Music and mince pies - free concert at Ffwrnes, Llanelli

Music and Mince pies is a FREE music concert for older people on Monday 15th December at 2.30pm in the Ffrwnes Theatre in Llanelli.
The concert is sponsored by Western Power Distribution and Arts and Business Culture Step and features soprano Jessica Robinson and pianist Rhiannon Pritchard.
Mince pies and hot drinks will be served and this is your chance to attend a joyful festive event to help celebrate getting together and socialising over the festive period.
While the event is free, people do need to reserve a ticket via the Ffwrnes by phone or website, please ring 0845 2263510 or e-mail theatres@sirgar.gov.uk.
Although there may be space on the day for people to just turn up, it is better if you confirm your ticket in advance to ensure you have a seat. 


Jessica Robinson (soprano)
Jessica Robinson is a postgraduate student at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where her studies are supported by the Arts Council of Wales and the Elizabeth Evans Trust.
Jessica holds a first class Honours Degree from the RWCMD where she studied with Beatrice Unsworth and Jeffrey Howard, winning the Aneurin Davies Memorial Award, the Mansel Thomas Prize, the Margaret Tann Award and the Elias Soprano Award.
As an oratorio and concert soloist, Jessica has performed in a number of prestigious venues and regularly appears in concerts throughout the UK as guest artist with many of Wales’s most renowned male voice choirs.
Recent oratorio performances include Handel’s Messiah Vivaldi’s Gloria, Rutter’s Mass of the Children, Karl Jenkins’ Peace Makers and Joseph Parry’sEmmanuel.
Jessica performed her first operatic role as the Spirit in ‘Dido and Aeneas’ by Purcell with ‘Opera’r Ddraig’, scene credits include Despina (Cosi fan Tutti), Violetta (La Traviata) and the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro).
In March 2014 Jessica was selected to perform in China as part of a Welsh Government Scheme and toured the country introducing Welsh music. She has recently returned from the United States where she was the guest soloist with the Harry Ensemble.
Jessica was selected for the late Yehudi Menuhin’s Live Music Now scheme in April 2014.

Rhiannon Pritchard (piano)
Rhiannon graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2009 after studying for 4 years under the tutelage of Richard McMahon.
She was awarded the Seligman Award for her work as a repetiteur and vocal coach with WNYO in 2008, adding to the RWCMD Mansel Thomas prize and Accompanist Prize she won in 2007. More recently, she won Gwobr Goffa Eleri Evans, the accompanist prize at the National Eisteddfod 2010 in Ebbw Vale, and she and Richard Vaughan also won the Instrumental Duet competition at the same Eisteddfod.
Rhiannon was accepted for the late Yehudi Menuhin’s musician scheme, Live Music Now, in 2009, and performs all over the country in recitals, concerts and workshops. Other accompanying roles include the Urdd Eisteddfod, the Bryn Terfel Scholarship in 2011, 2012 and 2013, Cyfle Cothi and Llais i Gymru for S4C and Radio Cymru, Music in the Vale Competition and the Stuart Burrows Competition.
She is an avid member of the Cardiff choir CF1, who regularly take part in various concerts and competitions around the country, while her choral accompanying roles include CF1, Cardiff Blues Choir, City Voices Cardiff and Morriston RFC Male Voice Choir. Her choral roles have seen her travel to South Africa, America, Canada, Spain and Italy.
2014 sees her working further as a repetiteur for WNYO and WNO Max department, RWCMD and WIAV, accompanying for LMN, the Urdd and S4C, and being involved in many more concerts and recitals.

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