

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Celebrating the work of Sir Karl Jenkins
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 09 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: Sir Karl Jenkins is a renowned Welsh composer and musician, celebrated for his ability to blend classical traditions with contemporary and world music influences. Born in 1944 in Penclawdd, Wales, he first gained wide recognition as a jazz and rock musician before achieving international fame as a composer of choral and orchestral works. Jenkins is best known for compositions such as Adiemus, The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, and Stabat Mater, which are widely performed across the world. His music is noted for its accessibility, emotional impact, and use of diverse languages and musical styles. In recognition of his contribution to music, he was knighted in 2015, becoming Sir Karl Jenkins.

Admission Fees:
Reserved central aisle seats - £60
Unreserved central aisle - £50
Unreserved side pews - £40
 
Programme includes:
Te Deum, Cantilena from Adiemus, Solitude from Peacemakers, Allegretto from Palladio, Benedictus from The Armed Man and Cantata Memoria

 Featuring:
- British Sinfonietta

The British Sinfonietta is one of the UK’s leading independent professional orchestras. The orchestra is involved in a variety of engagements including classical concerts, choral concerts, televised events, studio recording sessions and film screenings with live soundtracks.

In recent years the orchestra performed extensively in England, Scotland and Wales as well as visiting Western Europe. Highlights include the televised world premiere of Adiemus Colores by Sir Karl Jenkins at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, screenings of Casablanca at the Royal Opera House in London, Video Games Live in Glasgow, London and Manchester, screenings of Home Alone in Denmark, and the London Welsh Festival of Male Choirs at a sold out Royal Albert Hall in London.

- King’s Lynn Festival Chorus

Kings Lynn Festival Chorus is a dynamic and engaging choir drawing members from across Norfolk and neighbouring counties.

The ensemble was founded in 1977 for a performance in the King’s Lynn Festival, conducted by Christopher Hogwood. Some fifty years on, the Chorus enjoys a busy schedule of concerts and events and a prominent position on the landscape of the region’s music-making.

With Music Director Ben Horden, the Chorus performs from an extensive and wide-ranging repertoire and does so with a commitment and enthusiasm enjoyed by its warm and receptive audiences.

- Norwich School Choir

The Norwich School choir is a vibrant musical program with several ensembles, including the main School Choir (over 100 members) and the elite Chamber Choir, known for performing complex pieces and collaborating with the Norwich School Choral Society for large-scale concerts at venues like Norwich Cathedral. These choirs offer opportunities for pupils from age 15 to 80+, featuring diverse repertoires from classical to contemporary, and also involve outreach with local state schools for collaborative musical experiences.
Benedict Holland (violin)

Benedict Holland studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Manoug Parikian and was subsequently a prize winner at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he studied with Yossi Zivoni.

As a chamber musician, he was a founder member of the Matisse Piano Quartet and the Music Group of Manchester, and is currently a member of the virtuoso chamber ensemble I Musicanti and together with friends David Greed, Heather Wallington and Jen Langridge, of the Victoria Quartet.

As an experienced orchestral leader, he has guest-led many of the UK’s major orchestras, including the Hallé, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Northern Sinfonia, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Ensemble, Orchestra of Opera North and BBC Philharmonic and until 2023, he was the violinist and occasional violist with the contemporary ensemble Psappha.

Ben has always put teaching at the heart of his work, at the RNCM where he was awarded a professorship in 2016. He also teaches a class of talented young violinists at the Junior RNCM and gives consultative classes in orchestral and contemporary techniques at Trinity Laban Conservatoire where he is a visiting artist.

- Joo Yeon Sir (violin)

Described by The Strad as "exuberant... seductive... with bravura and oodles of personality", prize-winning violinist and composer Joo Yeon Sir has appeared as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia, and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras, at venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, and Liverpool Symphony Hall.

