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St David's Hall is the National Concert Hall and Conference Centre of Wales. It hosts the annual Welsh Proms [ 6 ] and the biennial BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition . [ 7 ] As well as classical music it also plays host to jazz , soul , pop , rock , dance , children's , rhythm and blues , musicals and other forms of world music , as ...
The Metropolitan Cathedral Church of St David (Welsh: Eglwys Gadeiriol Fetropolitan Dewi Sant), also known as St David's Cathedral, Cardiff, is a Catholic cathedral in the city centre of Cardiff, Wales, and is the centre of the Archdiocese of Cardiff.
Blackwater Gallery, Prospect Place, Cardiff [12] Butetown History and Arts Centre (closed 2016), Cardiff Bay; Oriel Canfas, Canton - run by artists who were formerly based at the Old Library in Cardiff city centre until the late 1990s [13] [14] Cardiff MADE, Roath [15] [16] Gallery Celf, Bangor Street, Roath [17] Norwegian Church Arts Centre ...
The Welsh Proms Cymru is a week long series of classical music performances which take place at the national concert hall of Wales, St David's Hall, Cardiff in July each year. The Proms' Artistic Director is Owain Arwel Hughes CBE, who founded the Proms in 1986 and has remained in the post ever since. [1]
Opposite Howells is St David's Hall, a large concert hall and exhibition centre. Nearby is the Old Central Library, now a pub, wine bar and the Cardiff Visitors Centre. The Old Library will also be home to the Cardiff Story museum, opening in late 2010. Centrally located in The Hayes is a statue of John Batchelor – a 19th-century Liberal ...
The BBC NOW has its administrative base in Cardiff, at the BBC Hoddinott Hall on the site of the Wales Millennium Centre, since January 2009. [ 1 ] The BBC NOW is the orchestra-in-residence at St David's Hall , Cardiff , and also performs regularly throughout Wales and beyond, including international tours and annual appearances at the Royal ...
Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra was the first non-professional orchestra to perform at St David's Hall, Cardiff in 1983. CPO appears regularly at St David's Hall and since 1998 has performed an annual series of concerts of popular classics and film music. Soloists with whom CPO has performed at St David's Hall include Sir Geraint Evans, Bryn ...
The competition was started by BBC Wales in 1983 to celebrate the opening of St David's Hall in Cardiff, Wales, [3] home of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The creation of the competition was overseen by Geraint Stanley Jones, who was the controller at BBC Wales at the time. [6]