Cor Meibion Llanelli’s annual St David’s Day concert (on Tuesday, March 1) will feature a special ‘premiere’.
The concert, at Theatr Elli (7pm), will showcase the first public performance of a song composed by Cor Meibion Llanelli musical director Eifion Thomas to commemorate the Llanelli Railway Riot of 1911.
“This year is, of course, the centenary of the railway riot, an event which still echoes down the years in Llanelli and has been the subject of a great deal of historical detective work.
“I have tried to capture the event in song and written Fe Ganwn Gan as a memorial tribute. This will be its first public performance and I hope the people of Llanelli will be well pleased with the result.”
Mr Thomas said the concert would feature a mix of traditional and new material by the choir.
The concert will also feature two young Welsh soloists.
Soprano Llio Evans is from Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, and is studying her MMus at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Llio has been successful outside college, having won the over 21 years solo at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, the Operatic Solo and the Blue Riband under 25 (Osbourne Roberts Memorial Award) in the National Eisteddfod, the under 25 solo and Pam Weaver scholarship at the Urdd Eisteddfod and she received the Scholarship for singers under 30 at the Anglesey Centenary Eisteddfod
Tenor Trystan Llŷr Griffiths is from Efailwen in Pembrokeshire. Trystan won a scholarship to Trinity College, Carmarthen, in 2005 to study a degree course in ‘Theatre, Music, and Media Studies’.
In the National Eisteddfod of Wales 2009 Trystan won the Osbourne Roberts award along with the London male voice choir scholarship, and he won the David Lloyd and Jean Skidmore scholarship for the most promising tenor.
