About

Welsh mezzo-soprano Llinos Haf Jones is pursuing her master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Marcus van den Akker and Joseph Middleton. She is a member of the Academy’s Song Circle and is a recipient of the Baroness de Turckheim Award and the James Pantyfedwen Foundation Scholarship. Llinos completed her undergraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music with first class honours, where she won the Gwilym Gwalchmai Jones Scholarship, James Martin Oncken Song Prize and Manchester Welsh Society Prize.

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Her operatic highlights include Papagena in Die Zauberflöte (Royal Academy Opera), Third Boy in The Magic Flute (Welsh National Opera), and chorus roles in Cherry Town, Moscow (Welsh National Youth Opera), Ariadne auf Naxos, and Dialogues des Carmélites (Royal Northern College of Music). She has also performed scenes from Carmen, Lakmé, Béatrice et Bénédict, Orfeo ed Euridice, and Susannah at RAM and RNCM. Llinos is thrilled to be joining the chorus of La Traviata and Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera Holland Park this summer, as well as performing the role of Catrin in New Sinfonia’s Opera ‘Gresford: Up from Underground’ at the National Eisteddfod in Wrexham.

 

Internationally, Llinos has performed in St David’s Day Concerts across New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C., as well as at the North American Festival of Wales in Pittsburgh. Llinos also performed in the world premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth’s Magnificat with the Bergen Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner, at Norway’s Grieghallen Concert Hall.

 

Llinos’s competition successes include the Osbourne Roberts Memorial Prize, the Lady Ruth Herbert Lewis Memorial Prize, and the J. Lloyd Williams Memorial Prize at the National Eisteddfod, the prestigious Blue Riband competition at Lampeter Eisteddfod, the 19-25 age solo competition, the Pam Weaver Scholarship and the Olwen Philips Scholarship at the Urdd Eisteddfod, and achieving Highly Commended in the Isabel Jay Memorial Prize at the Royal Academy of Music.