Young Singer Award
The date for our 2026 Young Singer Award competition is 7th March 2026
The four shortlisted candidates for this years Young Singer Award are Roshan Din, Isla Lloyd, Erin Morgan and Dylan Pymble - they will be competing to become the 2026 Brecon Choir Festival Young Singer on 7th March at 4pm in Kensington Baptist Church.
The winner of the competition will have the opportunity of performing as the solo artist at the Festival’s Friday night concert with Côr Llundain and Aberhonddu & District Male Voice Choir at Theatr Brycheiniog on Friday, 17th July 2026. The winning prize is £300 prize with £100 prizes for the 3 runners up.
The candidates will be singing 3 pieces each in front of our two adjudicators and to a small audience.
YOUNG SINGER AWARD Competition:
Roshan Din
Isla Lloyd
Erin Morgan
Our adjudicators for 2026 are:
Jonathan Rogers who is the Musical Director of Dunvant Male Choir and the Curriculum Leader of Music for Gower College Swansea, as well as an Associate Lecturer with Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and an examiner with the Welsh Joint Education Committee. Jonathan was also the deputy conductor for the Welsh Association of Male Choirs concert in 2024 and led the 92nd National Gymanfa Ganu, in partnership with the North American Festival of Wales, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2024.
Nicola Morgan who has taught singers at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. She very much enjoys adjudicating at festivals and eisteddfodau, most notably at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
Dylan Pymble
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Leisa Lloyd Edwards was selected as the winner of the 2025 Brecon Choir Festival Young Singer Award at the competition event in March 2025.
The other shortlisted candidates were Phoebe Gault, Hester Jones-Reddy and Mared Phillips.
Leisa sang at the Grand Concert in Brecon Cathedral on Saturday 19th July.
Leisa is a year 13 pupil at Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen studying AS level Music, Welsh and History. Sian Wyn Gibson is her vocal tutor at Canolfan Gerdd William Mathias. She is a member of Cor Glanaethwy as well as the National Youth Choir of Wales. She regularly competes in local and national competitions including the Urdd and the National Eisteddfod. A recent highlight for her was winning the 15-17 vocal solo at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod. Whilst classical performance is a preference, she's open to learning different singing styles as in 2023 she came first in the solo folk singing competition at the Urdd National Eisteddfod and won the musical theatre solo at the National Eisteddfod.
The 2025 Winner
Past Winners
2024 Winner
Penelope George was the winner of our 2024 Young Singer Award competition. Penelope has gone on to study singing at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
2023 WINNER
Erin Thomas was our 2023 winner. In 2024 she was placed 2nd in the National Eisteddfod - Under 25s Mezzo Soprano and joined the Juilliard’s intensive voice programme in June.
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