Busy autumn season for Llanelli's 'Hywel choirs'


Conductor John Hywel Williams and the Hywel Girls’ Choir & Hywel Boy Singers are enjoying a stellar Autumn season.
In addition to an exciting concert schedule, the Hywel Choir will be seen by millions on national and international television on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
On Christmas Eve, the choir will appear on BBC Breakfast and other domestic and international BBC news programmes during Christmas Eve as part of the remembrance of the famous WW1 Christmas Truce.
On Christmas Day, the choir will be seen and heard on “Frozen at Christmas” on UK Channel 4, a documentary about the making of Disney’s Frozen which will also feature the makers and actors behind the Disney phenomenon.
The choir will be filming for this during October.
In addition to their TV appearances, John Hywel Williams and his choristers will next be heard in concert on 1 November at a sell-out St. David’s Hall at the Wales Festival of Remembrance with international singing star Katherine Jenkins.
The choir will then appear at Y Ffwrnes on 22 November with Pontarddulais Male Choir and BBC Wales’ Beverley Humphreys for “Début” the album launch concert of Wales Opera Star Gary Griffiths.
On 27 November, the Hywel Choristers will head to London to perform at the country’s premier concert hall, the Royal Albert Hall as part of a celebrity line up for the international Christmas Gala with the Salvation Army where the choir will perform an exciting programme including the Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus, O Holy night and Walking in the Air to a 5,000+ strong audience.
On 6 December, the Hywel Choristers will present their landmark Christmas Fantasia with their resident orchestra the British Sinfonietta Symphony Orchestra and massed voices of the Llanelli Choral Society and Morriston RFC Choir.

LLANELLI CHORAL SOCIETY NEWS:
Further to their successful participation in the recent THE TOWN REMEMBERS with the Hywel Choir, the Llanelli Choral Society will next perform at the Brangwyn Hall Swansea on 8 November as part of the Royal British Legion’s Remembrance Concert.
The Llanelli Choral Society will then enjoy a festive performance as part of the exciting Christmas Fantasia on 6 December with the Hywel Choir and the British Sinfonietta Symphony Orchestra.

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