Meet the team
The choir is delighted to be led in its musical endeavours by two incredible musical talents.
Michael Wyn Jones
Musical Director
As well as singing in a number of well-respected choirs, including the BBC Symphony Chorus and the Exmoor Singers, Michael studied voice with Wynford Evans and Glyn Paul, and conducting at the Academie Internationale de Chant Choral with John Poole (formerly Musical Director of the BBC Singers), Stephen Jackson (Musical Director of the BBC Symphony Chorus) and Tecwyn Evans (Musical Director of Glyndebourne). He was also the man who held the baton at the Olympic Stadium in August 2012 before a crowd of 80,000 and a further one billion watching on television around the world.
Dafydd Chapman
Accompanist
Dafydd is in his third year at the Royal Academy of Music where he is on a scholarship studying classical piano. Originally from Cardiff, he spent most of his childhood studying at the Junior Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where he studied with Nicola Meecham for nine years. Outside of the RWCMD, Dafydd has competed in several competitions, including becoming a semi-finalist at the Gregynog Young Musician Competition and winning the national Urdd Eisteddfod three times. In 2012 and 2017, he also won the Piano Solo and the Repertoire classes at the Mid- Somerset Competitive Festival and also went on to win the Piano Concerto competition there in 2019.