Born in Korea, Joo Yeon moved to London at the age of 9, to begin her formative training at the Purcell School of Music, where she now teaches, as well as at the Royal College of Music’s Junior Department. Her time at Purcell was followed by degree studies at the Royal College of Music, under the tutelage of long-time mentor, Dr. Felix Andrievsky. During this period, Joo Yeon won the prestigious BBC/Guardian Young Composer of the Year Award, the Royal College of Music’s President’s Award, and has since received numerous prizes of note, including the Royal Philharmonic Society’s ‘Emily Anderson Award’.

She has performed recitals at Wigmore Hall and Bridgewater Hall, with pianist Irina Andrievsky, and is regularly featured on the BBC, Classic FM, Scala, RTE, and France Musique Radios. Music from her latest album, Solitude, has recently been heard all the way in Arizona, US.

In addition to the two works Sir Karl Jenkins composed especially for her - Lament for the Valley and Chatterbox! - Joo Yeon performed on the 2016 Deutsche Gramophone recording of Jenkins’s ‘Cantata Memoria: For the Children’ - a musical commemoration of the Aberfan Disaster, 1966.

- Adrian Bradbury (cello)

Adrian Bradbury was principal cello in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain before winning scholarships to Churchill College, Cambridge (where he read Veterinary Science and Music) and then to the Royal Academy of Music. After further study in Berlin he developed an international career in chamber music as the cellist in Composers Ensemble, Jane’s Minstrels, Trio Gemelli, Touchwood Piano Quartet and Chamber Domaine, winning a Royal Philharmonic Society Chamber Award and giving world premieres of solos and chamber works by Thomas Adès, Guy Barker, Judith Bingham, Tansy Davies, Dai Fujikura, James MacMillan, Naresh Sohal, Hugh Wood and John Woolrich.

Adrian is a regular guest principal player with orchestras including BBC Symphony Orchestra, English National Opera, Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, London Symphony Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and is Cello Tutor for the National Youth Orchestra.

His research into ensemble synchronisation, in collaboration with Professor Alan Wing, is published by the Royal Society and led to invitations to curate a ‘Music and Brain’ series at the Aldeburgh Festival and to appear as speaker on BBC Radio 4’s ‘PM’ and ‘Today’ programmes and on Radio 3.

- Alis Huws (harp)

Former Official Royal Harpist (2019-2024), Alis Huws is a freelance soloist, orchestral and chamber musician. She regularly gives recitals across the UK and internationally, having performed at prestigious venues worldwide. She is an exclusive Decca Classics recording artist, having collaborated with Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Jess Gillam. Her latest EP, Cosy Nights by the Fire is out now on all streaming platforms.

Named on Classic FM’s 30 under 30 Rising Stars list for 2024, some recent highlights include appearing as a soloist with the Philharmonia Orchestra at Classic FM Live at the Royal Albert Hall and recording on the Gramophone Award Nominated album - Britten’s Canticles - with tenor James Way.

Alis champions living composers, and has given several world and UK premieres to date, including a new work by Alice Beckwith for Tenor and Harp commissioned for her and Mark Padmore. She is excited to collaborate with composer Cameron Biles-Liddell on a new harp concerto which will premiere with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in 2026.

Alis was privileged to perform at His Majesty King Charles III’s Coronation at Westminster Abbey. She performed Sir Karl Jenkins’ arrangement of Tros y Garreg (Crossing the Stone) for solo harp and strings, as well as being a part of the prestigious Coronation Orchestra, formed specially for the occasion. Other high-profile engagements include the Welsh National Service of Prayer and Reflection for HM Queen Elizabeth II, The Royal Opening of the Senedd 2016 and 2021, The Welsh National Thanksgiving Service for VJ Day and the opening of the Welsh Government’s offices in Berlin. In 2019 she appeared as a soloist with Britten Sinfonia, which was later broadcast on Classic FM. Her work has been broadcast on TV and Radio across the world.

Alis is passionate about bringing music into communities, and gives regular interactive concerts for people living with dementia as well as working with children with additional needs. In 2023,  she embarked on a tour of 30 primary schools across rural Powys to celebrate 30 years of Live Music Now’s work in Wales, and currently holds a weekly residency at a SEND school. It has become her mission to include some wider community work to coincide with any recital performances.

