Two previous winners of flagship competitions at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod have been added to the line-up for the festival’s Classical Gala Concert on Sunday July 7.
Tenor Emyr Lloyd Jones and Côr CF1 will be sharing the stage with Katherine Jenkins, providing an evening of song to close the 2024 Core Eisteddfod Week.
Emyr Lloyd Jones won the Eisteddfod’s Pendine International Voice of the Future competition in July 2022 at the age of 25, and was dubbed “the new Bryn Terfel”.
Originally from North Wales, his performance at the Eisteddfod comes during the same month he performs the role of Don Riccardo in a run of Verdi’s Ernani at Buxton International Festival featuring the Orchestra of Opera North.
* Emyr Lloyd Jones.
Also returning to the Pavilion stage will be Côr CF1, who won the Eisteddfod’s Choir of the World competition in July 2022, one of a number of prizes they have won in recent years, including BBC Choir of the Year.
The choir has performed in numerous high-profile events, ranging from the opening of Wales Millennium Centre in 2004, to performing with Take That and Lulu at the Principality Stadium in 2019.
Côr CF1’s conductor Eilir Owen Griffiths is no stranger to Llangollen, having served as the Eisteddfod’s Music Director from 2011 to 2017, a successful period for the festival which culminated in its 70th anniversary celebrations.
Dave Danford, Artistic Director of the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, said: “With Emyr Lloyd Jones and Côr CF1 added to the classical gala line-up, and with Johns’ Boys Male Chorus appearing on the Wednesday, we have three previous winners of our major competitions returning as evening concert artists. This speaks volumes of the high standard of our competitions, and demonstrates the future opportunities there are for the winners.”
“I’m also looking forward to welcoming Eilir Owen Griffiths back to Llangollen, as Côr CF1’s conductor. He offered me the opportunity to work on two concerts here for the first time in 2012, and we collaborated on a number of successful events during his tenure here.
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"He’s left a lasting legacy, having introduced competitions such as International Voice of the Future and International Voice of Musical Theatre, as well as producing some of the Eisteddfod’s most memorable concerts of the last decade.”
The classical gala concert on Sunday July 7 will be headlined by Katherine Jenkins, officially the world’s most successful classical singer, after she was crowned ‘The Biggest Selling Classical Artist of the Century’ by Classic FM.
This concert is just one of a series of high-profile events in Llangollen this year, with Tom Jones, Calan, Alis Huws, Johns’ Boys Male Chorus, Kerry Ellis, John Owen-Jones, and Gregory Porter also performing during the Core Eisteddfod Week (which runs from July 2 – 7) and a host of other artists performing in the weeks either side, including Bryan Adams, Simple Minds, Paloma Faith, Manic Street Preachers, Kaiser Chiefs, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Jess Glynne, and Madness.
* Tickets for all these are available to buy online from LLANGOLLEN.NET. The venue is just an hour from Liverpool, and 90 minutes from Manchester.
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