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| Angharad Morgan was born in South Wales and began singing at an early age. She is a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where she was awarded a full scholarship in 2000. During her time at the college she was also the recipient of the Valetta Jacobi Award for Sopranos, the Lee Freeman Memorial Scholarship and the Russell Sheppard Memorial Scholarship. In 2003 Angharad won the title of Vale Singer of the Year.
Her extensive choral experience has taken her from the National Youth Choir of Wales to a scholarship with the BBC National Chorus of Wales, which has given her the opportunity to work under the direction of eminent conductors such as Martyn Brabbins, Leonard Slatkin and the late Richard Hickox. She is also a founder member of Serendipity Singers who tour regularly and have performed at the Beaulieu Sur Mer Festival, France, following which they launched their debut CD ‘Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam’.
Operatic credits include ‘Sandman’ in Humperdink’s Hansel and Gretel, ‘Sister Blanche’ in Poulenc’s Dialogue of the Carmelites, ‘Lucia’ in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, ‘First Lady’ in Mozart’s ‘Die Zauberflöte, ‘Miss Wordsworth’ in Britten’s Albert Herring and 'The Innkeepers Wife' in The Cunning Little Vixen by Janáček for RWCMD, Belinda in Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’ for the Gower Chorale, and Donna Elvira in Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ for the Opera School of Wales. Angharad has worked on Welsh National Opera’s production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and most recently their production of Turandot, which was highly praised by both audiences and critics alike.
Angharad has performed in a variety of venues both home and abroad and is renowned for her versatility and wide ranging repertoire. On the concert platform Angharad has had the opportunity to work with some of Wales’ most prestigious musical ensembles and soloists including duetting with Elin Manahan Thomas at St David’s Hall. She has recently returned from a Jersey where she was studying under the tutelage of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.
Her concert and oratorio experience includes Brahms Requiem, Mozart Mass in C Minor, Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Requiem, Mass in C, Exsultate Jubilate, Handel Messiah, Dixit Dominus, Haydn Maria Theresa Mass, Dvorak Requiem, Faure Requiem, Vivaldi Gloria, Rutter Requiem and Magnificat.
Angharad studies with Dennis O’Neill and is currently seeking funding as she has been awarded a place at the Wales International Academy of Voice.
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| Annette was born in the village of Deiniolen in Gwynedd, in which she still resides. Annette graduated at the Royal Northern College of Music in, she then joined the Music Department of the University of Wales, Bangor as a piano tutor to students following B.A. and B.Mus. degree courses. Annette has regularly accompanied many of Wales Top Opera Stars Bryn Terfel, Rebecca Evans, Jason Howard to name but a few, both at home and abroad.Annette has accompanied at the Albert Hall, London on several occasions and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sir George Solti, Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana have been amongst her private audiences.
She has worked regularly with Welsh National Opera for the last three years with the MAX Dept, and is currently performing as a soloist in a series of six Mass Male Voice Choir concerts throughout the North West at venues such as Liverpool Empire, Palace Theatre - Manchester and Grand Opera House, York.
Annette made her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2005, and performing there has now become an annual event in her busy schedule.
Annette has been the musical director of Cor y Traeth Male Voice Choir in Anglesey since 2002, and is one of the founders and director of the William Mathias Centre in Caernarfon. Annette has recorded and produced over forty CD's, accompanying Welsh and International singers and choirs, and produced Bryn Terfel and Rhys Meirion's CD 'Benedictus', which was nominated for an award at the Classical Brit Awards 2006.
Annette is also one half of the popular Piano/Harp Duo 'Piantel' with harpist Dylan Cernyw. They have recently released an album together. |
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| The distinguished young baritone Anthony Stuart Lloyd is from Cardiff. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and after winning the Sir Geraint Evans Scholarship gained a place at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where other awards and accolades soon followed including: Royal National Eisteddfod Blue Riband, a National Mozart Competition prize, an Arts Council of Wales Young Welsh Singers Competition prize at St. David's Hall, The Morriston Orpheus Choir MOCSA Young Welsh Singers competition and the inaugural Sir Geraint Evans Memorial Prize. Anthony is also a recipient of a Walton Foundation Award enabling him to attend the Il Cantante Attore course at the composer's estate in Ischia, Italy.
Welsh National Opera, recognizing the immense potential of the young Welsh artist soon cast him in several roles, including Timur - Turandot, Bartolo - Le Nozze di Figaro, Basilio - Il Barber di Siviglia, Commendatore - Don Giovanni, Gran Sacerdote - Nabucco, Bonze - Madam Butterfly and La Voce - Idomeneo.
