A shared stage / Rhannu'r llwyfan gyda'r côr
Over the years Bridgend Male Choir has had the privilege of sharing the concert platform with both local and international choirs, musicians, singers and presenters including a few world famous artists.
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(2009) Ros Evans
was born is Swansea, and educated at King's College, London and Royal Welsh College of Music and DramaShe has performed on some of the world's greatest concert platforms, including the concert halls at Perth and Melbourne, the Usher and Reid Halls in Edinburgh, the Basilica in Cairo and in 2004 made her debut at Sydney Opera House. . She appears regularly with male choirs, the Three Other Tenors from Welsh National Opera and in Proms concerts. Ros also features regularly on television and radio; on S4C's Musicale, Noson Lawen and Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol, and with Dennis O'Neill on BBC TV's Masterclass series.
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(2011, 2013 & 2016) Huw Edwards
a Choir Patron, was born 18 August 1961 in Bridgend into a Welsh-speaking family, is a Welsh journalist, presenter, and newsreader. As the BBC News lead presenter for major breaking news in the UK, Edwards presents Britain's most watched news programme, BBC News at Ten, the corporation's flagship news broadcast. He also presents BBC coverage of state events, international events when David Dimbleby is unable to, the hour-long BBC News at Five on the BBC's rolling news channel BBC News and occasionally presents BBC News at Six. Edwards presented the BBC's coverage of major national events, including the Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
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(June 2007) Liberty High School Acapella Choir
Choir was established in 2002 primarily to raise funds for a tour to Washington DC after an invitation was received by our Liberty Chamber and A Cappella choirs to perform at the "National Festival of the States" to represent the State of California. Then director, Susan Stuart, led the students for that first tour in 2003. Stuart retired in 2011 and now Laura Carreon carries on the tradition of excellence! The Choir continued to support bi-annual choir tours to various locations including New York, Great Britain and most recently in June 2015 to Rome to perform with the Music Celebrations international music festival directed by Z. Randall Stroop
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(May 2007) Alan Titchmarsh,
MBE, DL, HonFSE is an English gardener, presenter, and novelist. After working as a professional gardener and a gardening journalist, he established himself as a media personality through appearances on gardening programmes.
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(July 2006) Cerys Jones
was born in Cardiff in 1981 and hails from Rhiwbina. She enjoys a distinguished performing career as a chamber musician and leader of London session orchestras having graduated from the Royal College of Music. As a postgraduate, she studied in the class of Lewis Kaplan at the Juilliard School. With the Heath Quartet, Cerys has performed in the most prestigious concert halls and festivals worldwide, and broadcast live on British, French and German radio. She has played as a guest with the Nash Ensemble and with the DSCH ensemble in Portugal, recording the complete Shostakovich chamber music. Cerys has won numerous national and international awards for her solo and chamber music performances, including the 2016 Gramophone Award, the 2013 RPS Young Artists award, Borletti-Buitoni award and Nord Metal Mecklenburg-Vorpommern chamber music award with the Heath Quartet, and the Hattori, Solti, MBF, Martin Musical Scholarship Fund and Countess of Munster awards as a soloist.
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(2014) Cor Merched Cwm Llynfi
is now in its 27th year. Although the choir is based in Maesteg in the Llynfi Valley, it draws its membership from a wider area. Over the years the choir has performed in a variety of settings, including The Chapel of St. Mary Undercroft in the Houses of Parliament, the Millennium Centre in Cardiff and the Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. On three occasions the choir has attended the London Sangerstevne, an international non-competitive choral festival. Cor Merched Cwm Llynfi has also made regular appearances at "Choirs in the Castle" in Coity.
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(2006) Gardar Thor Cortes
born 2 May 1974, is an Icelandic tenor of Icelandic and English parentage. A former child actor, Garðar subsequently trained as a singer in Vienna, Copenhagen and London. He was a contemporary of Katherine at the Royal Academy of Music and has performed various leading tenor roles in operas, as well as a leading part in The Phantom of the Opera in London's West End. While insisting that he is first and foremost a classical opera singer, it was with his classical crossover album Cortes, released in Iceland in 2005, that Garðar came to prominence.
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(July 2006) Fflur Wyn
Welsh soprano who graduated with a B.Mus(Hons). and Dip.RAM from the Royal Academy of Music London, where she studied with Beatrice Unsworth and Clara Taylor. She is the recipient of many awards and scholarships which include First Prize and Audience Prize at the National Handel Competition, the Kathleen Ferrier Bursary, the London Welsh Young Singer of the Year, the Bryn Terfel Scholarship and the MOCSA Young Welsh Singer Prize.
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(2008) Postchor Klagenfurt
was founded in 1985 with 12 singers and until 1995, all singers were employees of Post and Telekom. Concert tours have been undertaken in Germany and throughout Europe, CIS countries (Russian Commonwealth), South Africa, South America and Mediterranean islands. Eight recordings and some joint productions (co-productions) have been produced.
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Max Boyce MBE
a Choir Patron, (born 27 September 1943) is a Welsh comedian, singer and entertainer. He rose to fame during the mid-1970s with an act that combined musical comedy with his passion for rugby union and his origins in the mining communities of South Wales. Having sold more than two million albums in a career spanning four decades, and playing to full houses all around the world, Boyce is one of the most successful and enduring entertainers in Welsh history.