A renowned interpreter of Bach, he will perform in 2024-2025 season with the Orchestra of the Bach Festival in Montreal, various Ensembles Arte frizzante, Continuum, Il Gardellino, Les Ambassadeurs, Gli Angeli, The Franco-British countertenor William Shelton will also make his debut at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse in the Voyage d’Automne creation, by Bruno Mantovani and will then embody the tole of Nireno, in Haendel’s Giulio Cesare.

We will also heard him in Haendel’s Messia with Gli Angeli, the recovery of the Carmen Case at the Opera de Limoges or in his program « Une Vénitienne à Paris » with Salomé Gasselin and Léo Brunet.

For several years now, William Shelton has been a regular guest soloist with French ensembles such as Pygmalion, Le Poème Harmonique, the Orchestre national Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Les Ambassadeurs, Alia Mens, les Cris de Paris, L'Escadron volant de la Reine, the Caravansérail, bus also abroad : Vox Luminis, Collegium Vocale Gent, Balthasar Neumann Ensemble & Chor, La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Musica Getutscht, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Freiburger Bachchor, A Nocte Temporis, Continuum or Gli Angeli.

On stage, he created the role of the President in the show Carmen Case, by the composer Diana Soh and based on Bizet's opera, at the Opera de Bordeaux and the Theatre du Luxembourg, sang Messaggiera (Euridice by Caccini) with Scherzi Musicali in Brussels and Timisoara (Romania), Arsamene (Händel's Serse) with Opera Fuoco in China (Beijing, Shen-Zhen and Nanjing) and Apollo (Locke's Psyche) with Ensemble Correspondances (Opéra de Versailles, Caen and Théâtre d'Hardelot).

A keen chamber musician, in 2023 he won the Duo Prize at the Concours international de la mélodie française de Toulouse with pianist Louis Dechambre; in 2020 he also won the Prix de l'Opéra Grand Avignon at the Gordes mélodies competition, with pianist Bastien Dollinger; They were subsequently invited to give recitals at Avignon Opera as part of the Apér'Opéra series, and as part of the "Jeunes Talents" programme at the Petit Palais in Paris. This season, in the company of the theorbist Léo Brunet and the gambist Salomé Gasselin, he will perform “Une Vénitienne à Paris”, a program based on the remarkable life of the composer Antonia Bembo, before recording it for Oktav Records.

He has been an Artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel since 2021 and has had the opportunity to receive guidance from Sophie Koch, José Van Dam, and Stéphane Degout; William Shelton was previously a member of the first cast of young singers at the Académie Philippe Jaroussky in 2017.

He is the winner of several international competitions: "Young Artist Award" at the Cesti Baroque Opera Competition in Innsbruck, 2nd Prize at the Froville Baroque Singing Competition, 1st Prize at the Boulder Bach Festival's "World Bach Competition", Audience Prize and "Jeunes Talents" Prize at the Corneille Competition in Rouen (Andreas Scholl as chairman).

William Shelton is represented by RSB Artists since 2022.