His Vocal talent drew him to the attention of continental Europe where he sang at Freiburg Opera initially where his roles included: Leporello - Don Giovanni (for which he was nominated, with special acclaim, as the best newcomer in the region on the Opernwelt Jahrbuch magazine), The King of Clubs - The Love for Three Oranges, Mephistopheles - Faust, and Selim - Il Turco in Italia and for Toulouse Capitole Opera, Mercure and Chef Greque - Les Troyens, under the baton of Michel Plasson. Anthony's vocal versatility has also seen him make his West End debut as Jacob in Lloyds Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Concert performances throughout the UK include: Brander - La Damnation de Faust with Kent Nagano at the helm, and the Les Troyens (roles as above) under Sir Colin Davies for The London Symphony Orchestra, Mozart Mass in C Minor and Bruckner Te Deum with The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 and Dvorak Te Deum with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, for the Welsh Proms, the title role in Mendelssohn's Elijah with the National Chamber Orchestra of Wales and Gower Chorale, Bach Magnificat and Mozart Requiem with the Westwood Chamber Orchestra and Rossini Stabat Mater and Beethoven Mass in C for the Royal National Eisteddfod, broadcast on S4C.
For HM The Sultan of Oman's 30th Jubilee Royal Command Performance, Anthony was invited to give the first ever vocal performance at the Bait al-Barakah Palace, with the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra, which led to a return invitation for a Grand Opera Gala at the Oman Auditorium, Al Bustan Palace Hotel, Muttrah.
Anthony's numerous BBC and S4C television appearances have included: the title role in Hughes 'Saint David' with the National Chamber Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes, a concert of sacred arias 'A Night to Remember' with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Black Bob The Little Sweep, Beti and The Orchestra with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and A Song of Celebration from St. David's Hall. Anthony's voice features as Sparafucile on the Operavox puppet animation of Rigoletto and in the feature film Twin Town. He has also supplied the speaking voice of Jisan in the feature film The Warrior.
Anthony has headlined on numerous luxury cruise liners with his one-man show Broadway Baritones. He was invited to perform for Fred. Olsen's cruise lines inaugural 'Arts Club' cruises and was the final vocalist onboard SAGA Rose's and Fred. Olsen's Black Watch recent World Cruises.
Appearances at prestigious private and corporate events include: Wales@WAFI at Dubai's Wafi City and Wales in Paris at the British Ambassador's Residency for the Welsh Assembly Government; The Wales Tourist Board's 'The Wonder of Wales' Road-show, performing at New York's Waldorf Astoria and Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room; numerous private functions at the Carlton Club, St James'; The 'Let Paul Robeson Sing' Exhibition; pre-match singing for Cardiff City FC; the official opening of Llancaiach Fawr Manor House and Cardiff Bay Development Corporations 'The Emerging Vision' in the presence of the late Diana Princess of Wales.
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| Dylan Resides in Colwyn Bay and was educated at Creuddyn School, Llandudno. He received tuition by many recognised Harp tutors in Wales - Gwennant Pyrs, Dafydd Huw and Robin James Jones.
Dylan has won in the National Eisteddfod in 1989, 1991 and 1994, and was also a winner in the Gerdd Dant Festival in 1992.
Around Wales he is a well known Accompanist and is always in demand at different Festivals. He is resident Harpist for Bodnant Gardens, North Wales and Plas Tan Y Bwlch, Maentwrog - two very popular and award winning venues.
A well known concert entertainer in Wales, Dylan has also travelled abroad - France, Germany, Holland, Canada, Prague, Switzerland, Edinburgh, Paris and Ireland as a Harp Soloist and Accompanist, appearing and broadcasting on the BBC network.
Dylan appeared in the 1,000 Voices Festival at the Royal Albert Hall, where he was Guest Soloist in 1997 and shared the platform with Soprano Rebecca Evans. Other Soloists he has accompanied and shared platforms with include Bryn Terfel, Eirian James, Katherine Jenkins, Hayley Westenra, Shan Cothi, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Rhys Meirion, John Eifion, and Annette Bryn Parri to name but a few.
He made his debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2005 and performing there is now an annual event in his diary. He is also engaged in a Mass Welsh Male Voice Choir Concert tour, appearing as a Soloist throughout the North West in theatres including Liverpool Empire and Palace Theatre, Manchester.
Dylan enjoys all kinds of music from light to classical,songs from the shows to current chart songs, and of course, Cerdd Dant. He has released 3 CD's with the record comapny Sain. The first was released in 2000, the second in 2002 and the thrid in 2004. In 2006 he released yet another album with his "Piantel" partner Annette Bryn Parri. These are all listed on his CV. |
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| Having gained his BMus from the University of Wales, Bangor, Gareth went on to the Guildhall, School of Music and Drama to train as a tenor with David Pollard. Whilst there he attained the highest Final Recital Mark in his year. He was then accepted on to the Opera School and performed many roles including Bardolfo (Falstaff), Song seller (Tabbaro), Gerrardo (Gianni Schicchi), H.R.H. Prince Phillipe (The Dinner Engagement), Basilio/Curzio (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Flamand (Capriccio). He also covered Lenski (Eugene Onegin) and sang the part of the Mayor (Albert Herring) for British Youth Opera.
