Elfyn Jones Elfyn Jones Ashburton Composer based in Devon Head of Programmes, South West Music School Musical director of The Day We Played Brazil by Nick Stimson, Northcott Theatre Exeter/Exeter City Football Club 2014 Musical Director of Sailors and Sweethearts by Nick Stimson (People's Company, Theatre Royal Plymouth 2013) Director, Musical Director, Great Scott! by David Burke and David Jensen (Plymouth schools production for Plymouth Youth Music Service 2012) Composer/Musical Director The Trial of Jean Rhys, libretto Eleanor Knight (work in progress presented by World's End Opera at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2012) Composer/Musical Director/Pianist for Episodes 4, 5, 6 of Nine Stories High (WNO commission 2011/12) Composer/Musical Director 'Fair and Softly Goes Far' for Summerdance 11 (National Dance Company of Wales/WNO commission 2011) Composer/Musical Director My Very Own Story by Alan Ayckbourn (Cygnet Theatre at Exeter New Theatre 2011) Composer/Musical Director The Fair Maid of the West by Thomas Heywood (Creative Cow at Exeter New Theatre 2011) Arranger/Musical Director The Shaughraun by Dion Boucicault (Crediton Arts Centre 2011) Pianist, BBC TV Military Wives 2010 Currently he lectures on Plymouth University's BEd course (composition and practical musicianship) and is South West Music School's Lead Composer Tutor. He has worked for Opera Circus, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, National Youth Music Theatre, ENO Baylis, Welsh National Opera and Opera North amongst others. He has written two operas (The Nightjar, 1999 and Jacko's Hour, 2009), both of which attracted national critical acclaim at their first performances, and is currently working on his third, The Trial of Jean Rhys, libretto by Eleanor Knight, developed through Royal Opera House's VOX2 programme. It was featured at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival in August 2012 and excerpts were showcased at Linbury Studio and the Opera Europa conference in 2011 and 2012. His Symphony No 1: The Journey was premiered in May 2011. Commissioned work includes The Firebucket for ENO Baylis (1998), The Nightjar for Tete a Tete (1999), The Dead of Night for Opera North (2003), Fair and Softly Goes Far for National Dance Company of Wales/WNO (2011), and Nine Stories High for WNO (2012). Elfyn Jones’s tracks Blodeuwedd Scene 4 And 5 by Elfyn Jones published on 2019/04/10 10:45:11 +0000 Blodeuwedd Sc 2 by Elfyn Jones published on 2019/04/10 10:29:36 +0000 Blodeuwedd Sc 1 by Elfyn Jones published on 2019/04/10 10:29:28 +0000 When I Was by Elfyn Jones published on 2018/06/19 10:32:49 +0000 Freedom And Imagination (Excerpt) by Elfyn Jones published on 2018/06/19 10:29:11 +0000 DartChange Performance Totnes 9 June 2018 by Elfyn Jones published on 2018/06/19 09:40:23 +0000 Guitars And Bells by Elfyn Jones published on 2018/03/22 09:44:48 +0000 Overdrive In The Back Alley by Elfyn Jones published on 2018/03/22 09:44:48 +0000 The End Of The World by Elfyn Jones published on 2018/03/22 09:44:47 +0000 Vocoder Glissandi by Elfyn Jones published on 2018/03/22 09:44:47 +0000
