Re-Member: Huw Williams
Huw Williams being grilled ...
Today Huw Williams is being grilled…
Huw, tell us a little bit about yourself and how long you’ve been at Highfields Church.
I’m a conductor and musician and am married to Alison. I started coming to Highfields originally when I was a student at the age of 18 and, bar a two year stint in Glasgow doing a postgrad’course, I have been here ever since. So that’s about 17 years in all.
Excellent. What did you study?
I studied music at Cardiff School of Music, Cardiff Uni, and then I did a Masters in Conducting Studies at the RSAMD (Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama) in Glasgow.
Can you tell us a little of how you became a Christian?
It sort of all happened when I was about 16/17 years old, after a very colourful teenage-hood. I was in sixth-form at the time
and was heavily into existentialism and philosophy and so I read a lot of Jean-Paul Satre. I was caught between the meaninglessness of life, that Satre was a great believer in, and the allure of the gospel, that my parents believed. I realised only one of them could be true with no middle ground: life was either utterly meaningless or I could live for Christ. And so I soughtto find out. I read through three volumes of Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones on Romans, and by the time I’d got to chapter 3 of Romans, I was convinced that the Bible was true and that I needed to be saved.
Amazing! So what do you have planned for the future, Huw?
Well, me and Alison, who works for UCCF in Wales, are both hoping one day to head out to Europe in some mission capacity,
working with students overseas.
Just to finish off, name me three of the most interesting people you’ve ever met.
Oo, that’s a toughy… I think in the music scene, people like Brabbins, a conductor on the
world stage and my conducting teacher, is incredibly interesting. Michael Ward, from a
theological point-of-view, due to his extensive knowledge on C. S. Lewis, and then generally,
the Sultan of Oman. Incredible character doing a lot for music in his country.
Huw, thank you! That’s great.
You can find Huw either at church on a Sunday or conducting the RSO on Saturday 24th April at Highfields Church.
