Dafydd Jones & Brian Hughes
Fri July 24, 2026 7:00 pm
Dafydd Jones – Tenor
Brian Hughes – Piano
Dafydd Jones hails from the Vale of Clwyd and has forged a distinguished career in the World of Opera. A graduate of the Royal College of Music International Opera School, he is a member of the esteemed Bayerische Staatsoper Opernstudio in Munich, where he has performed many leading roles. For this concert Dafydd teams up with one of the musical legends of Wales, Brian Hughes, to present a programme of songs by Welsh composers, arrangements of Welsh folksongs mentioned in their journals by travellers to Conwy in the early 19th century, and lieder by Schubert, in recognition of his present links with Germany.
O Ddyffryn Clwyd y daw Dafydd Jones ac mae wedi sefydlu gyrfa o fri ym myd Opera. Yn raddedig o Ysgol Opera Rhyngwladol y Coleg Cerdd Brenhinol, mae’n aelod o Bayerische
Staatsoper Opernstudio, Munich ble y mae wedi perfformio nifer o rannau arweiniol. Ar gyfer y cyngerdd y mae Dafydd wedi ymuno ag un o ffigyrau cerddorol chwedlonol Cymru,
Brian Hughes i gyflwyno rhaglen o ganeuon gan gyfansoddwyr Cymreig, trefnianau o ganeuon gwerin a nodwyd gan deithwyr i Gonwy yn eu cofnodion yn y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar
Bymtheg ac yna, lieder gan Schubert, i gydnabod ei gyswllt agos â’r Almaen ar hyn o bryd.
Sponsored by/Noddwyd gan Conwy Strollers and By the Sea, Castle Street, Conwy.
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