Welsh mezzo-soprano, Llinos Haf Jones is a 2026 Alvarez Emerging Artist at Garsington Opera and an Associate Artist on British Youth Opera’s Serena Fenwick Programme. A recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, where she completed her Master of Arts with Distinction, she was a recipient of the Baroness de Turckheim Award and the James Pantyfedwen Scholarship. She previously studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, graduating with first-class honours, receiving the Gwilym Gwalchmai Jones Scholarship and Manchester Welsh Society Prize.

 

This summer at Garsington Opera, she will perform as Noble Orphan 2 and chorus in Der Rosenkavalier, as well as chorus in La Traviata. Her operatic highlights include Catrin in Gresford: Up from Underground (NEW Sinfonia), Papagena in Die Zauberflöte (Royal Academy Opera), Third Boy in The Magic Flute (Welsh National Opera). She has appeared in the chorus of Madama Butterfly (Irish National Opera), La Traviata and Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera Holland Park), Cherry Town, Moscow (Welsh National Youth Opera), Dialogues des Carmélites (Royal Northern College of Music). ​

​

In spring 2026, she travelled to India, where she performed in concerts and led singing workshops. In 2024, she performed a series of concerts across North America, concluding at the North American Festival of Wales in Pittsburgh. In 2022, she sang with the Bergen Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra for the world premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth’s Magnificat at Norway’s Grieghallen Concert Hall.

 

Her competition successes include the Osbourne Roberts, Lady Ruth Herbert Lewis, and J. Lloyd Williams Memorial Prizes at the National Eisteddfod; the Lampeter Eisteddfod Blue Riband competition; the under 25 solo competition, Pam Weaver Scholarship and Olwen Philips Scholarships at the Urdd Eisteddfod; the James Martin Oncken Song Prize, Highly Commended in the Isabel Jay Memorial Prize, runner up in the John Fussell Trust Award and third in MOCSA’s Young Welsh Singer of the Year.

​