D Huw Rees

Huw is a native of Swansea and studied Music at Cardiff University – piano under Stephen Price, voice with Clifford Bunford, organ with Robert Court and composition under Dr. Richard Elfyn Jones.  During this time Huw became a member of the National Youth Choir of Wales and accompanist to several choirs in the Cardiff area. 

Huw’s commitment to the Urdd organisation stretches all the way back to 1993 as an accompanist, conductor, adjudicator and also as Vice Chair of the 2018 Urdd Eisteddfod. Huw was the Chair of the Music Committee in 2025 when the Urdd Eisteddfod came to Margam, Neath Port Talbot. 

Huw’s conducting skills have found him conducting the massed male voice choirs at the opening concert of the National Eisteddfod in Swansea in 2006. Huw also had the honour of conducting his own arrangement of the West End song ‘This is the Moment’ from the musical Jekyll and Hyde at the Festival of Male Voice Choirs (1,000 voices) at the MEN Arena, Manchester.  In 2012,  Huw conducted the massed performers at the Interceltique Festival in Lorient, Brittany. 

Huw is, by nature, a collaborative musician and in 2015 he worked with stars of Britain’s Got Talent including Richard and Adam, Julian Reynolds and the Latvian Opera Orchestra on the Number 1 Classical Album CD ‘Believe: Songs of Inspiration’. 

Huw has had the privilege of performing and collaborating with a range of distinguished national and international artists, including Sir Bryn Terfel, Rebecca Evans, Rhys Meirion, Wynne Evans, Sophie Evans, and Trystan Llyr Griffiths, to name just a few.

Huw has been a long-time supporter of the young performers of Loud Applause Rising Stars, regularly encouraging and championing their development. Now joining the team as a Musical Adviser, he is excited to help mentor the next generation and contribute to the ongoing success of the organisation.