It was during his time in Guildhall that he won the Osborne Roberts Memorial prize as best soloist (under 25yrs) and the David Lloyd Memorial prize as Most Promising Tenor, both at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
Since leaving the Guildhall he has sung Don Jose (Carmen) for Opra Cymru, cover of Rodolpho (Luisa Miller) Buxton Festival Opera, Jupiter (Semele) for Winterbourne Opera and Nemorino (L’Elisir D’Amore) for Swansea City Opera. At English National Opera he has sung Vimconte Cascada (Merry Widow), Beppe (Pagliacci), Pang (Turandot) and covered the Italian Singer (Der Rosenkavalier) and Nanki-Poo (The Mikado).
His Recital and Oratorio engagements have taken him to many prestigious Festivals and Venues from the Cadogan Hall, London to Johannesburg, South Africa and his vocal versatility allows him to sing a variety of Sacred repertoire from Bach’s Evangelist to Verdi’s Requiem.
Future engagements include Apprentice and cover of Zorn (Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg) for Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
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| Huw is an actor and singer from Caerphilly. He has starred in numerous television productions over the years, and is probably most associated with the role of "Darren" in the popular Welsh soap 'Pobol Y Cwm' for which he won a BAFTA Cymru 'Best Actor' award in 2005.
Huw has had a successful singing career. He won the "Osborne Roberts Scholarship" (Blue Ribbon Under 25) at the Anglesey National Eisteddfod in 1999. He won the "Jon Award" in 1998, as well as the "Tom Tomos Award" for most promising Bass at the Bridgend National Eisteddfod. The highlight of his singing career so far was winning the "David Ellis Award" (Blue Ribbon over 25) at the Ebbw Vale National Eisteddfod in 2010.
Huw had the pleasure of participating in the London International Masterclasses under the tuiton of the world famous Tenor Dr. Stuart Burrows.
Huw recently returned from a national UK tour with Only Men Aloud. |
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| Born in Birmingham, Jennifer displayed an exceptional talent for music at an early age. She graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with the highest possible honours in July 2006, winning almost all of the college’s prizes for both performance and academia. She subsequently completed her Masters degree in performance at RWCMD, supported by a full scholarship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and has won numerous prestigious prizes, including the Russel Sheppard Memorial Scholarship, Geraint Evans Scholarship and the Prize of the Province of Noord Brabant in the International Vocal Concours in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (Holland).
Jennifer has made her solo debut at many of the UK’s leading concert venues and has recorded several solos for BBC Radio 3, including First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Operatic credits include the title role in the World Premiere of Brian Irvine’s The Tailor’s Daughter for the Youth Company of Welsh National Opera, the title role in Cendrillon (Massanet), Micaela (Carmen- Bizet) for the Lyric Musical Society and Denise (Veronique – Messager) for Buxton Festival Opera; the lead soprano role in ‘The Journey’ (Richard Barnard), a new oratorio commissioned by Welsh National Opera.
On the concert platform she has recently performed Brahms Requiem for Cranford Choral Society; Haydn’s Nelson Mass with the English Symphony Orchestra; Handel’s Messiah, Bach Johannes Passion and a series of concerts for Live Music Now!
In addition to performance, Jennifer is also an experienced workshop leader and animateur. In a wide variety of singing, composition and multi-arts projects she has worked with people of all ages to increase awareness of opera and to encourage singing and musical knowledge.
Jennifer will be performing the role of Cousin in Madam Butterfly, for Grange Park Opera in the Spring/Summer of 2012.
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| John-Colyn Gyeantey studied at the RCM and the National Opera Studio as a Peter Moores Foundation Major Scholar. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Accademia Rossiniana, where he worked closely with Alberto Zedda.
Concert appearances include the title role in Thomas Arne’s Judgment of Paris at the Wigmore Hall, a performance with Sir Thomas Allen as a Samling Scholar, Carmina Burana, Messiah, St Matthew Passion for Spanish TV, Mozart Requiem (RAH), Mahler Das Klagende Lied with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski (RFH), Haydn Creation at the Cairo Opera House and Haydn Stabat Mater recorded for Luxembourg Radio.
Operatic roles include Zefirino Il viaggio a Reims, Adelberto (cover) Adelaide di Borgogna (both for the Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro); Alberto L’occasione fa il ladro (OperaMinima); Beppe Pagliacci (OperaUpClose); Gernando/Ubaldo in Rossini’s Armida (St. John’s, Smith Square); Judge in Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane, recorded for Virgin/EMI with the LPO and Vladimir Jurowski; Camille de Rosillon The Merry Widow (Scottish Opera); Nemorino L’elisir d’amore (Anghiari Festival, Tuscany); Count Almaviva The Marriage of Figaro by Portugal (Bampton Classical Opera). At Glyndebourne, he won the Erich Vietheer Memorial Prize and covered Don Ramiro La Cenerentola, Art Knight Crew. For Garsington, he has covered Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress. Other roles include Tamino The Magic Flute (Swansea City Opera); Sportin’ Life Porgy and Bess Suite (Cheltenham Festival).
