The mission of Tŷ Cerdd – Music Centre Wales is to support, develop and promote the creation, performance and empowering experience of music, both in and of Wales. In so doing, we aspire to reach people in local communities, nationally and internationally, promoting excellence through vision, participation and training.

Elisabeth Flett is an award winning Scottish multi-instrumentalist, theatre-maker and writer. 

Winner of the GSMD 2017 Rose Lawrence Academic Award and the 2021 University of Aberdeen Literary Lights Creative Writing Award, Elisabeth now enjoys a career full of writing and research as well as performing, studying on the MLitt course in Scottish Ethnology and Folklore at the Elphinstone Institute (2020-2021) and giving talks on folklore subjects, including queer-coding in traditional folksong (Queer Online Folk Festival 2021).

Currently based in Aberdeen, Elisabeth reached the semi-finals of BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2021 and is a member of a number of bands and ensembles such as London-based folk trio Solasta, (Guardian Folk Album of the Month September 2018), folk duo Shamblestone (BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards Semi-Finalists 2017), LGBTQ+ folk collective Bogha-Frois (Celtic Connections 2019/20) and medieval folk ensemble Joglaresa (Beverly Early Music Festival 2019).

She hosted the podcast “15 Minutes With: The Quick-Fire Podcast About Women in Folk Music” (2019-20) and has written, produced and performed three successful solo theatre shows under the production name TRAINTRACK PRODUCTIONS (‘ROOTS’, Edinburgh Fringe 2019, Dundee Wighton Centre-funded ‘Christina’ and 'The Hammer of the Cailleach Bheur', Taibhsear Collective Online Winter Festival 2021)

Jack McKenzie is a Scottish Composer, Orchestrator and Arranger for Film, Television and Video Games. A highly versatile writer, his music varies in genre and style, often maintaining a heavy emphasis on melodic or thematic writing in combination with the integration of unusual and unique contemporary techniques and sounds. Jack has assisted fellow Scottish Composer Blair Mowat, most notably as an Additional Music Composer for ITV's hit crime drama "McDonald & Dodds" and as an Arranger on the upcoming “Nolly” (2023), written by Russell T. Davies. 

As an Orchestrator, Jack has prepared scores for numerous large and small-scale sessions most recently on “M3GAN” (2023) and “Black Adam” (2022). Jack has collaborated with some of the world's finest Studios and Musicians including; AIR Studios London, The Sony Scoring Stage in Los Angeles, The Budapest Art Orchestra with East Connection Recording and, alongside Mowat, were the first to record a film score with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in their state-of-the-art recording facility, "Scotland's Studio" (October 2021).

Jack studied with Contemporary Electro-Acoustic Composer Timothy Cooper whilst undertaking his BMus (Hons) Undergraduate Degree in Edinburgh, before going on to study a Post Graduate MA in Composition for Film & TV at the world-renowned National Film and Television School (alumni include Dario Marianelli, Natalie Holt, Segun Akinola, Jon Opstad, Julian Nott)

As a Tutor, Jack also creates a variety of educational content on his YouTube Channel including; Tech and Sample Library Reviews, Film Music Analyses, MIDI Tutorials and Mock-Up Covers.

Freelance singer. Studying under Sarah Estill.

Photo by Liz Isles photography.

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