Our Musical Director
After 20 years with FCS, our wonderful Musical Director, Gwyn Parry-Jones is stepping aside at the end of the Summer Term. If you are interested in applying for the position, please see the document below. CVs are invited by 12th June 2023. Should you have any questions about the role, please contact our secretary on the email address in the document.
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Gwyn Parry-Jones
Gwyn was born in Cardiff and trained at Manchester, studying music there at the University and the RNCM. As a professional performer, he has worked with many of the country's top orchestras, and has played under the baton of some of the world's greatest conductors, including Barbirolli, Giulini and Rattle.
Gwyn has been conductor of, among others, UC Salford Choral Society, the Berkshire Camerata and Reading University Choral Society. He has held academic posts at the Universities of Oxford, Keele, Gothenburg, and Reading.
He is also well known as an adjudicator, and has been Chairman of the adjudicating panel in the National Festival of Youth Orchestras at the Royal Festival Hall. In 1998 Gwyn was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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