Angharad Gruffydd Jones

Angharad studied languages at Clare College, Cambridge, before winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in 1999, to study with Margaret Kingsley.

She came second in the 1999 Young Welsh Singer of the Year, and was awarded the 2000 Miriam Licette Scholarship for French Song, which funded several short periods of study in France. Her studies at the RCM were supported by awards from the Arts Council of Wales and the Musicians Benevolent Fund.

Angharad has a wide concert experience both as a consort singer and soloist, working with conductors including Ivor Bolton, Richard Hickox, Robert King, Sir Roger Norrington and Peter Schreier, in repertoire from Bach and Handel to Samuel Barber.

Recent engagements include Handel L’Allegro ed il Pensieroso under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Vespers in Washington DC under Harry Christophers, Handel Dixit Dominus at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert, Purcell at the Wigmore Hall under Robert King, Beethoven Mass in C in York Minster, and Handel Acis and Galatea with the Brook Street Band.

Operatic roles include Despina (Cosi fan Tutte), Lucy (Menotti The Telephone) and Giannetta (L’Elisir d’Amore), and a critically acclaimed performance of Dorinda (Handel Orlando) for Cambridge Handel Opera Group.

Performances in 2003 include Mahler Symphony no 4 and Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire at St James’ Piccadilly with the New Professionals Ensemble, Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ in the Cambridge Festival, Bach St John Passion in York Minster, and Iris in Handel Semele for the Buxton Festival.