Future engagements will include covering Count Almaviva Barber of Seville for Welsh National Opera, reviving the role of The Count in Portugal’s Figaro for Bampton at the Buxton Opera Festival, and singing an Apprentice Die Meistersinger for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden
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| Kate is an accomplished soloist who has made her name on the operatic and concert platform. During her career she has worked extensively with the Welsh National Opera as well as Glyndebourne, English National Opera, Wexford Festival Opera and Swansea City Opera. She has recently worked with the Welsh poet laureate, Gwyneth Lewis on a new commission for Welsh National Opera in which she took the lead role.
She has won numerous awards and has given literally hundreds of concerts and recitals across Great Britain and worked in the majority of the UK’s concert halls and Cathedrals including the Wigmore Hall, Festival Hall and Purcell rooms, St David’s Hall, Cardiff, the Colston Hall, Bristol and the Kennedy Centre, Washington D.C. She has also been a guest at the Music Festivals of Llangollen, Cheltenham and the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. Her versatility and engaging personality ensures that she remains one of Wales’ most popular concert artists.
This year’s engagements include performances at the Fairfield Hall, a new role for Welsh National Opera by the Welsh composer, Mervyn Burch and two cruises when she will join Richard Baker for his Music Festivals at Sea.
Kate has more recently made a name as a vocal animateur and choral conductor and has run many community singing projects involving adults and children for Welsh National Opera. Last year she conducted the first Welsh performance of “On The Rim of The World” a new work by Orlando Gough commissioned by the UK’s National Opera Companies. This year she will conduct another new work for Welsh National Opera’s community choir and join The Royal Opera House and Opera Holland Park as a vocal animateur.
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| Originally from Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, Llio recently awarded her MA in
Music Performance at the RWCMD, Cardiff (generously funded by the
James Pantyfedwen Trust, the Russell Sheppard Trust, the Seary
Charitable Trust and the Welsh Livery Guild). She studies with her vocal
tutor, Suzanne Murphy, and receives coaching from Michael Pollock and
Jeffrey Howard. During her time at RWCMD she received many awards
and in 2008 she was chosen to represent both the College and the
National Assembly as a soloist in China, performing in the ‘Discover
Wales’ exhibition and in many receptions in Chongqing and Beijing.
Llio has also been successful outside College, having won the Operatic
Solo and the Blue Riband under 25 (Osborne Roberts Memorial Award)
in the National Eisteddfod, the under 25 solo and Pam Weaver
scholarship at the Urdd Eisteddfod and the Solo for singers 21 and over
in the Llangollen International Eisteddfod. In August this year she was
runner-up in the W. Towyn Roberts Scholarship Cometition at the
National Eisteddfod in Wrexham and in September she was a finalist in
the MOCSA Young Welsh Singer of the Year Competition which took
place in the Orangery, Margam Park. She is also a winner of the Russell
Sheppard Memorial Award and the Welsh Association of Male Voice
Choirs Music Award.
Her operatic roles include Pamina (Magic Flute) and Susanna (The
Marriage of Figaro) with Opera’r Ddraig, and Sophie (Der
Rosenkavalier), Marzelline (in scenes from Beethoven’s operas: Fidelio
and Leonore) and Flora (Turn of the Screw) in scenes from opera at the
RWCMD. Other roles have included The Professor’s Daughter (The
Nightingale and the Rose - a new opera by Thomas Ffloyd) for Rogue
Opera Company, and The Dragon (Cofi Opera - a new opera by Owain
Llwyd) for the Arts Council of Wales. In September this year, Llio made
her first appearance with British Youth Opera (BYO) as a member of the
chorus and understudying the 1st Bridesmaid in Le Nozze di Figaro. She
is also a BBC National Chorus of Wales Scholar, and was chosen in
2009 to sing the solo in Arwel Hughes’ cantata, Gweddi, in Hoddinott
Hall, conducted by the composer’s son, Owain Arwel Hughes. In 2010,
Llio appeared as a soloist in the Wales Festival of Remembrance
alongside tenor, Wynne Evans, in St David’s Hall.
Future Plans include appearing as a soloist with Llanelli MVC on their
tour of Holland and filming a role in episodes of Nine Stories High for
WNO Max in Spring 2012. |
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| Mae Heydorn, a Swedish-German mezzo soprano, is a post-graduate scholarship student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama studying with Susan Waters and Rudolf Piernay.
She completed her B.Mus (Hons) at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, achieving a First Class Degree, generously supported by the GSMD and the Anglo-Swedish Society.
In November 2009 a Messiah performance marked Mae’s debut at Cadogan Hall with the English Chamber Orchestra. 2009 also saw her debuting for Clonter Opera in Rigoletto. In February she won first prize at the British Schubert Society’s Lied Duo Competition and she was selected for the Making Music Philip & Dorothy Green Award 2010.
