Cowbridge Music Festival

Assistant Artistic Director 2020

I was the Assistant Artistic Director at Cowbridge Music Festival for 2020. This included planning festival logistics, artistic planning, organising outreach with children and young people, marketing, leading the 2020 fringe and programme development. Unfortunately, the 2020 festival was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

About Cowbridge Music Festival

Cowbridge Music Festival was launched in 2010. It has since gained a place among the most exciting music festivals in Wales, offering classical music, jazz and folk at an international level for the community of Cowbridge and beyond.

Every year, the festival brings world-class musicians to perform in this beautiful market town; recent artists include Nicola Benedetti, Jacqui Dankworth, the Doric Quartet, Stile Antico, Tenebrae, Llŷr Williams, Elin Manahan Thomas and Maya Youssef. Nicola Benedetti CBE is the festival’s Patron, and Llŷr Williams, is the festival’s Associate Artist.

The festival aims to make great classical musical completely approachable, enjoyable and uplifting. Alongside the concerts runs an exciting and comprehensive outreach programme, which over the past decade has reached over 10,000 local pupils. Fringe performances also take place throughout the town, and numerous concerts in local care homes have ensured that live music reaches all in the local community.