Glyndŵr Award

The Glyndŵr Award is made for an outstanding contribution to the arts in Wales. It is given by the Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust to pre-eminent figures in music, art and literature in rotation. The award takes its name after Owain Glyndŵr, crowned Prince of Wales at Machynlleth.

The award consists of a large medal in silver, bearing a stylised design of Cardigan Bay and the Dyfi river, with the location of Machynlleth marked by an inlaid bead of pure unmixed 18ct Welsh gold from the Gwynfynydd gold mine, near Ganllwyd, Dolgellau. The bilingual Glyndŵr medal was designed in 1995 by local designer-jeweller Kelvin Jenkins, and has been handmade by him for presentation to every winner since then.^[1]

Glyndwr Award 2014

Recipients

Music

• The composer Ian Parrott (1994)
• The composer Alun Hoddinott (1997)
• The harpist Robin Huw Bowen (2000)
• The harpist Elinor Bennett (2003)
• The composer Rhian Samuel (2006)
• The pianist Llŷr Williams (2009)
• The conductor and musicologist David Russell Hulme (2012)^[2]

Art

• The painter Sir Kyffin Williams (1995)
• The painter Iwan Bala (1998)
• The sculptor John Meirion Morris (2001)
• The painter Peter Prendergast (2004)
• The painter Shani Rhys James (2007)
• The sculptor David Nash RA (2010)
• The painter David Tress (2013)^[3]

Literature

• The writer Jan Morris (1996)
• The poet Gillian Clarke (1999)
• The poet Gerallt Lloyd Owen (2002)
• The historian Dr John Davies (2005)
• The poet bard Tudur Dylan Jones (2008)
• The writer Mererid Hopwood (2011)
• The writer Angharad Price (2014)

References

1. Kelvin Jenkins Glyndŵr Medal. Accessed 1 August 2014
2. Glyndwr Award. Accessed 18 July 2013
3. http://www.momawales.org.uk/?page_id=1363

External links

• The Machynlleth Festival
• Kelvin Jenkins Jewellery Glyndŵr Award