Concerts & Events

Chamber Music Concert

Thursday 16 October 2025,  7:45pm, Powis Hall, Bangor University

A celebration of French chamber music for instruments and voice, featuring groundbreaking piano trios by Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Ravel alongside beautiful art songs and operatic arias by Cécile Chaminade, and Georges Bizet.

Erin Gwyn Rossington (soprano), Iwan Llewelyn-Jones (piano), Sara Trickey (violin),
Rosie Biss (cello).

£15 // £13 // £5

Remembering Erik Satie 1866-1925

Tim Ward (voice), Angharad Price (narrator), Iwan Llewelyn-Jones (piano)

Friday 17 October 2025,  1:00pm – 1:45pm, Stiwdio 1 Galeri

How much do you know about the remarkable French composer, Erik Satie (1866-1925)? Although a century has passed since his death, his music feels as fresh and modern as ever.

Discover more about his beautiful and groundbreaking compositions in the company of Iwan Llewelyn-Jones and Tim Ward, as they perform a series of songs such as Je te veux (1903) and Le Piccadilly (1904), as well as Satie’s well-known piano pieces, Gymnopèdie no.1 a Gnossienne no.1. The author, Angharad Price, will introduce the performers and tell us more about the life of this extraordinary composer who had so much influence on the musicians today.

Einaudi Workshop (Adults)

with Holly Shone

Friday 17 October 2025,  2:15pm – 3:45pm Stiwdio 1 Galeri

(This event is in English)

Pianothon

with Holly Shone

Friday 17 October 2025,  3:45pm – 5:00pm, Galeri Foyer

Community Concert

Festival Commission ‘Madam Wen’

Friday 17 October 2025,  7:00pm, Theatr Galeri Caernarfon

A concert featuring the world premiere of a brand new musical adaptation of one of Wales’ most iconic adventure novels, Madam Wen. Set in Anglesey in the early 18th century, the plot embraces action, excitement, highwaymen, smugglers, and at its centre, the beguiling and mysterious heroine, Madam Wen.

Manon Wyn Williams (script & narrator), Guto Puw (composer), Catrin Williams (creative designer).

Glesni Rhys Jones (soprano), Elain Rhys Jones (piano), Angharad Wyn Jones (piano), Dewi Ellis Jones (percussion).

Grŵp Lleisiol ac Offerynnol Ysgol Gynradd Bodedern –
Nia Wyn Efans (conductor)

£12 // £10 // £5

Dylan Cernyw (Harpist)

Saturday 18 October 2025,  1:00pm – 1:45pm, Foyer Galeri Caernarfon

He has been an accompanist at the National Eisteddfod, Urdd and the Cerdd Dant Music Festival since 1995. He appeared as a guest at the Festival of a Thousand Voices in London and has performed with artists such as Bryn Terfel, Katherine Jenkins, John Owen Jones, Shân Cothi, Rhys Meirion, Rhydian Roberts just to name a few.

Gwilym Simcock

Saturday 18 October 2025,  7:45pm, Theatr Galeri Caernarfon

Hailed as a pianist of ‘exceptional’, ‘brilliant’ and ‘dazzling’ ability, Gwilym Simcock moves effortlessly between jazz and classical music, with a ‘harmonic sophistication and subtle dovetailing of musical traditions’. In the words of jazz legend, Chick Corea: “Gwilym’s an original. A creative genius”.

£21 // £19 // £10

Act II

Saturday 18 October 2025, 9:15pm – 10:00pm, Foyer Galeri Caernarfon

Stephen Rees (keyboard & violin)

Owen Lloyd-Evans (bass)

Wyn Pearson (guitar)

Junior Solo Piano Competition Final

Sunday 19 October 2025,  2:00pm, Theatr Galeri Caernarfon

£5 / school age children free

Kathryn Stott Masterclass

Sunday 19 October 2025, 5:30pm – 7:00pm, Stiwdio 1

This Master Class is for the senior pianists not selected to go through to the Final Stage

Final of the Senior Piano Solo Competition

Monday 20 October 2025,  11:15am, Theatr Galeri Caernarfon

£10 / £15 for both finals

Final of the Accompaniment Competition

Monday 20 October 2025,  2:30pm, Theatr Galeri Caernarfon

£10 / £15 for both finals