Wynford Evans

[1] In the summer of 1964, at the age of 18, Wynford entered and won the tenor solo for 18 to 25s in the Royal National Eisteddfod which was held that year in his home town of Swansea.

Wynford attended The Guildhall School of Music and Drama at John Carpenter Street in London where he was taught singing by Joyce Newton, among others, and after graduating went on to win the Gold Medal for Singers in 1967.

For ten years Wynford was part of Fortune’s Fire alongside lutenist Carl Shavitz with whom he made a number of early music recordings.

Festival appearances included Aix-en-Provence ('Messiah' with John Eliot Gardiner), City of London, Bath, Bach 300, Cardiff, Swansea and Llandaff and many others.

The concert was broadcast to Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, West Germany, The German Democratic Republic and the UK.

The biggest event Wynford took part in was singing in Cardiff Arms Park on 29th May 1993 as a soloist in front of a choir of 10,000 men with 35,000 people in the stands.

Wynford and his wife ran the Staines St David’s Day Society where he and two other couples organized twenty-five concerts in twenty-two years.