About
Llywelyn completed his postgraduate studies in 2015 at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg where he was mentored by Stephen Fitzpatrick. He was also First Prize winner of the ‘Savarez-Corelli Kammermusik Competition’. His Master’s studies were generously funded by the James Pantyfedwen Trust.
Prior to his time in Salzburg, he studied the harp with Caryl Thomas at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where he was the recipient of numerous awards including the Mansel Thomas Award, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers Award, and on two occasions, the Daniel Emlyn Davies Award. In 2013 he won the prestigious Lyon and Healy Award and the first prize at both the Llangollen International Eisteddfod and the Pencerdd Gwalia Competition.
In 2017 Llywelyn performed the concerto In These Stones Horizons Sing alongside Gary Griffiths with world renowned composer Karl Jenkins hosted by the Milford Haven Music Festival. Apart from recent work with the Royal Opera House, he performs regularly with British Sinfonietta, British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and Southern Sinfonia. He has also performed a U.K. tour with the Russell Watson Orchestra. In 2016 he performed Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia in Salzburg during Mozart Week shortly after working with Vasily Petrenko in Norway.
He has performed for a variety of audiences and events including various Music clubs across the U.K. He performed for the Diamond Jubilee celebration of HRH Queen Elizabeth II and celebratory Wales Rugby Union events on numerous accounts. Other sporting events include hospitality engagements with the Football Association of Wales and the London 2012 Wales Olympic launch.
In April 2014 Llywelyn was chosen for the late Yehudi Menuhin’s Live Music Now scheme both as a soloist and in a duo with the soprano Jessica Robinson with whom he performed as part of the outreach programme at the Fishguard International Music Festival. The scheme has taken him to perform in many venues across Wales, Austria and Germany.
“Llywelyn commands the stage, the audience and his instrument, embracing it with powerful arms and hands, and hurling the sound into the ether with a power and confidence that is not often associated with the harp, or its typical repertoire.
This is no demure tinkling. Expect to be drawn to the very edge of your seat by the commitment, warmth and fluency of his playing.
Though he is still so youthful, Llywelyn’s unfaltering and courageous music-making will grab you by the ears, and will not let you go until the last note dies away.”
John Hardy 2018
