Llangollen Eisteddfod appoints New Music Director
LLANGOLLEN EISTEDDFOD APPOINTS NEW MUSIC DIRECTOR
Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod are pleased to announce that they have appointed Eilir Owen Griffiths, the highly successful conductor and composer, as their new Music Director to follow Mervyn Cousins who has left to take a senior post with the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music.
Mr Griffiths, 30, a native of Denbigh and whose parents still live in Colwyn Bay, is a Tutor/Cultural Organiser at The University of Wales Trinity Saint David in Carmarthen, where, in addition to lecturing he is also a director for Musical Theatre productions and a singing teacher, as well as being Artistic Director of the Trinity Arts Festival. He is best known throughout Wales as the Musical Director of the very well-known choirs CF1 and Côr Godre’r Garth with whom he has attained considerable success in competitions and concerts. He conducts the college choir, and is also a highly-regarded composer, his most recent work being a “Requiem” written to celebrate the creation of a new university, which received its premiere in June 2011 with Bryn Terfel and Wynne Evans performing together with Eilir’s 3 choirs and the Chamber Orchestra of Wales. In addition to his work in Wales, Eilir has considerable international contacts, especially with Poland and North America, and is the founder of the Stuart Burrows International Voice Award
Eilir said “I am very much looking forward to the challenge of maintaining and advancing the very high standards of the International Eisteddfod, and I am particularly anxious to increase the involvement of children in this great festival”
Eisteddfod Chairman Phil Davies said “We are all very excited at this new appointment of a young man who, while at the heart of the Welsh music scene, has a wide and international outlook which will equip him well for the task of taking the Llangollen Eisteddfod forward to even greater achievements.”
Eisteddfod Rhyngwladol Llangollen yn apwyntio Cyfarwyddwr Cerdd newydd
Mae Eisteddfod Rhyngwladol Cerddorol Cymru yn falch o gyhoeddi eu bod wedi apwyntio Eilir Owen Griffiths, yr arweinydd a'r cyfansoddwr llwyddianus, fel eu Cyfarwyddwr Cerdd newydd yn dilyn Mervyn Cousins a wnaeth adael i gymeryd swydd uwch gyda Bwrdd Cysylltiedig yr Ysgolion Cerdd Frenhinol.
Mae Mr Griffiths, sy'n 30 oed ac yn frodor o Ddimbych, yn diwtor / trefnydd diwlliannol ym Mhrifysgol Coleg y Drindod, yng Nghaerfyrddin, lle mae o, yn ogystal a darlithio, hefyd yn cyfarwyddo eu cynhyrchiadau sioeau cerdd, yn athro canu, ac efe sydd hefyd yn Gyfarwyddwr Artistig i “GWYL! Gelfyddydau'r Drindod”. Mae e'n fwy adnabyddus efallai drwy Gymru fel Cyfarwyddwr Cerdd Cor CF1 a Chor Godre'r Garth, sydd wedi bod yn llwyddiannus iawn dan ei arweiniad.
Yn ogystal a'i waith yng Nghymru mae gan Eilir gysylltiadau rhyngwladol cryf iawn yn, yn enwedig yng Ngwlad Pwyl a Gogledd America, ac efe sefydlodd Gwobr Llais Ryngwladol Stuart Burrows.
Dywedodd Eilyr " Mi rydw i yn edrych ymlaen yn arw at y sialens o gynnal a hyrwyddo y safonau uchel sydd gan Eisteddfod Llangollen, ac mi rydw i yn arbennig o awyddus i godi cyfraniad yr ifanc yn yr wyl arbennig yma.
Dywedodd y Cadeirydd Phil Davies " Rydym wrth ein boddau gyda'r apwyntiad newydd yma o Gymro ifanc sydd wrth galon a gwraidd cerddoriaeth yng Nghymru, ond sydd hefyd gyda gwelediaeth ryngwladol sydd yn ei arfogi'n dda ar gyfer y dasg o gymryd Eisteddfod Llangollen ymlaen i'r dyfodol."