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Gareth Glyn looking out over the water
 
 
  • Gareth Glyn looking out over the water
  • Gareth Glyn in Menai Bridge
  • Gareth Glyn looking out over the water
  • Gareth Glyn smilng

Welcome to Gareth Glyn's website


One of Wales’s best-known and acclaimed composers. Here you’ll find full details of his career and of his compositions in many different genres. You can also listen to extracts of several of his works and purchase or hire scores and recordings.

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A wonderfully dramatic piece....a stunning piece, full of life and a wonderful showcase

Wales Arts Review am I'r Pedwar Gwynt

heartfelt and emotionally engaging....a really magical invention which rose to soaring heights...in a masterly fashion

Seen and Heard International

cyfraniad o bwys i gerddoriaeth Cymru

(World Cultures: Wales)

Gareth Glyn's appealing A Snowdon Overture displays charm and lyricism

(Journal Into Melody)

Bravo!

(International Record Review)

Gareth Glyn's accomplished Snowdon Overture

(BBC Music Magazine)

Some gorgeous melodies...

(Classical Music Web)

I greatly enjoyed [these pieces, which are] positively replete with melodies and boisterous good humou

(Classical Net Review)

colourful and varied...

(International Record Review)

nostalgic, tender and delicate

(Abeille-Musique, Ffrainc)

neat and sweet.....offers considerable enjoyment

(cylchgrawn Fanfare, UDA)

a delightful discovery

(cylchgrawn Classic FM)

cerddoriaeth gyfareddol Gareth Glyn

(Lowri Cooke, BBC)

Athrylith o gyfansoddwr.... ymhell o flaen ei amser

(Grant Llewellyn, Arweinydd Cerddorfa Symffoni Gogledd Carolina)

This is a fantastic CD...

Extracts from a review by MusicWeb International of the double CD album Welsh Incident and Other Orchestral Works:

A Night at the Opera [is] well constructed and delightfully scored....

MusicWeb International of the double CD album Welsh Incident and Other Orchestral Works

Welsh Incident is a marvellous piece ..... one of my discoveries of 2011!...

MusicWeb International of the double CD album Welsh Incident and Other Orchestral Works

The Microncerto for double-bass and orchestra is a little masterpiece. It should be a Prom favourite...

MusicWeb International of the double CD album Welsh Incident and Other Orchestral Works

[The] impressive Trumpet Concerto....is a great concerto that demands to be in the repertoire of all good trumpet players....

MusicWeb International of the double CD album Welsh Incident and Other Orchestral Works

I really enjoyed Cariad, which is... light music at its very best with lots of lovely tunes, harmonies and effective orchestration. Ardderchog! (=Excellent!)

MusicWeb International of the double CD album Welsh Incident and Other Orchestral Works

Gwlymabsant [is] a real show-stopper!...

MusicWeb International of the double CD album Welsh Incident and Other Orchestral Works

[The] absolutely charming Little Suite for Strings....is a work that is right up there with all the best ‘string orchestra’ pieces in the British music repertoire...

MusicWeb International of the double CD album Welsh Incident and Other Orchestral Works

Gareth Glyn is one of the best composers around...

MusicWeb International of the double CD album Welsh Incident and Other Orchestral Works

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