WREXHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Huw Gareth Williams - Conductor

Huw Gareth Williams was born in Wrexham in 1974. He studied at Ysgol Rhiwabon Comprehensive School and was an active participant in the schools musical programme. In 1993 Huw Gareth continued his musical education at the University of Wales, Cardiff where he studied composition under Anthony Powers and Richard Elfyn Jones and began his conducting studies under Gareth Jones of Welsh National Opera. He was also the winner of the Morfydd Owen Prize and the John Morgan Lloyd Scholarship.

In 1996 Huw Gareth won the coveted single place on the post-graduate conductor's course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where he studied under Martyn Brabbins for two years. Whilst at the RSAMD he was awarded two Arts Council of Wales grants for continuing study and won the Post Office Young Conductor's Award, and studied in intensive masterclasses under Alexander Polischuk, Sian Edwards and Osmo Vanska.

Huw Gareth was a finalist in the BB C Young Musicians '98 Young Conductors' Workshops and since graduating from the RSAMD has worked as a professional conductor. He has worked successfully with many orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia 21.

Huw is a committed exponent of contemporary music and has already given numerous world premieres including that of Richard Whitelaw's New Radiant Objects last summer. He is currently conductor of the UWC Contemporary Music Group, Musical Director of the Cardiff Sinfonia and Musical Director of the Bridgend County Borough Youth Theatre with whom he conducted Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story to great critical acclaim.

Future engagements include performances at the Millennium Dome and also on tour in Poland and Hungary next year.

November 1999

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