John is a leading Welsh composer whose music has had extensive international exposure and been widely recorded. He was awarded an MBE for services to music in 2012.
Explore his music including Endless Song, Never Odd or Even and his critically acclaimed opera to Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood.
3rd April 2025
The last few years have been a whirlwind of music, collaboration, and unexpected challenges. In 2021, I composed Towards Silence to a private commission from Carol Nixon and participated in an online symposium about my work at Bangor University. A choral piece, Hallelujah, written during the pandemic, finally had its premiere in June 2022 at St David’s Hall,…
15th February 2021
A video recoding of Singing John Metcalf as part of the Zoomposium is available here. Location: Online event Time: Friday 12 March 2021 – Saturday 13 March 2021 Presenter: School of Music, Drama and Performance, Bangor University (in collaboration with the Bangor Music Festival and Tŷ Cerdd) Contact: Nerys Boggan School of Music, Drama and Performance,…
