Glain Dafydd

Glain Dafydd’s music career includes successes in competitions such as winning the 4ème Rencontres Internationales de la Harpe en Île-de-France, the Bryn Terfel Scholarship and the ‘City of Szeged Prize’ at the Szeged International Harp Competition, Hungary. A string finalist in both the BBC Young Musician and Royal Over-Seas League competitions, she won the second prize at the Moscow International Harp Competition junior category. Glain studied at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and at the Royal Academy of Music. As a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician, Glain has performed in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, London Coliseum, Washington Cathedral, L’Instrumentarium in Paris, Thursford Christmas Spectacular, British Embassy in Paris and the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. She has also toured the UK and the US, and performed at festivals such as Harpissima, Suoni d’Arpa in Italy and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Glain is a Live Music Now artist, performing in hospitals, care homes and special educational needs schools. She teaches at Queen’s College London and St George’s College Weybridge, and is co-director of Hampstead Harp Centre.