Spring/summer 2010 Mae sang in Verdi’s Macbeth at Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and appeared as a soloist with the Southbank Sinfonia for a performance of Britten’s Phaedra in St. John’s Waterloo.
Mae sings for Live Music Now! with her duo partner, pianist Diana Brekalo, working throughout the country to bring live music to the UK’s welfare, educational, justice and health sectors. The duo were awarded a scholarship to study with eminent Tenor Christoph Prégardien and have performed at the Internationales Musikfest in Stuttgart. In Spring 2009 they were finalists at the International Lied Student Duo Competition in the Netherlands. The duo creates workshops and performances for children at the Wigmore Hall.
In January and February 2011 Mae is giving recitals with pianist Sholto Kynoch in St. Martin in the Fields and for Oxford Music. In March she returns to Glyndebourne for a second season.
Mae is supported by the City of London Cooperation and the Worshipful Company of Paviors
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| After graduating in choral conducting from the St Petersburg State conservatoire in 2005, Russian-born Maria Kozlova came to Glasgow's Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama to study under Patricia Hay in their Alexander Gibson Opera School. During the course she won Tony and Tania Webster prize for Russian Song (April 2007) and Ye Cronies Opera Award (May 2009). She has recently graduated with distinction from the Master of Opera course, for which the majority of funding was granted by the Dewar Arts Awards.
Her operatic credits include: Eugene Onegin (Tatyana) - P.Tchaikovsky (Glasgow's Theatre Royal and Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Jan 2008); L'amour de trois oranges (Nicolette) - S.Prokofiev (Glasgow's Theatre Royal and Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Jan 2009); Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Antonia) - Offenbach, (RSAMD, June 2009); War and Peace (Natasha Rostova) - the world premiere of the original version of S.Prokofiev's opera (Glasgow's Theatre Royal and Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Jan 2010); Opera Gala concert at Clonter opera (November 2009) and understudying the role of Lady Macbeth's Lady-in-Waiting in G.Verdi's Macbeth at Glyndebourne Opera Festival 2010.Previously she was a guest performer at The Aberdeen International Music Festival (August 2009).
Her concert repertoire includes: C Minor Mass, Coronation Mass (W.A.Mozart); Messiah (G.F. Handel); B-minor mass (J.S. Bach); Stabat Mater (G.B.Pergolesi); Gloria (A.Vivaldi); Petite Messe Solennelle (G.Rossini); Mass in D major (A.Dvořák); Mass in A flat major (F.Schubert); The Bells (S.Rahmaninov); Vier Letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs, R. Strauss); Requiem (G.Fauré); Das klagende Lied (G.Mahler) etc. |
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| Meriel Andrew was born in Ciliau Aeron. After teaching English for six years she decided to study at the Royal Northern College of Music. In her final recital last year she was awarded a PPRNCM with distinction. Prizes have included the John Ireland Competition and The London Welsh Singer of the year. Roles performed include Pamina, Mimi, the Governess and Romilda (Xerxes at the Queen Elizabeth Hall), and she has recently covered the Countess for Diva Opera. Oratorio appearances have included The Messiah, Mozart's Requiem and A Child of Our Time. Currently Meriel can be heard as the singing voice of Rachel Griffiths in the motion picture 'Very Annie-Mary' Meriel is a member of the Welsh National Opera chorus. |
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| Michel was born in Petropolis Brazil and recently completed a Masters Degree in Opera with distinction at the RSAMD. He started studying music at Canarinhos de Petropolis boys’ choir later graduating in Organ from the School of Music, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he also continued to study singing. Subsequently he worked with the tenor Benito Maresca in Sao Paulo. In 2007 he won first prize in the Maria Callas Vocal Competition in Sao Paulo and in 2010 in the Margaret Dick and Ye Cronies Competitions at the RSAMD. Michel has been awarded with the Independent Opera Post Graduate Voice Fellowship and is also Samling scholar. His studies were supported by an ABRSM international Scholarship.
He has performed in works such as Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat, Cantatas BWV 56, 82, 140 and 147, Mozart, Faure and Verdi’s Requiem Masses, Petit Messe Solennelle of Rossini, Monteverdi`s 1610 Vespers, Handel`s Dixit Dominus and The Messiah and Orff’s Carmina Burana . Operatic roles include Prince Andrei - War and Peace, Count Almaviva - Le Nozze di Figaro, Escamillo - Carmen, Doctor Miracle - The Tales of Hoffmann, Gaudenzio - Il Signor Bruschino, Harlequin/Musikleher - Ariadne auf Naxos, Tutor, Elektra, Wagner - Faust, 2nd prisoner - Fidelio, Servant - The Fall of the House of Usher, Marco - Gianni Schicchi, Farfarello - The Love of Three Oranges. Michel also devotes special attention to German Lieder, French chanson and Brazilian song. Recently he sang Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music with the BBC SSO in the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.
