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.

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As well as composing and producing film music, Ben Heneghan and Ian Lawson have been songwriting together for over 25 years. They also (independently) compose concert music and choral music.

In film, they are particularly well known for their music for animation - Fireman Sam, Hilltop Hospital, The Little Engine that Could, The Legend of Lochnagar and many more.

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David John Roche’s music is direct, determined, and loud. Strongly influenced by heavy metal, lush orchestral music, and his working-class Welsh background, he has been marked out as a “clear-minded and class-conscious artist” (Culture Matters) and “one of the most energetic, driven, and successful of Wales’s millennial generation of composers” (Tŷ Cerdd). David’s work has been described as “exquisite” (Adam Walton, BBC Introducing Wales), praised for its “ingenious scoring” (The Arts Desk), and complimented for its “passages of intense expressive power” (Thomas Adès). His compositions have been broadcast, televised, and written about internationally to millions of people.

A string of international performances and commissions form the backbone of David’s work: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Florence Philharmonic, Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center, Psappha Ensemble, and the Solem Quartet, among others.  David has been nominated for an award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been the recipient of an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Grant and a Lithuanian Arts Council grant. He has just completed an electric guitar concerto for Sean Shibe, Sinfonia Cymru, and Britten Sinfonia, and he is currently finishing his first symphony-length work for orchestra, funded by Aberystwyth University, Tŷ Cerdd, and the Arts Council of Wales.

ANGHARAD is the alt-pop project of song-writer and fiddle player Angharad Jenkins. A powerful, and fearless artist, her new music has been drawing comparisons with the likes of John Cale, PJ Harvey, and Patti Smith. Her music explores the female experience, motherhood, and our relationship with time.

Sound artist and radio host based in Cardiff. Find selected work on here as well as past Pitch Radio shows!

TeiFi is a musician from South Wales, weaving multiple threads into a unique contemporary Welsh tapestry.

Performing a unique blend of “rude grooves and smooth loops”: funny, bilingual hip-hop alongside ethereal Celtic pop. She sings about bodies, motherhood, nature, sensuality and Welsh-Lady Mermaids. Her live set - sometimes solo, sometimes with her crew from the TeifiVerse (four multi-lingual female rappers/vocalists/DJs) - embodies female empowerment and theatrical flair. 

"I'll never forget this particular performance for as long as I live… Calling it now. TeiFi is the best discovery of the entire weekend for me!” Leo Grant @FOCUS Wales

In Unwaith Rownd yr Haul (Once Round the Sun) TeiFi creates Welsh language verses about native Welsh plants, one for each month of the year. With her nature inspired pieces, she is connecting to ancestors and becoming a part of the landscape. 

To date, live highlights have been at BBC 6Music festival in 2022 as part of Ladies of Rage takeover, at Llais 2021 and at Focus Wales 2021 & 2022.

TeiFi’s debut album is due for release in 2025.

Gareth Glyn was born in Machynlleth, mid-Wales, in 1951, but has lived since 1978 on Anglesey, an island whose history, mythology and landscape have been important influences on his work as a composer, as has his Welsh identity.

His works were first broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation while he was studying music at Merton College, Oxford.

His compositions have been commissioned and played by eminent orchestras and ensembles and bands, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, The BBC Scottish Orchestra, the Strasbourg Philharmonic, the Ulster Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, I Musici de Montréal and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, and soloists including Bryn Terfel, Catrin Finch and Charlotte Church.

His many works for choirs of all kinds are sung all over the world, and he is particularly eminent in the field of male voice choirs – his Clychau’r Gog/Bluebells recently went into its 4th printing, and Heriwn, Wynebwn y Wawr/The Future’s Beginning Today is widely regarded as one of the best original Welsh choral pieces of the last fifty years.

His output includes orchestral, chamber, solo instrumental and vocal works, musicals, songs and song-cycles for professionals, amateurs and children, music for brass band and large-scale works for orchestra, narrators, actors and audience-participation; he has worked widely with leading orchestras in many parts of the world providing specialist works like EGAD! and Strings on the Wing, which can be performed by players of many different abilities simultaneously – from absolute beginners to concert soloists.

Gareth Glyn’s work is widely published (Spartan, Gwynn, Curiad, Adlais, Alaw, Chanterelle) and recorded (principally on ASV/Universal, Sain and Laserlight).

Gareth Glyn received an Honorary Fellowship from Bangor University, and the rank of Honorary Druid in the National Eisteddfod’s Gorsedd of Bards, for his services to music in Wales.

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