- Khrystyna Makar (soprano)

Ukrainian-born soprano 

Khrystyna Makar is a Ukrainian-born soprano, celebrated for her vocal brilliance, dramatic versatility, and captivating stage presence. She has performed widely across Europe in concert halls, opera houses, and festivals, presenting a diverse repertoire that spans classical opera, contemporary works, and art song.

Her operatic roles include: 

Gilda in Rigoletto by Verdi 
Nedda in Pagliacci by Leoncavallo 
Donna Anna in Don Giovanni by Mozart 
Violetta in La Traviata by Verdi, concert performances 
Mimi in La Bohème by Puccini 
First Lady in Die Zauberflöte by Mozart 
She regularly collaborates with North Wales Opera Company &amp; Studio.

Khrystyna is a sought-after concert soloist and has appeared with ensembles such as the Chester Philharmonic Orchestra, Wrexham Symphony Orchestra, New Sinfonia, and K&amp;K Philharmoniker. Her concert repertoire includes Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Handel’s Messiah, and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time.

She has also given solo recitals of Ukrainian and baroque repertoire at venues including the University of Oxford and the Lviv National Philharmonic.

In 2024, Khrystyna created the role of Gwyneth in the world premiere of the opera Up From Underground with New Sinfonia. The role was reprised in 2025, and she will return to it for a third tour in February–March 2026 with New Sinfonia and Gresford Opera.

In May 2026, Khrystyna will perform the role of Gilda in Rigoletto with North Wales Opera Company &amp; Studio. She has also been invited by Music in the Burnhams to sing as soprano soloist in Sir Karl Jenkins’ cantata Memoria with the King’s Lynn Festival Chorus and British Sinfonietta, a particularly special engagement celebrating music of memory, spirituality, and emotional depth.

- Paul Carey Jones (bass baritone)

 “The UK’s most convincing heldenbariton right now.” — Hugh Canning, Opera magazine 

Welsh-Irish bass-baritone Paul Carey Jones has appeared as a principal guest artist for opera companies across the UK and Europe. He was the winner of the 2013 Wagner Society Singing Competition and was recently elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in recognition of his contribution to the classical music industry. 

A growing reputation in the three manifestations of Wotan in Wagner’s Ring Cycle has seen him appear extensively in these roles to critical acclaim, most recently for Longborough Festival Opera in the summer of 2024, where Opera Now hailed him as “one of the finest Wotans of our time”. 

His other heldenbariton roles include Der Holländer, Der Fliegende Holländer, Hans Sachs, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Kurwenal, Tristan und Isolde, Amfortas, Parsifal, Donner, Das Rheingold, Gunther, Götterdämmerung, Peter, Hänsel und Gretel, Dr. Schön / Jack the Ripper, Lulu. Beyond German repertoire, his roles have included Scarpia, Tosca, Marcello La Bohème, Lescaut Manon Lescaut, Nick Shadow The Rake's Progress, Don Alfonso Così Fan Tutte, Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro, title role Don Giovanni, Sprecher Die Zauberflöte, the Forester The Cunning Little Vixen, Noye Noye’s Fludde, and Balstrode Peter Grimes. 

His operatic work includes appearances for the Royal Ballet and Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Northern Ireland Opera, and Opera Holland Park. Teatro Rossini di Lugo, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Comunale Bolzano, Gothenburg Opera, Wexford Festival Opera, and the Icelandic Opera. Other highlights include the title role in the Chinese premiere of Britten’s Noye’s Fludde in Beijing and Shanghai, Balstrode in the Baltic premiere of Peter Grimes for Estonian National Opera, and the world premieres of John Metcalf’s Under Milk Wood, Stephen McNeff’s The Burning Boy, Stuart MacRae’s Prometheus Symphony, and Gareth Glyn’s Tanau’r Lloer. 

Paul Carey Jones also has extensive experience as a concert soloist. His oratorio repertoire includes over fifty major works, including Mendelssohn's Elijah, Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony, Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Bach's John and Matthew Passions. As a recitalist, he has formed ongoing collaborations in recital and recording with the pianists Llyr Williams, Julius Drake, Ian Ryan, Jocelyn Freeman, Helen Collyer and Aleksandra Myslek. 

