Iwan Davies
CONDUCTOR
ABOUT
Welsh conductor Iwan Davies trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio in London, where he participated in a variety of performances in collaboration with Opera North, Scottish Opera and Welsh National Opera.
He was a staff conductor at the Salzburger Landestheater, where he conducted the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg in performances of La Gazzetta (Rossini), The Trial (Glass), Wiener Blut (Strauss), and My Fair Lady. He is currently Music Director of OPRA Cymru, for whom he conducted the world premiere of Gareth Glyn's Welsh-language opera, Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd, and Beethoven’s Fidelio. Most recently, he conducted the orchestra of Welsh National Opera in a recording of Gareth Glyn’s second opera, Un Nos Ola Leuad. He is also Head of Music at the Buxton International Festival, where in 2021 he led a critically-acclaimed production of Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon.
In 2022 he will conduct Donizetti’s Viva la Diva for the Buxton International Festival, as well as La bohème and The Golden Cockerel for English Touring Opera.
COACHING
A passionate and committed coach, Iwan began studying singing with Buddug Verona James in 1999, and was a prize-winner at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. Combining this experience with his work as an accompanist and conductor, he works with singers on voice, interpretation, and language, and is dedicated to helping singers of all levels to achieve their full potential. Please enquire for further details.
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DIARY
11/03/22
La bohème - English Touring Opera, Lighthouse Poole
17/03/22
La bohème - English Touring Opera, Buxton Opera House
18/03/22
La bohème - English Touring Opera, Buxton Opera House
4/04/22
La bohème - English Touring Opera, Lyceum Theatre Sheffield
8/04/22
La bohème - English Touring Opera, York Theatre Royal
10/04/22
Strauss, Beethoven, Errollyn Wallen - Philomusica of Aberystwyth
7/05/22
The Golden Cockerel, English Touring Opera, Snape Maltings
17/05/22
The Golden Cockerel, English Touring Opera, Congress Theatre Eastbourne
10/07/22
Viva la Diva, Buxton International Festival
14/07/22
Viva la Diva, Buxton International Festival
19/07/22
Viva la Diva, Buxton International Festival
23/07/22
Viva la Diva, Buxton International Festival
21/07/22
Viva la Diva, Buxton International Festival
