Rhiannon Pritchard

Rhiannon graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2009.

She has received numerous awards for her work as an accompanist and répétiteur, including the Welsh National Opera Seligman Award, the RWCMD Mansel Thomas Prize and Accompanist Prize, and Gwobr Goffa Eleri Evans, the accompanist prize at the National Eisteddfod.

Rhiannon is in demand as an accompanist across Wales and is an official accompanist for three of the country’s major music festivals: the National Eisteddfod, Llangollen International Eisteddfod and the Urdd Eisteddfod.

She has collaborated with many of Wales’ leading singers, including Sir Bryn Terfel, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Rebecca Evans and Elin Manahan Thomas. She currently works as a vocal coach and accompanist in the vocal department at RWCMD, and also teaches privately as a piano tutor.

Rhiannon works regularly with a number of choirs, including the award-winning Côr CF1, winners of the 2014 BBC Choir of the Year, S4C’s ‘Mixed Choir of Wales’ in 2019 and 2022, and Côr y Byd winners in 2022.

She has extensive experience as a répétiteur and animateur with a range of organisations, including Welsh National Opera, the BBC, the Aloud Charity, Live Music Now, Mahogany Opera, the Forget Me Not Chorus and Music in Hospitals. Her work spans a wide variety of settings, including mainstream schools, special education, dementia units, care homes and hospital wards, and with participants across all age groups – from primary and secondary pupils to young adults and older people.

She also works regularly with the Novello Orchestra and the British Sinfonietta.

Rhiannon’s work has taken her to Africa, America, Canada, India, the UAE and across Europe.

Notable productions include Welsh National Opera’s Dead Man Walking and Blaze of Glory; Welsh National Youth Opera’s Kommilitonen!; RWCMD’s The Cunning Little Vixen and The Marriage of Figaro (as well as numerous opera scenes productions); and Wales Millennium Centre’s Tiger Bay.