• This CPDL Visitor ChoralWiki, updated daily, permits unrestricted downloads and no-edit viewing •
• To submit scores or edit pages, register/log in and you'll be redirected to the Contributor ChoralWiki

Meirion Wynn Jones

From ChoralWiki

Jump to: navigation, search

Life

Born: Llangollen, North Wales May 10 1972

Email: meirionwj300[AT]hotmail.com

Biography: Welsh composer and organist. Studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London with Nicholas Danby and Naji Hakim. Awarded the Durrant, Limpus and Shinn prizes for organ-playing by the Royal College of Organists. Organ Scholar at Winchester Cathedral and Westminster Abbey before moving to Liverpool as Organist of the Metropolitan Cathedral, where he participated in frequent broadcasts and recordings. Subsequently Organist of the Birmingham Oratory and the Priory Church, Abergavenny, before taking up his present position as Assistant Organist at Brecon Cathedral.

Works include anthems, mass and canticle-settings, Christmas carols, hymn-tunes, psalm-chants and organ works. Solo vocal works include the tenor song-cycle, "Tair Cân Serch" (awarded first prize at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 2004). His men's voice motet, "Ave Regina caelorum" received its first broadcast performance on BBC Radio 3 in February 2003.

Recent commissions have included a motet for the centenary celebrations at Douai Abbey, Reading and a setting of "Llyn y Gadair" as a vocal test-piece for the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in 2006.

List of choral works

Legend.gif      Broken.gif = BROKEN LINK    Icon_pdf.gif = PDF FILE   Icon_snd.gif = MIDI FILE   Icon_ps.png = POSTSCRIPT FILE   Music Program = NOTATION FILE
Network.png = EXTERNAL SITE (DISCLAIMER)   Icon_pdf_globe.gif = EXTERNAL PDF FILE   Icon_snd_globe.gif = EXTERNAL MIDI FILE   Error.gif = SCORE ERROR   Question.gif = HELP

Publications

External links

Personal tools