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Guto Pryderi Puw (b.1971) read Music at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ under composers John Pickard, Pwyll ap Siôn and Andrew Lewis, gaining his PhD in Composition in 2002. He was appointed as a lecturer in 2006, concentrating mainly on Composition and Contemporary Music and was appointed as Head of Composition in 2015.

Puw first came to prominence after winning the Composer’s Medal at the National Eisteddfod in 1995 and for the second time in 1997. His music has been featured in many festivals around the UK and broadcast regularly on Radio and television. In February 2006 he became the inaugural Resident Composer with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with his Concerto for Oboe winning the Listeners’ Award category at the British Composer Awards in 2007 and ‘…onyt agoraf y drws…’ (‘unless I open the door’) being premiered at the Proms during the same year, later to be chosen as the the 2^nd finest orchestral work by a Welsh composer in the Gramophone magazine in 2015.

His first operatic commission, Y Tŵr (‘The Tower’) based on the play by Gwenlyn Parry and with libretto by Gwyneth Glyn was successfully toured by Music Theatre Wales to critical acclaim throughout the UK in 2017.

He received the Sir Geraint Evans Award by the Welsh Music Guild for ‘his significant contribution to Welsh music’ in 2013. Signum Records released a selection of his recent orchestral works on the CD Reservoirs in 2014. For many years Puw has been active in the promotion of new music in north Wales through his involvement with the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ Music Festival, being one of its founding members and Artistic Director since 2000.

Position: Head of Composition

Email: g.p.puw@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 1248 382173

Location: School of Music

• WXK1011 Composition Year 1
• WXK2233 Composition Year 2
• WXM2121 / WXM3121 Contemporary opera and music theatre
• WXM2189 / WXM3189 Ligeti
• WXP3288 / WXP3289 Composition Projects
• WMP4202 Composition in Context
• WMP4121 / WMP4122 / WMP4123 Composition Projects 1 and 2

Current PhD/MPhil students

• Sa Do Kim (Composition and Conducting)
• Zach Reading (Composition)

Composition.

Orchestration.

The music of John Metcalf.

Gyorgy Ligeti.

Contemporary opera and music theatre.

2024

• Published
  Puw, G. (Other), 21 Apr 2024
  Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
• Published
  Puw, G. (Other), 22 Mar 2024
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2022

• Published
  Puw, G. (Other), 2022
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2021

• Published
  Puw, G. (Other), 2021
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2018

• Published
  Puw, G. (Other), 2018
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
• Published
  Puw, G. (Other), 28 Mar 2018
  Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
• Published
  Puw, G. (Other), 2018
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
• Published
  Puw, G. (Other), 26 Oct 2018
  Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

2017

• Published
  Puw, G. (Other), 2017
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
• Published
  Puw, G. (Other), 2017
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
• Published
  Puw, G. (Composer) & Glyn, G., 2017
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2016

• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 2016
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 2016
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 2016
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2010

• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2010
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2010
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2009

• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 3 Aug 2009
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 2 Oct 2009
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2007

• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 9 Aug 2007
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2007
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 16 Mar 2007
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2007
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2006

• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 27 Apr 2006
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2006
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2006
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2005

• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer) & Wright, E. (Composer), 1 Jan 2005
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2005
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2004

• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2004
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 7 May 2004
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2003

• Published
  Puw, G. P., 1 Jan 2003, In: Barn. 486/486, p. 42-45
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2003
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2001

• Published
  Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2001
  Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
• Published
  Puw, G. P., 1 Jan 2001, In: Barn. 455/456, p. 44-47
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2024

• 1 day CPD workshop for post-16 music teachers on using 'speech-to-song' techniques to teach composition in a classroom setting

  18 Jun 2024

  Activity: Types of Business and Community - CPD delivery/organisation of courses for externals (in kind) (Presenter)

2017

• Fideos sy'n hyrwyddo perfformiad a thaith Y Tŵr.

  10 Apr 2017 – 19 Jul 2017

  Links:

  Activity: Other (Contributor)