2005 in Wales - Arts and Literature

Arts and Literature

  • January
    • Karl Jenkins is awarded the OBE in the New Year's Honours List.
    • Sian Pearce becomes the first female musical director of the Morriston Orpheus Choir.
  • 9 April - Celebration Fanfare by the Welsh composer Alun Hoddinott is performed at the wedding of the Prince of Wales.
  • 17 April - Rhys Ifans wins the Best Actor award at the British Academy Television Awards. Michael Sheen is also nominated.
  • May - Gwyneth Lewis becomes the first National Poet for Wales.
  • 25 May - Katherine Jenkins's album Second Nature is named Album of the Year at the 2005 Classical BRIT Awards.
  • 19 June - The American soprano Nicole Cabell wins the final of the Cardiff Singer of the World competition for 2005.
  • 2 July - Katherine Jenkins and the Stereophonics perform in the Live8 concerts.
  • November - Dawn, by Shreepali Patel, is awarded the D. M. Davies Award at the Cardiff Screen Festival.
  • December - Connie Fisher makes her first professional theatre appearance in panto at Milford Haven Torch Theatre.
  • Gillian Clarke is appointed Cardiff's first "Capital Poet".

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