His Majesty the King's Harpist Recital: Mared Emyr Pugh-Evans

Programme:

Gareth Glyn: Erddigan

Marcel Grandjany: Colorado Trail

Gabriel Fauré: Impromptu

Grace Williams: Hiraeth

Nino Rota: Sarabanda e Toccata

John Thomas: Dafydd y Garreg Wen

Benjamin Britten: Suite for Harp

Marcel Grandjany: Rhapsodie

XXXX: ABCD (ft. Katie Taunton, flute)

XXXX: ABCD (ft. Katie Taunton, flute)

Biography:

Mared Emyr Pugh-Evans is an international prize-winning harpist from Borth, in mid-west Wales. She gained her MA (Performance) degree from the Royal Academy of Music in 2022, where she studied under Karen Vaughan. She also achieved her LRAM whilst studying for her final year and received a DipRAM certificate for her Final Performance. She graduated from RWCMD, Cardiff in 2020 with a First-Class (Honours) Bachelor of Music degree and also achieved her DipABRSM (Instrumental Teaching) certificate and was awarded the 2020 RWCMD Royal Welch Fusiliers Award and the Florence Mary Proctor Scholarship. In April 2025 she was inducted as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

Mared is honoured to have been appointed Harpist to His Majesty The King in the Summer of2024, with her first official engagement happening a few weeks later celebrating 25 years of Y Senedd in Cardiff. During her first year in this prestigious role she performed at numerous state banquets, in Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, and was also an invited guest at the Community Music Makers Reception at Windsor Castle. She has performed on S4C, Radio 4, Radio 3 and BBC One.

A regular recitalist on both the national and international stage, Mared has won numerous awards for her playing including 6 th Place HarpMasters Prize at the USA International Harp Competition, Bloomington in 2022 and Winner of the 2020 Sir Ian Stoutzker £10k Prize for the most outstanding musician at RWCMD.

After graduating from RAM, she was selected as an Open Academy Fellow, the Academy’s Community and Participation department, where her passion for this field of work blossomed. She is proud to not only be a Live Music Now musician but also a musician for Wigmore Hall’s community and participation department: Music for Life.

She has appeared as guest soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra under the baton of composer Patrick Hawes for a performance of his Highgrove Suite to a sell-out audience at Norwich Cathedral.

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