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Buried: Trecastle, Breconshire, Wales. Professor David Jenkins (1848 - 1915) was a Welsh composer born at Trecastle, Brecknockshire, Wales. Originally apprenticed to the tailoring trade, he joined the Tonic Solfa choral movement and in 1874 enrolled at Aberystwyth College and studied under the renowned composer Joseph Parry, the first Professor ...
Daniel Jenkyn Jones, Welsh composer and conductor, was born in Pembroke, 7 December 1912. He grew up in a musical family; his father, Jenkyn Jones, was a composer and his mother a singer. He was educated at Swansea Grammar School, 1924-31, and at University College, Swansea, 1931-4, where he graduated with first class honours in English Literature.
Eric Jones was born and raised in Pontarddulais. After leaving University of Wales, Cardiff with a degree in Music, his teaching career started in Llanelli, before moving on to Ysgol Mynyddbach, Swansea, Ysgol Gyfun Gŵyr, and finally a head teacher at Ysgol Bro Myrddin, retiring in 2006. He is a Fellow of Trinity College, London and for his contribution to music in Wales he was made an honorary member of The Gorsedd of the Bards. He became President of Pontarddulais Male Voice Choir in 2004 ...
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Robert Jones. Robert Jones was an English lutenist and composer, the most prolific of the English lute song composers (along with Thomas Campion). He received the degree of B.Mus from Oxford in 1597 (St. Edmund Hall). He ran a school in London. Records show that he had a patent (monopoly) to train children for the Queen's Revels between 1610 ...
Apr 6, 2021 · A Strange Beauty. Symphonies by Daniel Jones, heard by GEOFF PEARCE. 'The BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra delivers fine performances, as does the direction of its conductor, Bryden Thomson.'. I had never heard of Daniel Jones (1912-1993) or his works before, so was keen to listen to this composer of thirteen symphonies, two operas and many other ...
In the last 25 years of her life, Grace Williams composed music that marks her as a composer of importance in Wales. Her influence on younger Welsh composers was enormous, and she proved that it is possible to live in a small country and survive as an artist. In a land with a deeply rooted choral tradition, she helped place orchestral music on ...
