
BIOGRAPHY
"Tomos is a natural and highly intelligent musician, with a beautiful, warm and subtle sound and tremendous stage presence. He is totally committed to break the harp free from the clichés of an instrument in the past played only by women and with limited repertoire, to present it in its full strength and glory and help restore it permanently to the concert platform as a unique instrument capable of striking modernity and piercing tenderness. Audiences are mesmerised by his performances, which are engaging and exciting."
Gabriella Dall'Olio

Born in Cardiff in 1991 Tomos first attended Ysgol Pencae, Llandaff, a Welsh medium primary school, where he studied harp and piano lessons from 5 years old. After showing promising signs as a budding musician, his headmistress and music teachers advised him to audition for a choral scholarship at Llandaf Cathedral, and to audition for the Junior programme at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. These two institutions provided Tomos with an extremely secure musical foundation, and gave him the tools to enter and win many regional and national music competitions on harp, piano and flute and perform at numerous choral and orchestral concerts.
In 2005 Tomos gained a major music scholarship to Eton College on harp and piano, where he was an integral part of the music department and explored composing, arranging and music management as well as performing. He was then awarded a scholarship to Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance to study harp with Gabriella Dall'Olio and Frances Kelly, and won the audition to spend the 3rd year of his undergraduate degree on the Erasmus programme at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón in Zaragoza with Gloria Martinez. Last year he graduated with First Class Honours from Trinity Laban, and is currently studying a Master of Music course at Trinity Laban as a Trinity College London Scholar, and has participated in masterclasses with many eminent harpists such as Fabrice Pierre, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Anna Loro, Helga Storck, Sioned Williams, Catrin Finch, David Watkins, Sylvain Blassel and Elizabeth Fontan Binoche.
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Tomos has performed a few times on national British, Welsh and Spanish television, most recently appearing on BBC primetime news with his chamber group performing Ravel’s Introduction & Allegro at the opening concert of the Cutty Sark in Greenwich. He has also performed for many members of the Royal Family including Her Majesty the Queen, and performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician in venues across London and also across the UK, from Cornwall to North Wales, and his musical exploits have led him to perform in concert halls in Japan, Italy and the Czech Republic.
Tomos thoroughly enjoys playing with a number of amateur and semi-professional orchestras in London, and was recently awarded a much-coveted reserve place in the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, and he is currently principal harp of the Siegfried Camerata. He is also a harp teacher with a number of private pupils, all of whom have received distinctions in their ABRSM exams, and has taught and ran workshops in numerous primary schools in South East London. He is a lover of contemporary music and has performed new works by Trinity Laban students as part of the Contemporary Music Group, and is currently partaking in the Lichtbogen project which involves composers experimenting with live electronics and writing pieces inspired by Saariaho’s work Lichtbogen, culminating in a live showcase concert and studio recordings.
Awards
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Scholarship to Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance
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First Medal at the UFAM International Harp Competition in Paris
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Second prize at the International Harp Festival in Caernarfon
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Grade 8 ABRSM distinction on harp, piano and flute
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Numerous gold medals at the Abertawe festvial for Young Musicians, and winner the Maid of Sker Plate for Harp
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Trophy for the most outstanding musician of the festival at the South Glamorgan Festival for Young Musicians
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The James Pantyfewen Foundation Award
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The Elizabeth Evans Award
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The Greenwich Bluecoat Foundation Award
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Winner of the David Watkins Plate for Harp at the Croydon Music Festvial
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First prize on both harp and piano at the Wales National Youth Eisteddfod

​Recitals & Concerts
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Venues include:
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Royal Festival Hall
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Windsor Castle
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The Millenium Centre
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St David's Hall
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Southwark & Llandaff Cathedrals
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Blackheath Halls
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Regent Hall on Oxford Street
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Sala Mozart del Auditorio de Zaragoza
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St James' Church, Piccadilly
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Numerous churches, hotels and smaller concert halls around the UK