Welsh bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel has been moving audiences worldwide with the qualities of his mighty voice and his insightful artistry for more than three decades.

With a repertoire that ranges from opera and sacred music to Lieder and musical theatre, he has cultivated a peerless degree of stylistic versatility over the years. In the latest of many honours bestowed on him, he was invited to perform at the coronation service for King Charles III on 6 May 2023 and at the Coronation Concert in the grounds of Windsor Castle on 7 May, making him the only artist to appear at both events. During the service he joined the Choir of Westminster Abbey in singing Paul Mealor’s beautiful Coronation Kyrie, the first Welsh-language work ever to be performed at a coronation. At the concert the following day, meanwhile, he and tenor Andrea Bocelli gave a heartfelt rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from Carousel.  In 2024, he will celebrate his 30th anniversary as an exclusive DG artist.

Terfel was born in North Wales in 1965. After studies at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he attracted international attention in 1989 when he won the Lieder prize at the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. The following year he made his professional operatic debut as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte for Welsh National Opera. His career gathered momentum in 1991 with significant debuts as Mozart’s Figaro at English National Opera and in the US for Santa Fe Opera; it took off at the Salzburg Festival in 1992 with an outstanding performance as Jochanaan in Salome and an equally impressive debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Masetto in Don Giovanni.

Since then, his operatic repertoire has grown to encompass the title roles in Boris Godunov, Der fliegende Holländer, Falstaff and Gianni Schicchi; Wotan in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre; Méphistophélès in Faust; the four villains in Les contes d’Hoffmann; Balstrode in Peter Grimes; Wolfram in Tannhäuser; Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress; and Scarpia in Tosca, among others. He has also made extremely successful forays into the world of musicals, starring to huge acclaim in both Sweeney Todd and Fiddler on the Roof.

Sir Bryn is equally at home on the concert platform, highlights of his long and varied career including the Wales Millennium Centre’s opening ceremony; the Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall; a gala concert with Andrea Bocelli in Central Park, New York; and a Christmas concert streamed live from Brecon Cathedral as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series.

Terfel signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon in 1993 and sang the title role in Le nozze di Figaro under John Eliot Gardiner for his first (Archiv) recording. His debut DG solo release was an album of Schubert songs recorded with Malcolm Martineau in 1994, while English song supplied the repertoire for his second, The Vagabond. These were followed by Opera Arias, Something Wonderful, a collection of hit songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein, and If Ever I Would Leave You, an album of Broadway songs.

His DG discography continued to grow with such diverse releases as We’ll Keep a Welcome, Bryn Terfel Sings Favourites, Simple Gifts, Silent Noon, Tutto Mozart!, Bad Boys and Homeward Bound. Terfel’s opera recordings include a Ring cycle (Metropolitan Opera production), Der fliegende Holländer (from Opernhaus Zürich) and Don Giovanni (La Scala). Two recent releases on DG’s Verbier Festival Gold label feature live recordings from Verbier: a 2011 recital of songs by Schubert, Schumann, Ibert and Quilter, and a 2016 semi-staged performance of Falstaff.  

His latest recording is Sea Songs, a collection of sea shanties, sailor songs and maritime folk tunes from around the world. He is joined on the album by a remarkable line-up of guest artists, including Sting, Eve Goodman, Sir Simon Keenlyside, Hannah Stone, Calan and Fisherman’s Friends. With tracks including ‘Ar lan y môr’, ‘The Green Willow Tree’, ‘Drunken Sailor’, ‘Sloop John B’, ‘The Wellerman’ and many more, Sea Songs was released in February 2024.  

Sir Bryn has won numerous Grammys, Classical Brits and Gramophone awards. In 2003, he was made a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) for services to opera; in 2006 he became the second recipient of the Queen’s Medal for Music; and in 2017 received a knighthood for services to music. In February 2022 he was named a Kammersänger – an honour bestowed by the Austrian government for his services to the Wiener Staatsoper. A passionate advocate for music education and for his native language and culture, he has recently launched a new foundation in partnership with the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Cronfa Syr Bryn Terfel will offer scholarships and bursaries; support projects and commissions that celebrate the Welsh language and culture; and establish a new biennial international song competition in which students will sing at least one song in Welsh and one in their own language.

Hannah Stone, former Harpist to HRH the Prince of Wales, has enjoyed a distinguished career performing at prestigious venues and events worldwide.

Recent highlights include performances with Bryn Terfel at the Tanglewood Festival and Staatsoper Hamburg. She has also given recitals in Toronto, Vancouver, Italy, the Verbier Festival, Tokyo and Melbourne.

