Biography
Born in Parc (a village in Gwynedd near Bala), Puw studied at Bangor University with John Pickard, Andrew Lewis and Pwyll ap Siôn. Puw was awarded a M.Mus. degree in 1996 and a Ph.D. degree in 2002. He was then awarded an Arts Council of Wales bursary and studied with the composer John Metcalf. Puw was appointed as a Lecturer in Music at Bangor University in 2006, having previously been a Teaching Fellow in Music from 2004. A Welsh speaker, he has been the Welsh Medium Teaching Fellow for the School of Music. In addition, Puw is Chairman and Artistic Director of the Bangor New Music Festival. He conducts Côr Cyntaf i'r Felin, a Welsh-language choir based in Y Felinheli near Bangor.
Puw has received commissions from (amongst others) BBC Radio 3, the Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams, the Bangor New Music Festival and the North Wales International Music Festival. He was appointed the first Resident Composer with BBC National Orchestra of Wales (BBC NOW) in 2006 and held this position until 2009. During this time, Puw wrote a concerto for oboe premiered in 2006) and an orchestral piece, ... onyt agoraf y drws ..., which was first performed at the 2007 Proms.
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