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Baritone Soloist
Handel's Messiah | National Philharmonic
"Insofar as one can steal the show of the ‘Messiah,’ the commanding baritone Jorell Williams did so — a rock-solid singer with a keen understanding of his own expressive depths." - The Washington Post
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Baritone Soloist
Belshazzar's Feast | Choeur-St. Laurent
"The Toronto baritone Jorell Williams was remarkable in the difficult a cappella passages, which required at once intonation precision on disjointed intervals, projection, and nobility." - Ludwig van Montréal
Baritone Soloist
Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem | Omaha Symphony
"Both Wakim and baritone Jorell Williams, featured in the third and sixth movements, sang without benefit of microphones. Williams sang with clarity, depth and authority in the sixth movement's pivotal passage, 'Siehe, ich sage euch ein Geheimnis' ('Lo! I tell you a mystery')." - Omaha World-Herald
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Baritone Soloist
Handel's Israel in Egypt | Caelis Academy Ensemble & Ottawa Baroque Consort
"Of note were sopranos Ellen McAteer and Linda Tsatsanis and baritones Clarence Frazer and Jorell Williams. In both cases, the soloists made good use of ornamentation... In the baritone duet 'The Lord Is a Man of War,' the audience was impressed with the singers' sense of line in long, melismatic passages." - La Scena Musicale
Baritone Soloist
Abyssinian Mass | Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
"The soloists from the choir of the Chorale le Chateau sing their parts flawlessly—from Marvin Lowe's gloriously twilit tenor to Christine Fanuel's clear, bright soprano in 'Devotional' to the gravitas of Jorell Williams' bass and Nicole Phifer's dark satin alto—and every voice is lifted to the rarefied realm." - Jazz da Gama