Cor y Brythoniaid
Artist Apperances
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Best known for her unequalled three James Bond themes - Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever. |
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 Whether it's opera, art song, folk song, oratorio or popular song, live or recorded, Bryn Terfel is a towering presence in the international music world. The combination of a great voice, immaculate diction, commanding stage presence and flair for acting has made Bryn Terfel the hottest property in opera throughout the world. Since his stage debut with Welsh National Opera in 1990, singing Guglielmo in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, he quickly went on to build up his operatic repertoire. His first international offer came from Salzburg, and since then he has appeared in all the major opera houses of the world, with music as diverse as Mozart and Wagner, Puccini and Stravinsky, Verdi and Britten. |
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 Annette was born in the village of Deiniolen in Gwynedd, in which she still resides. Having studied piano with Rhiannon Gabrielson, she moved on to the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) at Manchester to study with Marjorie Clementi. She obtained her GRNCM degree in 1984. While accompanying at Manchester, she specialized in lieder, oratorio and opera, but her particular interest was in the Romantic composers.She became an official accompanist at the age of fifteen. In 1982, she won the Grace Williams Medal for composition at the Urdd National Eisteddfod at Pwllheli. In 1983 she made her first appearance at the National Eisteddfod, at Llangefni, and at Rhyl National Eisteddfod in 1985, she won the Blue Riband for instrumentalists. Nowadays, she appears regularly on the National Eisteddfod stage, and also at the International Eisteddfod at Llangollen. In 1984, Annette became a piano tutor for students following B.A. and B.Mus. degree courses, and she also accompanies students in their degree examinations. |
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 Born in Chirk, North Wales, David Kempster studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He won the Young Welsh Singer Competition in 1998, and in 1999 represented Wales in the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. David joined English National Opera as a Principal Baritone in 1998. Roles have included Teddy Foran in the world premiere of Mark Anthony Turnage’s opera The Silver Tassie, Marcello and Schaunard in La Bohème, Lescaut in Manon Lescaut, Chou En-Lai in Nixon in China, Conte de Luna in Il Trovatore, Anckarstroem in Un Ballo in Maschera, Pilate in St John Passion, Poacher in The Cunning Little Vixen and Montano in Otello. David has also sung Escamillo in Carmen for Glyndebourne on Tour and Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, Peter in Hänsel und Gretel, Thaos in Iphigénie en Tauride and Marcello La Bohème (in Hong Kong) for Welsh National Opera, Escamillo in Carmen, Marcello, Agamemnon La Belle Hélène and Sharpless Madama Butterfly for English National Opera, Germont in La Traviata and Marcello in La Bohème for Glyndebourne on Tour, the title role in Rigoletto in South Africa, his US debut as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly for Dallas Opera and Dr Falke Die Fledermaus for Glyndebourne on Tour. Recent engagements include Lescaut in Manon Lescaut for Florida Grand Opera and Nottingham Roberto Devereux for Buxton Festival. |
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 Born in Wales, Rhys Meirion graduated as a Bachelor of Education and worked as a head-teacher before beginning his training as a singer. From 1997 to 1999 he was a member of the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After attending the post graduate opera course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London for two years, Rhys joined the English National Opera Jerwood Young Singers Programme in 1999 and was subsequently a Company Principal from 2001 to 2004. His roles included Rodolfo in La Boheme, Alfredo in La Traviata, Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore, Nadir in The Pearl Fishers, Marcello in Leoncavallo’s La Boheme, Duke in Rigoletto, Tebaldo in Capuletti e Montecchi, Tamino in The Magic Flute, the title role in Ernani, Sailor in Tristan und Isolde, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Italian Singer in Der Rosenkavalier, Froh in Das Rheingold, Zinovy in Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk and most recently Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly. In 2002 Rhys made his Australian debut as Rodolfo in La Boheme for West Australian Opera and his European debut as Rodolfo for Städtische Bühnen, Frankfurt-am-Main. |
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 Gwyn Hughes Jones has been a star in the world of opera for many years, and has travelled the world entertaining opera lovers. He began his singing career as a baritone, studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, and the National Opera Studio, London. Like another North West Walian opera singer before him, Gwyn won the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier Scholarship in 1992. He was also given first prize in the 1995 Neue Stimmen Competition in Gtersloh, the 1996 Arts Council of Wales Young Welsh Singer and was a finalist in the 1997 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. |
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 Willard White was born in Jamaica, where he commenced his musical training at the Jamaican School of Music and then went on to the Juilliard School in New York. Since making his debut with the New York City Opera he has sung regularly at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, New York, the English National Opera, San Francisco, the Opera Houses of Munich, Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Geneva, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, and at the Glyndebourne, Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg Festivals. Willard White’s huge repertoire includes the bass-baritone roles in operas by John Adams, Bartok, Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Debussy, Shostakovich, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Messiaen and Gershwin. |
