1.KEITH CHEETHAM:  
CHAIRMAN OF ADJUDICATORS & CONCERT DIRECTOR.

Award winning Producer and Director in Film and television.Designed the very first
colour production of 'Ahmal & the Night Visitors',recorded in the presence of the composer Menotti.
Award winning designer on the first series of 'Dr. Who'
He has worked for Moscow Arts Theatre, and the Comedie- Francaise,working on Moliere, Racine,Chekhov,Synge and Plautus.On documentaries has collaborated with International artists including Sir Michael Tippett, Sir Colin Davies, Jacqueline du pres, Menotti,Dame Alicia Markova, and Stephen Sondheim. Music productions include Opera workshops, T.V production of 'The Little Sweep'(Britten), video version of Walton's 'Facade'; Voice of the City- A Musical Biography of Irving Berlin and 'Blues in the Night, adapted from the Broadway Stage for television. Designed and Directed many Multi Media events in America, Hong Kong and Europe.Currently developing a film on Vivaldi, writing a Musical play on Dickens for Children, and is Artistic director of 2x2 Opera.
Nominations include: International Emmy, Best Production/Best Director- Monitor awards, Golden Rose of Montreux.Awards;Banff T.V Featival, Ace Award, Houston Arts Festival, Golden Antenna,and New York Film Festival.

2.MAIR REES DAVIES

Born in North Wales and is fluent in both Welsh and Italian. Educated at the Royal College of Music,
Opera school,where ahe gained her A.R.C.M. Singing Diploma in performing and Teaching.
She sang the lead in 'Ahmal and the Night Visitors at the R.C.M. ,in the presence of the Queen and Queen mother, and the composer Menotti.
This led to a scholarship to study at The Conservetoire in Rome
She has more than 30 years experience in the Music Industry,and continues to teach and promote Young Singers.
Her London based 'Prima Donna Music management Agency'  has represented young people in top West-End Shows: Evita; Sound of Music; Guding Star 2007 and Little Prince B.B.C.2
As a Mezzo-Soprano, Mair has sung in Concerts & Recitals in Italy& Wales.
Awards; Dorothy Silk & London Music Society. The Italian Government scholarship. Urdd & National EIsteddfods. Cyfle T.V. for production & camera work.
Television appearances: HTV Glan Hafren.S4c A Mind to Kill. Pobol y Cwm.BBC Wales The Citadel,
St. David's Day London Welsh BBC1 Eastenders, Casualty, Killing Me Softly.

3.EIRIAN JAMES



Born in  Wales and studied at Cardiff University and the Royal College of Music.Appeared as Principal Mezzo- soprano in Major Opera Houses in Europe and America.At Covent Garden: Annina (Rosenkavalier)
Javotte (Manon); Smeaton (Anna Bolena)Tisbe (Cenerentola);Nancy (Albert Herring);
and Olga (Eugene Onegin).At E.N.O.: Cupid ( Orpheus); Hermia ( Midsummer's Dream) and Rosina.
She has sung her favourite role Cherubino in Kent Opera;Geneva; Bordeaux, Paris; Munich ;Dresden, Madrid & Houston.With John Elliot Gardiner, has sung & recorded Despna,Zerlina and Meg Page.
Other recordings Sextus (Giulio Cesare)Cantata Christus Apollo.
In Concert: Proms & all major Concert Halld in Britain, and has worked with leading conductors including
Jeffrey Tate, Roger Norrington,Neville Mariner and Sr Coln Davies,
Eirian has hosted many televson shows for S4C.
4.PATRICK WHEATLEY:


Principal Baritone with English National Opera 1975-1993
singing all major roles including 'Hans Sachs,' Sharpless,' Escamillo,' Germont''
He sang Rigoletto for W.N.O.; Falstaff, Marcello Wotan & Papageno for Birminham Touring Opera;
Zurga for Scottish Opera ;and Renato for Opera Ireland
Concerts and Recitals all over U.K. and Europe including B.B.C. Proms;'La Gioconda' with Placido Domingo; and Medea with Grace Bumbry at the Barbican.
Awards: Peter Syuyvesant Scholarship 1974
Vocal Tutor and Consultant since 1997.
Established his own Regional Opera Company in 1991, directing Stage productions and Concerts in the South Wales Area.

5.Dr. Richard Elfyn Jones

Richard ElfynJones is a Composer in all genres with a strong emphasis  for performance in Wales.He has been commissioned to write works for many eminent performers, including Bryn Terfel,Dame Gillian Weir, John Scott, Jack Brymer, Ingrid Surgenor, the Britten Quartet, the Debussy Trio and the B.B.C. National Orchestra of Wales. In the 1980's and 90's he was active both in the Uk and abroad as a film and T.V. composer.He has also published books and papers on the 20th century Opera and Metaphysical aesthetics.
As a Practical Musician, Richard Elfyn Jones has worked as a choral and Orchestral conductor( Semi-Finalist in the Guido Cantelli International Conducting Competition 1980), and has given Organ Recitals on Radio & Television in the Uk and abroad, and recorded for Decca and EMI.
In 1979-85, he was appointed a member of the Central committee of the National Eisteddfod, and continues to be a regular adjudicator
Between 1996-2004 he was appointed Classical Music advisor for S4C.T.V. His music is published by Paraclete Press.

6.TERENCE LLOYD

Terence LLoyd was educated at the Royal Academy in London, and began his career as a Concert pianist and Accompanist.He accompanied regularly at venues across the U.K. including the Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and Covent Garden.
He recorded a series of Schubert Lieder for B.B.C. 2.
He has also worked as a Conductor throughout Wales.
Terence is a regular adjudicator at the National Eisteddfod of Wales , and has adjudicated all the Main competitions Vocal, Instrumental and Choral.
He was for many years a Concert Promoter for Welsh Societies in Barbados

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