About
Llinos Haf Jones is a Welsh mezzo-soprano and a recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, where she completed her Master of Arts with Distinction, studying with Marcus van den Akker and Joseph Middleton. During her time at the Academy, she was a member of the prestigious Song Circle programme and a recipient of the Baroness de Turckheim Award and the James Pantyfedwen Foundation Scholarship. She previously studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, graduating with first-class honours, and receiving the Gwilym Gwalchmai Jones Scholarship and Manchester Welsh Society Prize.
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 La Traviata (Opera Holland Park), Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera Holland Park), Cherry Town, Moscow (Welsh National Youth Opera), Dialogues des Carmélites (Royal Northern College of Music), as well as scenes from Carmen, Lakmé, Béatrice et Bénédict, Orfeo ed Euridice, and Susannah. Most recently Llinos performed in the chorus of Irish National Opera for their performances of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.
Internationally, Llinos has performed in St David’s Day Concerts across New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C., and at the North American Festival of Wales in Pittsburgh. Llinos also appeared in the world premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth’s Magnificat with the Bergen Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner, 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 at RNCM; as well as achieving Highly Commended in the Isabel Jay Memorial Prize at RAM, runner up in the John Fussell Trust Award and third place in the MOSCA Young Welsh Singer of the Year competition.