Summer Festival: Mared Williams and Gwenno Morgan
- Date
- Thursday 7 July 2022, 7:30pm-8:30pm
- Doors
- open from 7:00pm
Mared Williams (voice) Gwenno Morgan (piano)
Musical Theatre Set
Natural Woman - Carole King
Nothing stops another day - Ghost (Ballard, Stewart, Rubin)
So many people - Saturday Night (Stephen Sondheim)
She used to be mine - Waitress (Sara Bareilles)
House is not a home - Burt Bacharach, Hal David
Someone to watch over me - George Gershwin
On my own - Les Miserables
Originals set by Mared
Pontydd
Y Reddf
Something worth losing
Fade away
Dal ar y Teimlad
Pictures
Y Drefn
Let Me Go
Llif yr Awr
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Graduate Profile
Mared Williams
BA Music, graduated 2018
Mared is a Welsh singer-songwriter and actor sharing her time between Llannefydd (North Wales) and London. Having studied music at the University of Leeds until 2018, Mared found her love for songwriting, as well as performing with the University Big Band. Moving on to nurture her love for performance, she studied a masters in musical theatre performance at the Royal Academy Of Music, which led to her landing ensemble and understudy Eponine roles in the West End production of Les Miserables in 2019. Whilst shows came to a halt in 2020, Mared joined lockdown-formed musical theatre group ‘Welsh of the West End,’ and they have since been performing concerts across the country including the Royal Albert Hall and Britain's Got Talent. Mared’s debut, bilingual pop/folk album, ‘Y Drefn’ , was released with I KA Ching Records in 2020, and awarded Welsh Album of the Year 2021, which included live sessions of Mared performing her originals with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The album is a collection of nostalgic and heartfelt songs, written over the course of 7 years. Mared’s latest project in 2022 is soul-pop EP, ‘Something Worth Losing’, which is co-written and produced by Jamiroquai instrumentalist and solo artist, Nate Williams.
Graduate Profile
Gwenno Morgan
BMus, graduated 2021
Gwenno, 23, is a pianist and composer from Bangor, north Wales. She received piano lessons at William Mathias Music Centre from the late Ben Muskett, Sioned Webb and Iwan Llewelyn-Jones. She graduated with First Class Honours from the University of Leeds last summer, where she received piano lessons with Ian Buckle. Gwenno spent her academic year abroad in the USA, studying Piano Performance at the University of North Texas, under the tuition of Professor Joseph Banowetz. She is now studying for a Masters in Creative Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Last year, Gwenno released a self-produced EP, Cyfnos, on the I Ka Ching label. She also collaborated with Mared to write the music for Llif yr Awr, also released on I Ka Ching. Last October, she got to score a Welsh short film, ‘Hen Wragedd a Ffyn’, which was broadcasted on S4C, and was nominated for a 2022 Celtic Media Festival award. More recently, Gwenno was commissioned to write the music for a Welsh BBC Radio Cymru drama, ‘Lliwiau’r Symffoni’ ('Colours of the Symphony').
When not involved in music, Gwenno loves swimming outdoors and running, and loves spending time with her friends (and her cats) at home in Bangor.