Fame Hilite: World-renowned bass-baritone; knighted in 2017 for services to music; sang the coronation Kyrie for King Charles III in Welsh.
Birth info: Born 9 November 1965 in Pant Glas, Caernarfonshire (Gwynedd), Wales.
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Beyond the opera house, Terfel founded the Faenol Festival near Snowdonia in 2000 and is a vice president of the historic Dunvant Male Choir in Swansea. In 2023 he made history as the first performer to sing Welsh at a British coronation.
Career Highlights:
Career Highlight: Won the Lieder Prize at Cardiff Singer of the World, 1989
Career Highlight: Debuted at the Royal Opera House and Metropolitan Opera in the early 1990s
Career Highlight: Knighted for services to music, 2017
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Connection: Born and raised in rural Gwynedd; Welsh was his first language, and he remains a leading patron of Welsh music and culture.
Location String: Pant Glas, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
Connection Place Map: 53.0068,-4.2814
Sir Bryn Terfel Jones was born on 9 November 1965 in Pant Glas, a small village in Caernarfonshire (now Gwynedd), the son of a farmer. Welsh was his first language, and he grew up singing in chapel and competing at local eisteddfodau, taught traditional Welsh songs by a family friend before he had any formal training. He is now widely regarded as one of the finest bass-baritones of his generation, a singer whose career has taken him from the hills above Caernarfon to the world's greatest opera houses.
Terfel studied at...
Fame Hilite: Section Principal with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and a former member of the RPS Young Artist Award-winning Heath Quartet.
Birth info: Born in 1981 in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, Wales.
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Cerys is a member of the Sinfonia of London and appears regularly as Guest Principal with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. She continues to pass on her craft as a teacher at both the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in her home city of Cardiff and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Career Highlights:
Career Highlight: Soloist debut with BBC National Chamber Orchestra of Wales, 2003
Career Highlight: RPS Young Artist Award with the Heath Quartet
Career Highlight: BBC Music Magazine Album of the Year 2020 with Sinfonia of London (Korngold)
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Connection: Born and raised in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, and trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama before her professional career.
Cerys Jones is a violinist from Rhiwbina, Cardiff, who began playing at the age of eight and went on to become one of Wales's most accomplished orchestral and chamber musicians. In 1996 she won a full scholarship to the Junior Department of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, studying under Barry Haskey, before leading the Cardiff County and Vale of Glamorgan Youth Orchestra and appearing as a soloist with the BBC National Chamber Orchestra of Wales in 2003, performing Bach's Concerto for Violin in E major.
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Edward Jones
His appointment as the king's harpist (1783-77) and more than twenty musical publications, including his popular 'The musical and poetical relicks of the Welsh bards' first published in 1784. Despite his popularity as a tutor to the nobility and gentry of London, he died penniless.
