Overview
Guto Pryderi Puw (b.1971) read Music at 亚洲色吧 under composers John Pickard, Pwyll ap Si么n and Andrew Lewis, gaining his PhD in Composition in 2002. He was appointed as a lecturer in 2006, concentrating mainly on Composition and Contemporary Music and was appointed as Head of Composition in 2015.
Puw first came to prominence after winning the Composer鈥檚 Medal at the National Eisteddfod in 1995 and for the second time in 1997. His music has been featured in many festivals around the UK and broadcast regularly on Radio and television. In February 2006 he became the inaugural Resident Composer with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with his Concerto for Oboe winning the Listeners鈥� Award category at the British Composer Awards in 2007 and 鈥樷�nyt agoraf y drws鈥︹�� (鈥榰nless I open the door鈥�) being premiered at the Proms during the same year, later to be chosen as the the 2nd finest orchestral work by a Welsh composer in the Gramophone magazine in 2015.
His first operatic commission, Y T诺r (鈥楾he Tower鈥�) based on the play by Gwenlyn Parry and with libretto by Gwyneth Glyn was successfully toured by Music Theatre Wales聽to critical acclaim throughout the UK in 2017.
He received the Sir Geraint Evans Award by the Welsh Music Guild for 鈥榟is significant contribution to Welsh music鈥� in 2013. Signum Records released a selection of his recent orchestral works on the CD Reservoirs in 2014. For many years Puw has been active in the promotion of new music in north Wales through his involvement with the 亚洲色吧 Music Festival, being one of its founding members and Artistic Director since 2000.
Additional Contact Information
Position: Head of Composition
Email: g.p.puw@bangor.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 1248 382173
Location:聽School of Music
Teaching and Supervision
- WXK1011 Composition Year 1
- WXK2233 Composition Year 2
- WXM2121 / WXM3121 Contemporary opera and music theatre
- WXM2189 / WXM3189 Ligeti
- WXP3288 / WXP3289 Composition Projects
- WMP4202 Composition in Context
- WMP4121 / WMP4122 / WMP4123 Composition Projects 1 and 2
Current PhD/MPhil students
- Sa Do Kim (Composition and Conducting)
- Zach Reading (Composition)
Research Interests
Composition.
Orchestration.
The music of John Me