Guto Puw

Guto Pryderi Puw (born 1971) is a Welsh composer, university lecturer and conductor. He is considered to be one of the most prominent Welsh composers of his generation and a key figure in current Welsh music. Puw studied music composition at Bangor University with John Pickard, Andrew Lewis and Pwyll ap Siôn. Puw was awarded with a MMus degree in 1996 and a PhD degree in 2002. He was the founding member and conductor for , a Welsh-language choir based in Y Felinheli near Bangor. Puw has received commissions from (amongst others) BBC Radio 3, the Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams, the Bangor New Music Festival and the North Wales International Music Festival. He was a founding member and the artistic director of the Bangor Music Festival, a festival for new music in north Wales founded in 2000. He received the Tlws y Cerddor award from the Welsh Music Guild. Music Welsh links Puw’s music is rooted in the language and literature of Wales, with a particular affinity to the poetry of R. S. Thomas. Welsh titles and settings of poetry in Welsh, such as Mecanwaith, Dawns y Sêr, and … onyt agoraf y drws …, feature in his work. He has won the Composer’s Medal at the National Eisteddfod