Meet Our Dedicated Choir Music Staff
Discover the passionate individuals whose voices and commitment bring our Welsh choral tradition to life.
D. Huw Rees BMus (Hons)
Musical Director
Huw Rees, a native of Swansea, studied music at Cardiff University where he studied piano under Stephen Price, voice with Clifford Bunford, organ with Robert Court and composition under Dr. Richard Elfyn Jones. During this time Huw became a member of the National Youth Choir of Wales and accompanist to several choirs in the Cardiff area. Huw has been associated with Morriston RFC Male Choir since 1990, first as the choir accompanist and in 2004 as its Musical Director. These commitments were honoured in 2005 with life membership and in May 2022 for his 32 years of service as accompanist and Musical Director. Huw also fullfills other duties as Joint Accompanist to Dunvant Male Choir and as an accompanist to Parti Llwchwr, and is in significant demand elsewhere to organisations such as Urdd Gobaith Cymru, S4C’s Dechrau Canu, Dechrau Canmol and others. Huw’s long standing commitment to the Urdd organisation stretches back to 1993 as an accompanist, Vice Chair of the 2018 Urdd Eisteddfod and adjudicator. He is Chair of the Music Committee in 2025 when the Urdd Eisteddfod comes to Margam, Neath Port Talbot. Huw’s conducting skills have found him conducting the massed male voice choirs at the opening concert of the National Eisteddfod in Swansea in 2006. Huw also had the honour of conducting his own arrangement of the West End song ‘This is the Moment’ from the musical Jekyll and Hyde at the Festival of Male Voice Choirs (1,000 voices) at the MEN Arena, Manchester. Also in 2012, Huw conducted the massed performers at the Interceltique Festival in Lorient, Brittany. Huw is by nature, a collaborative musician and in 2015 he worked with stars of Britain’s Got Talent including Richard and Adam, Julian Reynolds and the Latvian Opera Orchestra on the Number 1 Classical Album Chart with the CD ‘Believe: Songs of Inspiration’. In recognition of his past and on-going commitment to music in the Swansea and wider area, Huw attended a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace in the presence of the newly crowned King Charles.
Rhiannon Pritchard BMus (Hons)
Accompanist
Rhiannon is in demand as an accompanist all over Wales, and is an official accompanist for three of Wales’ main musical festivals: The National Eisteddfod, Llangollen International Eisteddfod and the Urdd Eisteddfod. She works as a repetiteur with Welsh National Opera’s Youth and Community department, and performs in many workshops and recitals. S
Siân Davies BMus(Hons)
Accompanist
Siân has appeared over many years as guest accompanist for singers such as Rebecca Evans, Gail Pearson, Donald Maxwell, Charlotte Church and others. A renowned musician and accompanist to many Welsh male choirs, we are delighted to have Siân with us.
Huw Tregelles Williams OBE, DL, Hon. D. Litt. MA, FRCO FRWCMD
President
A graduate of the University of Wales, Huw first joined the BBC as music producer. In 1985 he was appointed Head of Music at BBC Wales and was first Director of the newly-expanded and renamed BBC National Orchestra of Wales in 1993. Appointed OBE and Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama for service to music in Wales which has included membership of the Arts Council and the Council of the Royal College of Organists.