Overview
Guto Pryderi Puw (b.1971) read Music at Bangor University under composers John Pickard, Pwyll ap Siôn and Andrew Lewis, gaining his PhD in Composition in 2002. He was appointed as a lecturer in 2006, concentrating mainly on Composition and Contemporary Music and was appointed as Head of Composition in 2015.
Puw first came to prominence after winning the Composer’s Medal at the National Eisteddfod in 1995 and for the second time in 1997. His music has been featured in many festivals around the UK and broadcast regularly on Radio and television. In February 2006 he became the inaugural Resident Composer with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with his Concerto for Oboe winning the Listeners’ Award category at the British Composer Awards in 2007 and ‘…onyt agoraf y drws…’ (‘unless I open the door’) being premiered at the Proms during the same year, later to be chosen as the the 2nd finest orchestral work by a Welsh composer in the Gramophone magazine in 2015.
His first operatic commission, Y Tŵr (‘The Tower’) based on the play by Gwenlyn Parry and with libretto by Gwyneth Glyn was successfully toured by Music Theatre Wales to critical acclaim throughout the UK in 2017.
He received the Sir Geraint Evans Award by the Welsh Music Guild for ‘his significant contribution to Welsh music’ in 2013. Signum Records released a selection of his recent orchestral works on the CD Reservoirs in 2014. For many years Puw has been active in the promotion of new music in north Wales through his involvement with the Bangor Music Festival, being one of its founding members and Artistic Director since 2000.
Additional Contact Information
Position: Head of Composition
Email: g.p.puw@bangor.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 1248 382173
Location: School of Music
Teaching and Supervision
- WXK1011 Composition Year 1
- WXK2233 Composition Year 2
- WXM2121 / WXM3121 Contemporary opera and music theatre
- WXM2189 / WXM3189 Ligeti
- WXP3288 / WXP3289 Composition Projects
- WMP4202 Composition in Context
- WMP4121 / WMP4122 / WMP4123 Composition Projects 1 and 2
Current PhD/MPhil students
- Sa Do Kim (Composition and Conducting)
- Zach Reading (Composition)
Research Interests
Composition.
Orchestration.
The music of John Metcalf.
Gyorgy Ligeti.
Contemporary opera and music theatre.
Postgraduate Project Opportunities
Publications
2024
- PublishedCorws a Cherddorfa Symffoni Prifysgol Bangor - Cyngerdd Dathlu'r 140
Puw, G. (Other), 21 Apr 2024
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance - PublishedDarn Lleisiol #2 (Vlatva)
Puw, G. (Other), 22 Mar 2024
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
2022
- PublishedPopping Candy: (welcome to the world of FIZZ and FUN!)
Puw, G. (Other), 2022
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
2021
- PublishedPedwarawd Llinynnol #1: Mae Dy lwybrau'n diferu digonedd
Puw, G. (Other), 2021
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
2018
- PublishedCamouflage
Puw, G. (Other), 2018
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition - PublishedCamouflage
Puw, G. (Other), 28 Mar 2018
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance - PublishedUwchsonig
Puw, G. (Other), 2018
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition - PublishedUwchsonig
Puw, G. (Other), 26 Oct 2018
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
2017
- Published'A gwaedd y bechgyn...'
Puw, G. (Other), 2017
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition - Published(Ymdeithgan) Clystyrau Parhaus
Puw, G. (Other), 2017
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition - PublishedY Tŵr
Puw, G. (Composer) & Glyn, G., 2017
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
2016
- PublishedConcerto I’r Ffidil
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 2016
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition - PublishedPethe Achlysurol
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 2016
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition - PublishedY Tŵr (acts I & II )
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 2016
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
2010
- PublishedHologram
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2010
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition - PublishedNoson Tan Gwyllt
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2010
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
2009
- PublishedHadau.
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 3 Aug 2009
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition - PublishedThe Bobby Sands Memorial Race.
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 2 Oct 2009
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
2007
- Published'... onyt agoraf y drws ...'
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 9 Aug 2007
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition - PublishedBath!
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2007
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition - PublishedDawns y Sêr (Dance of the Stars)
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 16 Mar 2007
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition - PublishedMoliannwn.
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2007
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
2006
- PublishedOboe Concerto
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 27 Apr 2006
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition - PublishedSoundtrack for Y Tywysogion.
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2006
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition - Published[New work]
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2006
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
2005
- PublishedStereo Type
Puw, G. P. (Composer) & Wright, E. (Composer), 1 Jan 2005
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition - PublishedY Stafell Ddirgel
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2005
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
2004
- PublishedPsst!
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2004
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition - PublishedReservoirs
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 7 May 2004
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
2003
- PublishedDwy Eisteddfod
Puw, G. P., 1 Jan 2003, In: Barn. 486/486, p. 42-45
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedFfantasia IV (Canon)
Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2003
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
2001
Activities
2024
- WJEC/Eduqas Music Teacher CPD Workshop
1 day CPD workshop for post-16 music teachers on using 'speech-to-song' techniques to teach composition in a classroom setting
18 Jun 2024
Activity: Types of Business and Community - CPD delivery/organisation of courses for externals (in kind) (Presenter)
2017
- Hyrwyddo Y Tŵr
Fideos sy'n hyrwyddo perfformiad a thaith Y Tŵr.
10 Apr 2017 – 19 Jul 2017
Links:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lp6uPY05wg
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M4tppCH23E
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE8rNu86Ez0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH5fjGVFvkk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Q-IPuCXYQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrpbLorXZ5A
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2XziOuLQRQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGlYUPX63f0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRBykWLSaoM
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVpGXW24vF8
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JADdCjLCd2Q
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0awtV-ZnP0