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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 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]
The first municipal building in St Davids. The first municipal building in St Davids was made possible by a local land owner, David Griffiths, who agreed to grant a 99-year lease over a site in New Street for a concert and lecture hall. [1] The building was designed in the vernacular style, built in rubble masonry and was completed in 1866.
St Davids or St David's [1] [2] (Welsh: Tyddewi, [tiː ˈðɛwi], lit. "David's house”) is a cathedral city [3] in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It lies on the River Alun and is part of the community of St Davids and the Cathedral Close. [4] It is the resting place of Saint David, Wales's patron saint, and named after him.
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Saint David (Welsh: Dewi Sant) was born in Caerfai, southwest Wales into an aristocratic family.[1] [2] He was reportedly a scion of the royal house of Ceredigion, [3] and founded a Celtic monastic community at Glyn Rhosyn (The Vale of Roses) on the western headland of Pembrokeshire (Welsh: Sir Benfro) at the spot where St Davids Cathedral stands today.
St David's (Welsh: Dewi Sant), previously known as St David's Shopping Centre, is one of the principal shopping centres in the city centre of Cardiff, Wales. It is in The Hayes area of the southern city centre. Following the extension of St David's 2 in 2009, St David's is the third busiest shopping centre in the United Kingdom.
The monastic community was founded by Saint David, Abbot of Menevia, who died in 589. Between 645 and 1097, the community was attacked many times by raiders, including the Vikings; however it was of such note as both a religious and an intellectual centre that King Alfred summoned help from the monastic community at St Davids in rebuilding the intellectual life of the Kingdom of Wessex.