Michel is currently an Emerging Artist with Scottish Opera. His Scottish Opera engagements include Der Notar - Intermezzo and Marullo - Rigoletto.
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| Born in Durango México, Noel Hernandez began his musical studies at the age of 6, learning to play the piano with teachers Maria de la Luz Favela de Gracia, Claudio Herrera Noriega and Emilio Lluis Puebla.
His first singing training was with his father, Rosalio Hernandez Cabral before he moved to México City to study with Roberto Bañuelas, Arturo Nieto and Teresa Rodriguez.
Supported by Sociedad Internacional de Valores Artisticos de México, Noel has had the opportunity to study with a number of international artists including Joan Dorneman Dennis Masse, Fabrizio Melano, Benjamin Khan and Ruby Tagle. In the UK, he recently completed his studies with Dennis O'Neill at the Cardiff International Academy of voice (CIAV). At the Academy he also worked with Della Jones, Jane Eaglen and coaches from the Royal Opera, ENO and La Fenice, Venice.
Noel's operatic roles to date include Rodolfo in La Boheme, Nemorino in L'Elisir d'amore and Ernesto in Don Pasquale in Mexico, Spoletta Tosca in Portugal and most recently Floville in Rossini's Il Signor Bruschino in Italy. Concert and platform repertoire includes Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Messiah Handel, Stabat Mater Rossini, Coronation Mass Mozart
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| Owen was brought up in Pontlliw, South Wales. He studied at the Royal College of Music and Drama with Beatrice Unsworth where he won numerous awards. His present teacher is Stephen Roberts.
At Welsh National Opera, he was an Associate Artist and the recipient of the WNO Schäfer Bursary 2005/2006 and the WNO Chris Ball Bursary.
Roles include First Apprentice Wozzeck, Figaro (cover) The Marriage of Figaro Dancaire Carmen, baritone in Seven Deadly Sins, Schaunard La Boheme, Masetto Don Giovanni, Figaro (cover) Il barbiere di Siviglia, Marullo Rigoletto, Cappadocian Salome, 1st Officer The Carmelites, Kuligin Katya Kabanova, Helmsman Tristan und Isolde, The Official Registrar Madama Butterfly. Other roles include Sweeney Todd, Papageno The Magic Flute, Zurga The Pearlfishers, Escamillo Carmen, Guglielmo Così fan tutte, Dr. Falke Die Fledermaus, Seraphin Veronique, Lord Tristan Martha. In addition to main house productions, Owen performs and leads many workshops for WNO MAX (Education department) in both mainstream and special needs. Recent projects include Through listening eyes which was made into a DVD and won Best short film at the Calgary Film Festival in Canada and The Merman King, which has also been made into a DVD.
Recent Concert performances include at the Messiah at Gloucester Cathedral, Die Erste Walpurgis Nacht Mendelssohn at City Hall, Cardiff, soloist at opening concert for Hoddinott Hall, WMC with BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, Elijah BBC NOW, Dvorak Mass in D, Puccini Messa di Gloria, Five Mystical Songs, Carmina Burana, Dvorak Requiem, Les Nuits D’ete, Petite Messe Solennelle, Karl Jenkins’ Mass for Peace (S4C recording), St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, Christmas Oratorio, Mass in F Major, Messiah, Mozart and Fauré Requiem. Owen has recently made a solo recording entitled ‘Some Day’ and has just recorded the role of Kuligin in Katya Kabanova with Chandos.
Owen was the winner of the 1997 Morriston Orpheus Choir Subscribers Award. In 2004, Owen came runner up in De Vive Voix competition at the Festival International d’Art Lyrique de Vivonne in France.
Owen was a performer with Live Music Now! which included recitals at the Purcell Rooms, South Bank and a performance for Her Majesty The Queen at Buckingham Palace.
Future engagements include Dancaire in Carmen for WNO, Dumbworld (New Production) by Brian Irvine in Belfast, Boris Godunov St. David's Hall, Cardiff, The Song Contest (New Commission) by Mervyn Burtch for WNO, Ortel in Die Meistersinger von Nuremburg, Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos WNO 2010.
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| Piantel is an established musical duo that has been performing as soloists on harp and piano for years, and decided to combine their musical talents in 2005 to bring you Piantel. In their time together they have achieved success with a varied and wide range of experiences.
Both Dylan and Annette are extremely well known all over the country for their individual style and performances, accompanying and performing alongside some of our biggest stars: Bryn Terfel, Katherine Jenkins, Hayley Westenra, Rhys Meirion, Shan Cothi, Gwyn Hughes Jones - to name just a few. Between them they have recorded 5 solo albums with the record company Sain, and have appeared on many more recordings as accompanists. Engagements have included recitals at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2005, 2006 and will be returning again in August 2007, performances alongside Hayley Westenra in June 2006 at Venue Cymru.
2007 is very busy for Piantel. In April they will be appearing in Beaumaris; in June they will be performing in Sheffied and at the Rhyl Pavilion Theatre at a Mass Male Voice Choir Concert. In July 2007 they have been invited to perform at the 7th European Harp Symposium held at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff.
