Royal Harpist - Mared Emyr Pugh-Evans

Thursday 3rd July 1pm | Lady Chapel | £10 (includes hot drink and welshcake)

The Festival is honoured to welcome Mared Emyr Pugh – Evans, harpist to His Majesty the King for a lunchtime recital. Mared is an international prize-winning harpist from Borth, in mid-west Wales. Her programme will include: Marcel Grandjany’s Rhapsodi,  Gareth Glyn’s Erddigan and William Mathias’s Santa Fe Suite.

Mared Emyr Pugh-Evans is an international prize-winning harpist from Borth, in mid-west Wales. She gained her MA (Performance) degree from the Royal Academy of Music in 2022, where she studied under Karen Vaughan. She also achieved her LRAM whilst studying for her final year and received a DipRAM certificate for her Final Performance. She graduated from RWCMD, Cardiff in 2020 with a First-Class (Honours) Bachelor of Music degree and also achieved her DipABRSM (Instrumental Teaching) certificate and was awarded the 2020 RWCMD Royal Welch Fusiliers Award and the Florence Mary Proctor Scholarship. Mared is honoured to have been appointed Harpist to His Majesty The King in the Summer of 2024, with her first official engagement happening a few weeks later celebrating 25 years of Y Senedd in Cardiff.

A regular recitalist on both the national and international stage, Mared has won numerous awards for her playing including 6th Place HarpMasters Prize at the USA International Harp Competition, Bloomington in 2022 and Winner of the 2020 Sir Ian Stoutzker £10k Prize for the most outstanding musician at RWCMD.

After graduating from RAM, she was selected as an Open Academy Fellow, the Academy’s Community and Participation department, where her passion for this field of work blossomed. She is proud to not only be a Live Music Now musician but also a musician for Wigmore Hall’s community and participation department: Music for Life.

Most recently she was guest soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra under the baton of composer Patrick Hawes for a performance of his Highgrove Suite to a sell-out audience at Norwich Cathedral.