Welsh tenor and composer Tomos Owen Jones is currently in his final year of study at the David Seligman Opera School, having graduated with Distinction from the MMus Composer-Performer course at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Tomos’ operatic roles have included Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Il Principe (La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco), L’Aumonier (Dialogues of the Carmelites), Semyon Semyonovitch (Cherry Town, Moscow) Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus - cover), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi - cover), and will be playing Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) at RWCMD in March 2025. Passionate about new music, Tomos has created roles including Y (Julia Plaut’s The Y Knot) at RWCMD, Gwydion the Magician (Stephen McNeff’s 2117/Hedd Wyn) with WNO Young Company, and Data Collector (Richard Barnard’s Nonsensus) at the Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival. Competition successes include the Janet Price Opera Prize, the Manning Prize for Tenors and the Adelina Patti Prize for Bel Canto singing.
Tomos' compositions have been premiered by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, The National Eisteddfod, Atmospheres Festival Cardiff and Leeds Lieder, and he was an ORA Singers Graduate Composer for 2024. Tomos was the winner of the WNO-RWCMD Composition Competition in 2021, and the Welsh Guards March Competition in 2024.