His extensive discography includes three solo song albums, Enaid - Songs of the Soul for Sain, Songs Now for Meridian, and Song Lied Cân for Ty Cerdd, the title role in Arwel Hughes’ Dewi Sant and Grace Williams’s Missa Cambrensis with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, as well as the original cast recording of Hedd Wyn 2117 (Stephen McNeff / Gruff Rhys), and the original cast recording of Under Milk Wood (John Metcalf / Dylan Thomas). 

A committed advocate of twentieth-century and contemporary music, he has given the premiere performances of operas, symphonies, songs and song cycles by composers including Stuart MacRae, John Metcalf, Jonathan Dove, Stephen McNeff, Sadie Harrison, Brian Irvine, Gavin Higgins, Gareth Glyn, and Emily Hall. 

Paul Carey Jones works regularly as an audition panel member, media commentator, competition adjudicator and increasingly as a teacher, coach and mentor. Recent work in these capacities has included engagements for BBC Cymru/Wales, S4C, the National Eisteddfod of Wales, and the Bryn Terfel Scholarship. 

As an author, his critically acclaimed first book of essays, Giving It Away — Classical Music in Lockdown and other fairytales, was hailed by Opera magazine as “a powerful traversal of life in the pandemic”, and was followed by its sequel Things Left Unsaid, published in December 2025. He is currently a doctoral researcher at the University of Westminster, funded by a prestigious Quintin Hogg Trust studentship, examining approaches to the use of Artificial Intelligence in the field of professional vocal healthcare. and he is a published academic author in the field. 

His other interests include data-driven analysis of the issues facing performing arts freelancers in the UK as a core member of Freelancers Make Theatre Work, and he is co-author of Making Freelance Work, a new book examining these issues scheduled for release in 2026 by Bristol University Press.

- Dan Thomas (euphonium)

Born in Abergavenny and raised in Rhymney in the valleys of South Wales, Daniel effectively started his musical association with brass bands when he signed up for peripatetic brass lessons in Blaenau Gwent at Abertillery Comprehensive. His first band was the now reformed Ebbw Vale Town Band, a local fourth-section band that regularly came recruiting into local schools.

Daniel competed in his first National Finals in 2009, aged just fifteen sitting on principal euphonium. 2009 was also the year that he successfully auditioned for the National Youth Brass Band of Wales and worked with such distinguished musicians as Stephen Cobb, Nicholas Childs, and Edward Gregson.

In 2010, he won the local Caerphilly Young Musician of The Year competition, beating 140 musicians from schools throughout South Wales. 2010 was also the year that Daniel joined the Cory Band, spending a fulfilling year in the band before sadly leaving due to academic commitments. He transferred to play for local rivals,

Tredegar, and is very proud to have participated in the band’s British Open win of 2013, achieving the Best Euphonium prize on this memorable day.

Following another spell with the Cory Band, he moved to Manchester to study at the Royal Northern College of Music. He joined the Black Dyke Band, taking over from Ian Yates as the band’s second euphonium.

Since starting his studies in Manchester, Daniel has participated in and won both the BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Award and the Euphonium Artist Competition at the ITEC (International Tuba Euphonium Conference) festival, held in Knoxville, Tennessee.

He became Black Dyke’s Solo Euphonium in December 2016, occupying the seat previously held by many of his playing idols. In 2017, Daniel won the Best Instrumentalist prize at the Yorkshire Regional Championships, and in 2019, he was awarded the Geoff Whitham award as the outstanding euphonium player at the British Open Championships.

In 2020, Daniel graduated from the RNCM with a Distinction in his Master’s degree.

2023 saw Daniel leave Black Dyke to pursue a different career and has re-joined again, on 2nd euphonium at the world’s no,1 brass band – The Cory Band. Now providing Dan the unique opportunity to focus on his international soloist performances and inspiring the next generation of Euphonium players, not only across the UK, but around the world.

- Conducted by Ben Horden
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