Award winning local singer Timothy Evans and Golwg editor and director Dylan Iorwerth have been inaugurated as honorary fellows of the University of Wales Lampeter on St David’s Day.
Timothy Evans is known as one of the great tenors of Wales: indeed some say that he has the best tenor voice that Wales has ever produced. Timothy first came to prominence in the National and Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfodau, winning the tenor solo competition at the National Eisteddfod on five occasions. He has won the Llangollen “International Singer of the Year” competition three times, on one occasion beating the world famous bass baritone Bryn Terfel. Timothy has entertained audiences as far afield as Australia, Hong Kong and the U.S. as well as throughout Wales and through his TV and radio appearances.
Timothy’s love of his home has been stronger than the call for success in the singing world and he has turned down offers of places at music colleges and recording contracts abroad. Timothy lives in Lampeter where he continues to release albums and fulfill his passion for breeding sheep and other animals, as well as collecting cranberry glass.
Dylan Iorwerth is a highly respected Welsh journalist. After graduating from university, Dylan joined the Wrexham Leader newspaper before moving to the news department at BBC Radio Cymru and later serving as BBC Wales’ political correspondent in London, and founding the first-ever Welsh language Sunday newspaper, Sulyn.
In 1988, Dylan founded the Welsh language weekly news magazine Golwg, which in 2009 also launched the Golwg360 website offering daily Welsh and international news in Welsh.
Dylan has also been awarded the Crown at the National Eisteddfod, one of the most coveted awards. At the 2000 Llanelli National Eisteddfod, Dylan was awarded the Crown in a ceremony overseen by the Gorsedd of Bards for his sequence of poems on the subject of “Tywod” (“Sand”).
In recognition of these achievements, the University is proud to welcome both Dylan Iorwerth and Timothy Evans as an Honorary Fellows.
