Will Dawes is the Director of Chapel Music at Somerville College, Oxford, and Director of Music at the church of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford. He is a graduate of Edinburgh University and the Royal Academy of Music where he studied Choral Conducting and Singing under the guidance of Paddy Russill. He is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, an award offered to past students of the Academy for a distinguished and significant contribution to the music profession, and has worked with choirs all over the world, including in Auckland, Shenzhen, Mumbai, Guanajuato, Ramallah, and numerous venues across the USA.

In the UK, he has directed the BBC Singers, the Eric Whitacre Singers, and the chorus of Ludus Baroque. He has also been the director of numerous excellent choral societies and chamber choirs, including Henley Choral Society, Bath Choral Society, the Orlando Chamber Choir, Edinburgh Camerata, and Ensemble 45. In 2014 he became the founding Director of Frideswide Voices (Oxford's first liturgical choir for 7–14 year-old girls), which in 2019 became the the girls choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Will started singing aged 4 as part of the Berkshire Young Musicians Trust and was then a chorister at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. He is now active as a consort singer and is a member of the internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble Stile Antico. The group performs all over the globe, including regular concerts at Wigmore Hall, Boston Early Music Festival, and at the BBC Proms. The group has won numerous international awards (including two Gramophone awards) and has been nominated for three GRAMMYs, performing at the 2020 awards ceremony in Madison Square Garden. He is a former Lay Clerk of Christ Church, Oxford, and has sung with the BBC Singers, The Cardinall’s Musick, Collegium Vocale Gent, Dunedin Consort, Gabrieli Consort, Eric Whitacre Singers, Tenebrae, and Polyphony.