We are delighted that Gwynedd Parry and Meinir Jones Parry have agreed to perform their debut evening together at Rhosygilwen of songs and tunes to welcome in the spirit of spring.

Gwynedd Parry has achieved notable success as a solo competitor on the Eisteddfod circuit and is the only singer to have won the Blue Ribbon at Gŵyl Fawr Aberteifi three times (2001, 2008, 2009). Another pinnacle was winning the Osborne Roberts Memorial Prize (Blue Ribbon for young singers) at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Bridgend in 1998.

Since then, he has performed as a soloist with choirs throughout Wales, including performances of choral works such as the Mozart Requiem, Faure Requiem, Stainer’s Crucifixion, Orff’s Carmina Burana and a concert performance of Joseph Parry’s operetta, ‘Blodwen’. Concert engagements have included solo performances at Huddersfield Town Hall, Brecon Cathedral and St. John’s Parish Church, Windsor. He has also appeared on S4C on programmes such as Noson Lawen and Dechrau Canu, Dechrau Canmol. This is his Rhos-y-Gilwen debut, and he is delighted to perform at this prestigious venue.

Meinir Jones Parry is a native of Cardigan. Her father was the renowned artist, Aneurin Jones, and her mother, Julie Jones, was an important influence on her early musical development. She had piano tuition with Stephen Pilkington and studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where she gained a B.Mus. degree and where she was awarded Distinction in her final piano recital. She later obtained a postgraduate diploma of the Royal Schools of Music (LRSM) with Distinction. A National Eisteddfod winner as a pianist, she is a qualified teacher, and was formerly Head of Music at Ysgol Dyffryn Teifi, Llandysul.

She is currently a freelance musician and music teacher. Her portfolio has included tutoring at University of Wales Trinity St. David, and music examiner and moderator for the Welsh Joint Education Committee. She has accompanied many of Wales’s leading soloists and successful choirs. In 2022, she was a music adjudicator at Eisteddfod y Wladfa in Trelew, Patagonia. She has been an official accompanist and an adjudicator at all the major national eisteddfodau on several occasions. She will be an official accompanist and adjudicator at this year’s National Eisteddfod, “Eisteddfod y Garreg Las”.

Meinir and Gwynedd are married and have three sons, Ifan, Tomos and Deio.