Grand Concert
Artist Director~ Robat Arwyn
Saturday, September 3, 2023 at 7:00 pm - 9:00pm. Location: St. Paul's Methodist Church, 1144 M St, Lincoln, NE 68508
Ticket Required, not covered by a NAFOW DayPass :
Adult ~ $40 / Youth (18 and under or student ID) $15 Youth Weekend Pass.
Welsh tenor Rhys Meirion has enjoyed international success in opera and recording and national success in broadcasting. After two years on the Opera Course at The Guild Hall of Music and Drama in London, he joined the English National Opera Jerwood Young Singers Programme and was subsequently a Company Principal before becoming a freelance performer.
Rhys Meirion has an extensive catalogue of recording work, including a duet album with Bryn Terfel ('Benedictus on the SAIN label') which was nominated for a Classical Brit Award.
He is a regular presenter on TV and radio in Wales. TV series on S4C include Deuawdau Rhys Meirion, Corau Rhys Meirion and Canu Gyda Fy Arwr. Rhys also presents the iconic series Ar Eich Cais on BBC Radio Cymru. His Charity work includes three 200 mile walks to support the Wales Air Ambulance for whom he is an Ambassador and a Lap of Wales Challenge for Organ Donation Awareness and Elen's Fund www.facebook.com/cronfaelen'sfund. His autobiography for Welsh Publishers Y Lolfa was published in November 2014 and became the No 1 Best selling book in Wales.
Rhys Meirion has an extensive catalogue of recording work, including a duet album with Bryn Terfel ('Benedictus on the SAIN label') which was nominated for a Classical Brit Award.
He is a regular presenter on TV and radio in Wales. TV series on S4C include Deuawdau Rhys Meirion, Corau Rhys Meirion and Canu Gyda Fy Arwr. Rhys also presents the iconic series Ar Eich Cais on BBC Radio Cymru. His Charity work includes three 200 mile walks to support the Wales Air Ambulance for whom he is an Ambassador and a Lap of Wales Challenge for Organ Donation Awareness and Elen's Fund www.facebook.com/cronfaelen'sfund. His autobiography for Welsh Publishers Y Lolfa was published in November 2014 and became the No 1 Best selling book in Wales.
Gwawr Edwards is a well-known singer throughout the UK and further afield. At 17 she was offered a scholarship to study singing at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, before gaining a first class Masters degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.
She has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Cadogan Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Manchester Bridgewater Hall, and the Millennium Centre, Cardiff to name a few, accompanied by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Wales.
Gwawr has traveled the world entertaining audiences in Asia, Europe, North and South America, and also occasionally presents for S4C and BBC Radio Cymru, and has two albums out called ‘Gwawr Edwards’ and ‘Alleluia’ and one children’s book and CD called ‘Mali’.
She has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Cadogan Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Manchester Bridgewater Hall, and the Millennium Centre, Cardiff to name a few, accompanied by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Wales.
Gwawr has traveled the world entertaining audiences in Asia, Europe, North and South America, and also occasionally presents for S4C and BBC Radio Cymru, and has two albums out called ‘Gwawr Edwards’ and ‘Alleluia’ and one children’s book and CD called ‘Mali’.
Emyr Lloyd Jones is a baritone from Caernarfon, North Wales. He holds BMus and MMus degrees from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and is currently studying on the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Emyr was the 2022 winner of the Pendine International Voice of the Future at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, where he was dubbed the next Bryn Terfel.
At the RNCM, Emyr is the winner of the Betty Bannerman French Song Prize, the English Song Prize, the Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the singing of Strauss (2021), the Alexander Young Prize (2019), the James Martin Oncken Song Prize (2018), the Elsie Thurston Prize (2017) as well as the Joyce Budd prize for second place in the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers (2017). Emyr has also had multiple successes at the National Eisteddfod of Wales over recent years, including winning the Baritone Solo, Folk Solo and the Opera Duet competitions.
Emyr’s operatic highlights include Ekbert in Judith Weir’s Blond Ekbert (GSMD), Hugh Evans in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Sir John in Love (BYO), Il Conte di Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (RNCM), Musiklehrer in Srauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos (RNCM) and Forester in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen (RNCM).
Emyr has performed at many notorious venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, the Bridgewater Hall, Festival Hall, Manchester Arena, the King Edward Theatre, Grieghallen, the Wales Millennium Centre, and most recently in Ty Gwyn, Patagonia. Aside from singing, Emyr enjoys following Liverpool Football Club and watching car rallies. He is thrilled to be making his North American debut!
At the RNCM, Emyr is the winner of the Betty Bannerman French Song Prize, the English Song Prize, the Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the singing of Strauss (2021), the Alexander Young Prize (2019), the James Martin Oncken Song Prize (2018), the Elsie Thurston Prize (2017) as well as the Joyce Budd prize for second place in the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers (2017). Emyr has also had multiple successes at the National Eisteddfod of Wales over recent years, including winning the Baritone Solo, Folk Solo and the Opera Duet competitions.
Emyr’s operatic highlights include Ekbert in Judith Weir’s Blond Ekbert (GSMD), Hugh Evans in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Sir John in Love (BYO), Il Conte di Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (RNCM), Musiklehrer in Srauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos (RNCM) and Forester in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen (RNCM).
Emyr has performed at many notorious venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, the Bridgewater Hall, Festival Hall, Manchester Arena, the King Edward Theatre, Grieghallen, the Wales Millennium Centre, and most recently in Ty Gwyn, Patagonia. Aside from singing, Emyr enjoys following Liverpool Football Club and watching car rallies. He is thrilled to be making his North American debut!