Date/Time:
Date(s) - 03/12/2018
12:45 pm
Location: Brangwyn
We welcome Huw Tregelles Williams to the Brangwyn for the third and last of our autumn series of lunchtime organ recitals.
Huw was born in Gowerton and educated in Llanelli Grammar School.
During his postgraduate study, he recorded several recitals for Radio 3 on completion of which he joined the BBC as music producer. He was appointed Head of Music, BBC Wales in 1985 and first Director of the newly-expanded and renamed BBC National Orchestra of Wales in 1993. His 15-year tenure of these posts included 11 music series for BBC1 and BBC2 and orchestral tours to prestigious venues in North America, Japan, the Soviet Union and throughout Europe.
He established CD recordings, education outreach and substantial sponsorship as regular features of the Orchestra’s work and also commissioned new work from three generations of international and Welsh composers.
He has produced a series of programmes for S4C television on historic European organs and has given inaugural concerts at St. David’s Hall and the National Museum of Wales, recitals at Sydney Town Hall, St. Paul’s Cathedral and a special edition of BBC1’s Songs of Praise from the Royal Albert Hall to celebrate the restoration of its Willis organ.
In 1998 he was appointed OBE and Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama for service to music in Wales which has included membership of the Arts Council and the Council of the Royal College of Organists.
Don’t forget, Frank’s Bar is open before and after the recital for light refreshments.
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