Rutter Requiem, Bernstein Chichester Psalms and Britten’s Ceremony of Carols. The choir will be touring the UK this summer and performing at Westminster Abbey, Canterbury, Hereford, Gloucester and Lincoln cathedrals. At Redeemer he directs a growing music programme and conducts the seven choirs and over eighty singers in a busy schedule of services and concerts. The choirs have also featured on two recordings in recent months, including a selection of Christmas music due for release in the Fall of 2009.