Welsh baritone Wyn Pencarreg studied at the Royal Northern College of Music gaining many prizes and scholarships including awards from the Countess of Munster Trust, the Peter Moores Foundation and the Wolfson Foundation. He was also winner of the Erich Vietheer Memorial Award from Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
His many operatic roles include Alcindoro/La bohème, Padre Sansón/The Exterminating Angel and Flemish Deputy/Don Carlos (The Royal Opera); Le Sire de Béthune/Les vêpres siciliennes, Sir Gualtiero Raleigh/Roberto Devereux, Barone Dauphol/La traviata, Alcade/La forza del destino (Welsh National Opera); Le bailli/Werther (Irish National Opera); Cuno/Der Freischütz (OAE); Surin/The Queen of Spades (English National Opera); and Sharpless/Madama Butterfly (Royal Albert Hall). World premières include Papin/Babette’s Feast (The Royal Opera) and Lalchand/The Firework-Maker’s Daughter (The Opera Group). He has also performed roles for companies including Opera North, Glyndebourne, Garsington Opera, Grange Park Opera, Opéra de Monte-Carlo and English Touring Opera.
Concert appearances include Messiah (Ulster Orchestra); Voice of Neptune/Idomeneo (Hallé Orchestra); Hermann Ortel/Meistersinger (BBC Philharmonic Orchestra); and Vaughan Williams Dona nobis pacem and Walton Belshazzar’s Feast at the St Albans Festival