Mared Emlyn

Mared Emlyn will perform in the Festival Concert on Tuesday Aprill 22, and will be leading a composing workshop with Pwyll ap Siôn on Saturday April 26.

Originally from Llangernyw, Mared now lives in Eglwys Bach, in the Conwy Valley.

In 2009 she graduated with BMus First Class Honours at Bangor University, Wales and was awarded a KESS scholarship funded by the European Union in association with Gwynn Publishing Company, to further her studies. She has recently successfully completed her doctorate in performance on the harp and composition. She studied composition with Dr Pwyll ap Siôn and harp with Elinor Bennett, with additional lessons from Ursula Holliger in Basel, and Judy Loman in Toronto.

Mared performs in concerts as a soloist and has also performed Danses Sacrée et Profane by Debussy and Concerto for Harp by Ginastera as a soloist with the Bangor University Symphony Orchestra.

She won the Urdd’s Chief Composition medal in 2011 for her work Perlau yn y Glaw for solo harp. As well as the comission for the harp festival, she was also comissioned to compose a work for violin for piano to be performed by Madeleine Mitchell for this year’s Bangor New Music Festival.