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.