In August they have been invited to perform at the opening concert for the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Flint, then travel up to Edinburgh to commence a week of concerts at the Fringe Festival. Also in August they will be performing, once again, at the Machynlleth Festival and then returning to the Rhyl Pavilion to perform in October. These are just a few of the concerts they have arranged. A full list of concerts and booking details can be viewed through the shows diary page.
In addition to a busy recital schedule as Piantel, they have a demanding diary as soloists in their own name, performing and recording with various soloists and choirs. They have just released a new CD called Piantel, which can be purchased from our online CD shop. |
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| Welsh born Rhian Lewis graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music with distinction where she studied with Beatrice Unsworth, Audrey Hyland, Catherine Roe-Williams and Clara Taylor. Rhian is currently studying with Lillian Watson.
She has won many awards, including the Bryn Terfel Scholarship, the MOCSA Young Welsh Singer of the Year, the Osborne Roberts Scholarship, the John Fussel Memorial Prize, MBF Music Education Award, the Ryan Davies Memorial Award, Pantyfedwen Scholarship and the Thomas and Elizabeth Williams Scholarship, semi finalist if the BBC Radio 2 Kiri Te Kanawa Prize with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Rhian is also an artist on Yehudi Menuhin’s scheme Live Music Now.
She has travelled widely as a guest soloist to Spain, America, Italy and Ireland with concert performances at the Wales Millennium Centre, St David’s Hall and the Brangwyn Hall. Rhian was also invited by the Walton Festival to perform Walton’s solo soprano works in Ischia, Italy.
A former member of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera Chorus, her operatic engagements to date include Zerlina in Don Giovanni by Mozart (cover for Glyndebourne Touring Opera), Jano in Jenůfa by Janáček (Glyndebourne Touring Opera), Karolka in Jenůfa by Janáček (Cover for GTO), Nanetta in Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi (cover and performance for Glyndebourne Festival Opera), Dew Fairy in Hänsel und Gretel by Humperdinck (opening night performance and cover with GTO), Emmie in Albert Herring by Britten (cover with GFO), Pamina in The Magic Flute by Mozart (Swansea City Opera), Lidocka in Paradise Moscow by Shostakovich (RWCMD), the Young Vixen in The Cunning Little Vixen by Janáček (RWCMD), Beattie in The Ten Belles by Von Suppe (RWCMD) and Zerlina in Don Giovanni by Mozart (cover for British Youth Opera). Her operatic excerpts include Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel by Humperdinck, Ophélie in Hamlet by Thomas, Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi by Bellini (RAM excerpts, Italy) and the Governess in The Turn of the Screw by Britten.
Her Oratorio appearances to date include Mozart Requiem and Mass in C Minor, Schubert Mass in C Major, Faure Requiem, Rutter Gloria, Handel Messiah, Handel Dixit Dominus, Vivaldi Gloria (St David’s Hall), Haydn Creation Mass and In Praise of Mary by Geoffrey Bush.
Rhian has taken part in Masterclasses with Kiri Te Kanawa, Dennis O’Neill, Stuart Burrows, Larissa Gergieva, Thomas Quastoff, Roger Vignoles, Joan Rogers, Robert Tear, and Donald Maxwell.
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| Robyn Lyn Evans is from Ceredigion, Wales and is a graduate of Trinity College Carmarthen where he was awarded the Stuart Burrows bursary and also a postgraduate of the Royal College of Music, London.
Robyn’s singing career started at a young age in the Eisteddfod competitions of Wales with highlights including the National Eisteddfod of Wales scholarship, International Young Singer of the Year Llangollen International Eisteddfod, Osborne Roberts Memorial Prize, Lampeter Eisteddfod Blue Riband; ‘best tenor’ National Mozart Competition; r-up W Towyn Roberts Memorial Scholarship and culminating with the David Ellis Memorial Prize in 2007.
Following graduation from the RCM, he has been successfully pursuing a full-time singing career. Operatic rôles to date include Rodolfo, La Boheme (Opera Project); Don José, Carmen (Scottish Opera); Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly (Raymond Gubbay); Nemorino, (Swansea City Opera and Pavilion Opera); Il Duca, Rigoletto and Dr Blind, Die Fledermaus (Pavilion Opera); Tebaldo cover, I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Opera North), Gérald, Lakmé and Prince, Rusalka (Opera School Wales); Ferrando, Cosí fan tutte (Hand Made Opera); Alfredo, Die Fledermaus (Bristol Opera); Abdallo, Nabucco (Burry Port Opera) and 1st Soldier, L’incoronazzione di Poppea (RCM International Opera School).
Concert performances include Tony, West Side Story, Marco, The Gondoliers and countless oratorio performances from the works of Bach, Britten, Gounod, Handel, Haydn, Jenkins, Maunder, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Puccini, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Stainer, Verdi, Vivaldi and Weber which have taken him to such venues as the Royal Philharmonic Hall Liverpool, Usher Hall Edinburgh, St David’s Hall Cardiff, as well as guest soloist with choirs touring Europe.
