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Professor Alun Hoddinott CBE - Welsh Composer
"A choir that produces such a rich and colourful tone quality combined with a strict musical discipline and approach is always exhilarating and a real pleasure to listen to.
Helena is an inspired musician of many diverse talents - conductor, performer and administrator. Her performances with both choir and orchestra have enormous vitality and resource and give to the music a compelling and fluently authentic presentation".
Professor William Mathias CBE - Welsh Composer and past President of the choir
"Music in Wales is being renewed, and the Ardwyn Singers are a pre-eminent part of that renewal".
Owain Arwel Hughes OBE - Conductor
"Working with the Ardwyn Singers has been without fail an experience of unequivocal joy. One is immediately aware of the beautiful sound combined with accurate intonation and highly disciplined rhythm and ensemble. This impressive presentation is due to the talent and vision of the choir's Musical Director, Helena Braithwaite. Her knowledge of choral singing allied to the discipline of instrumental playing has produced a formidable musician and technician, undoubtedly responsible for the choir's enviable reputation as a flexible unit, with wide ranging repertoire".
Roy Bohana OBE - Former Musical Director of the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod
"Helena is Wales' leading choral trainer and one of its finest musicians. She aims for, and achieves, consistently high standards in her many and varied musical activities".
"The Ardwyn Singers - an outstanding choir from Wales. Active in concerts of a consistently high standard. Winners of International choral competitions including Llangollen - a venue for 50 nations".
Sir Thomas Armstrong - former Principal of the Royal Academy of Music
"An unique and disciplined tonal quality few choirs can equal".
"Scintillating - every detail added to perfectly focused words. Remarkable and beautifully sensitive singing". "An excellent performance of a most demanding work - great attention to detail - a very careful interpretation of the text". "A virtuoso performance".
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