Roderick Williams studied music and composition at Oxford University. Alongside a successful performing career as a baritone soloist, he has also developed a strong reputation as a composer. Encompassing opera, instrumental, vocal, and choral music, his works have been commissioned and performed by such groups as The Sixteen. the BBC Singers, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and soloists including Sally Matthews, James Rutherford, and Susan Bullock. His music has been heard at Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, the Southbank Centre, and on BBC Radio.