Richard Newton
Arts Management Module Leader
Job Role: Repetiteur, Vocal Coach, Cyd-Destunau Galwedigaethol, Tiwtor Opera
Department: Vocal
Honours: MA (Oxon) PGDip (RAM) ARCO
Stephen Wood is Assistant Head of Music for Welsh National Opera and has been a full-time member of the Music Staff there since 2008. Prior to this, he gained a Postgraduate Diploma in repetiteur studies at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Anthony Legge and Audrey Hyland. As an undergraduate, Stephen read Music at Oxford University and was Organ Scholar of Exeter College.
Alongside his work as a pianist and organist, Stephen has conducted Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro for Welsh National Opera.