We are delighted to announce that Erin Morgan is the winner of the BCF Young Singer Award. Erin is 16 years old and lives in Abergavenny. She studied violin with Anya Birchall and piano with Giordano Ferla, firstly at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Junior Conservatoire, and following its closure, at the Young Musicians Academi, Penarth, where she also began singing lessons with Guy Harbottle.

In 2025 Erin gained a place at the Junior Royal Academy of Music, London, where she now studies violin with Clare Thompson and voice with Yvette Bonner.

Erin has toured as a violinist as part of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, and the NYO Inspire Orchestra with whom she performed at the BBC Proms in 2024. She won the CNSO Gwent Young Musician Competition in the same year.

Erin is a choral scholar with Crickhowell Choral Society with whom she has sung as a soloist, and is a recipient of the Robinson Award from the charitable organisation Future Talent. She is a pupil at Crickhowell High School and hopes to study at a Conservatoire after 6th form and to become a professional musician.

The four shortlisted candidates for this years Young Singer Award were Roshan Din, Isla Lloyd, Erin Morgan and Dylan Pymble.

Roshan Din

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.