Elin Manahan Thomas

She won a choral scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge, where she gained a starred first in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in 1998,[1] and completed an MPhil.

She has performed Judith Weir's King Harald's Saga in collaboration with the composer, and premièred Sir John Tavener's latest work Shunya at his 60th birthday concert.

[4] She performed Handel's Eternal source of light divine during the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony in London.

[6] In 2016, Manahan Thomas was the soprano soloist in the première of Karl Jenkins' choral work, Cantata Memoria: For the children, at the Wales Millennium Centre.

On 19 May 2018 she sang Eternal source of light divine at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, accompanied by the event's orchestra and with David Blackadder playing the trumpet obbligato.