Hannah’s international performances include guest appearances with orchestras such as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Sinfonia Cymru, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra and Borusan Philharmonic Orchestra in Istanbul. Notable past performances include the NATO Conference Dinner at Cardiff Castle, where she played for delegates including former US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former UK Prime Minister David Cameron, as well as during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee tour of Wales.

Her broadcast work features appearances on Bryn Terfel’s Christmas, Carols from Llandudno, Noson Lawen and Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol for S4C, as well as In Tune for BBC Radio 3. She also contributed to Catrin Finch’s Lullabies album, recorded on the Deutsche Grammophon label.

Hannah has premiered significant works such as St Asaph’s Dance by Karl Jenkins and Amaterasu by Gareth Glyn at the North Wales International Music Festival. She has performed at renowned festivals and venues including the Edinburgh International Festival, Litchfield Festival, Kings Lynn Festival, Kings Place in London, and the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace.

A prize-winning harpist, Hannah has received accolades from prestigious competitions including the Franz Joseph Reinl Competition in Vienna, the Camac Harp Competition in London, and the International Harp Competition in Caernarfon. She was also a National and International Eisteddfod winner.

Hannah completed her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, earning both her B.Mus. and M.Mus. degrees. She furthered her education with an Erasmus Exchange at the Universitat Mozarteum in Salzburg, studying under Professor Helga Storck. She later returned to Wales to study at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, supported by the Victor Salvi Scholarship.

Pronounced a ‘real talent’ by The Wall Street Journal, winner of the 2025 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album and finalist for 2024 and 2025 Limelight Artist of the Year, extraordinary Australian pianist Andrea Lam is also widely loved for her star role as classical expert in the ABC’s Logie-nominated television series, The Piano, watched by over one million viewers each week, with co-hosts Amanda Keller, Harry Connick Jr. and Guy Sebastian. Returned to Australia after two decades living in New York and touring the USA, Andrea performs with leading orchestras and conductors across Asia, Australasia and the USA, with conductors such as Simone Young, Sir Donald Runnicles, Jaime Martín, Alan Gilbert, Michael Christie and Wing-sie Yip, playing to thrilled audiences from New York’s Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center to the Sydney Opera House, with works from Bach, Mozart and Schumann to Aaron Jay Kernis, Liliya Ugay and Nigel Westlake.

Recent highlights include acclaimed performances of Strauss’s Burleske with Simone Young and the Sydney Symphony at Sydney Opera House, of Mozart at Sir Donald Runnicles’s Grand Teton Music Festival (USA), and as Artistic Curator and pianist for Four Winds Easter and June Long Weekend Concerts. Andrea featured with the Melbourne Symphony for the Classic 100 at Hamer Hall in 2024, 2025 and 2026, broadcast on ABC TV and iView; as soloist in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s Winter Festival and toured nationally to critical acclaim for Musica Viva Australia with the Bach Goldberg Variations, alongside jazz luminary Paul Grabowsky. She is a frequent guest in recital series such as Sydney Opera House’s Utzon Music Series, at Melbourne Recital Centre, UKARIA Cultural Centre and beyond.

In 2026, Andrea shines as soloist with the Melbourne, Adelaide and West Australian Symphony Orchestras with conductors Tabita Berglund, Benjamin Northey and Jen Winley; with Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Giordano Bellincampi, in recital with Sir Bryn Terfel at Sydney Opera House, as soloist with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, guest pianist with the Australian String Quartet and in solo recitals across the country. The 2027 season sees a return with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles, and in recital for the International Pianists in Recital series, and much more.

In addition to The Piano (ABC TV) – for which she received a 2026 Logie Award nomination for Most Popular New Talent and the show, as voted winner of the 2026 ABC Friends Excellence Awards – Andrea’s guest appearances on the television include for Creative Types with Virginia Trioli, Portrait Artist of the Year and Spicks ‘n’ Specks. Bringing her pianistic insights to ever broader audiences, Andrea also presents the weekly radio show, The Art of the Piano, on ABC Classic.

Andrea’s award-winning solo album Piano Diary (ABC Classic, 2025) continues to earn widespread acclaim, as finalist in the 2026 Australian Independent Record Label (AIR) Awards, spending weeks at no.1 on the ARIA Classical and Classical/Crossover charts. Other recordings include of Matthew Hindson’s Sad Piano pieces (Idiom Records, 2024), Mozart concerti with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, with cellist Matt Haimovitz for Pentatone Oxingale and on the New York City-based Claremont Trio’s celebrated recordings, where Andrea was pianist (2010 – 2020). Winner of multiple international prizes, Andrea holds degrees from both the Manhattan School of Music and Yale University (USA) and is Lecturer in Piano at the University of Melbourne’s esteemed Conservatorium of Music.