In addition, he is frequently heard on radio and television as a performer as well as a vocal commentator for BBC Cymru Television and BBC Radio Cymru (Wales) and recently released his debut solo album entitled ROBYN LYN…tenor.
Future performances include Rinuccio – Gianni Schicchi – Opera Project.
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| Ros, born in Swansea, was educated in King's College, London and The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Operatic roles include Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Berta (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) and First Lady (The Magic Flute) for Welsh National Opera, Leila (Pearl Fishers) and Lady Billows (Albert Herring) for Opera de Bauge in France, Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) for Musica Rediviva in Rome and Fenena (Nabucco) for National Eisteddfod 2000. Elsewhere, Countess Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Giorgetta (Il Tabarro), Tebaldo (Don Carlos) Abigaille (Nabucco) and Anna Page in Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor. Also for WNO she has performed Mother Kite in the bilingual commission Red flight Barcud and Boris in Katerina.
Oratorio performances include Haydn's Maria Theresa, Mass in Paris, Mozart's Requiem; with NOW, Verdi's Te Deum at St David's Hall and John Rutter's Requiem performed under the baton of the composer. She has also performed Karl Jenkins' mass for the Armed Man at St. David's Hall and also as part of the composer's sixtieth birthday celebrations.
Prizes awarded include the Sir Geraint Evans Scholarship, Rowland Jones Memorial Prize, Francis Willinger Memorial Scholarship and bursaries from the Patrons of the Swansea Festival.
Ros has performed in the Basilica in Cairo and last year she returned to the Edinburgh Festival to great critical acclaim. Ros appears regularly on television and radio, most recently on on S4C's Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol and Noson Lawen, and with Dennis O'Neill on BBC TV's Masterclass series. Concert performances include Cressida in Walton's work Troillus and Cressida, Mozart's sacred work Exultate Jubilate and Britten's Les Illuminations. Recent engagements include appearances in Proms concerts with the RPO and numerous concerts with the National Chamber Orchestra of Wales.
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| Sion Goronwy was born in Bala, North Wales, and graduated with honours in History from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Subsequently he studied singing at postgraduate level at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, gaining the LGSM diploma in 1998. He became the Legal and General Junior Fellow at the Royal College of Music after completing two years on the opera course at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School, studying with Graeme Broadbent. At the RCM he held the D'Oyle Cart Scholar (2002/03), Pidem Trust scholar (01/02) and supported by Cor Godre'r Aran (Welsh Male Voice Choir). During his studies at the Guildhall he was sponsored on scholarships from the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Arts Council of Wales, S4C television, and the Lawrence Attwell, Ryan Davies, William Cox, Dr Williams' School trust funds and Meibion Llywarch (Welsh folk choir).
Roles performed include Verdi Macbeth (Doctor/Herald/Servant); Stravinsky The Rakes Progress (Father Trulove); Janacek Jenufa (Dikoy); Mozart Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro), Stravinsky Oedipus Rex (Tiresias), Puccini Gianni Schicchi (Simone), Handel Agrippina (Claudio), Brockes Passion (Caiaphas/Centurion staged) and Britten Albert Herring (Supt Budd) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Snug/Lion, Quince); Puccini Madama Butterfly (Bonze); J Strauss Die Fledermaus (Frank): Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin (Gremin / Zaretsky), Walton The Bear (Luka); Puccini Tosca (Sacristan); Peter Maxwell Davies The Martyrdom of St Magnus; Verdi Rigoletto (Sparafucile); Verdi Falstaff (Falstaff, Pistola), Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos (Truffaldine and Lakai); Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Osmin); Weber Der Freischutz (Kaspar and Eremit); Smetena The Bartered Bride (Micha); Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors (Balthasar); scenes from Puccini La Boheme (Colline); Verdi Don Carlo (King Phillip), and Donizetti Anna Bolena (Enrico). He has performed at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School, Glyndebourne;Glyndebourne on Tour; Norwegian Royal Opera at the Oslo Music Festival Norway; Opera Valladolid Spain; Clonter Opera; Mid Wales Opera; European Chamber Opera; Dartington International Summer School, British Youth Opera, English Touring Opera; Opera Box.
Concert work include Verdi Requiem, Rossini Stabat Mater, Handel Messiah, Haydn The Creation, Scarlatti St Cecelia Mass; Mozart Requiem, Coronation Mass, Vesperae Solennes de Confessore. January 2005. He took part in concert tour of Australia and New Zealand during October 2003 and 1999 with Cor Godre’r Aran Male Voice Choir.
Recent engagements include understudy Ferrando for Welsh National Opera and
The Nose - Aix en Provence Festival and Lyon Opera.
Future performances include understudy Vodnik (Rusalka) for Royal Opera House.
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