About
Alaw Grug Evans is a soprano from Carmarthenshire in South-West Wales. A first-class Music graduate from The Queen’s College, Oxford, she is now studying for her Master’s degree in Vocal and Opera Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music under the tutelage of Linda Richardson. This year, she is a recipient of the Dame Eva Turner Award for Sopranos and is generously supported by the Ryan Davies Memorial Fund. She is also the winner of the prestigious W Towyn Roberts Scholarship at the 2026 National Eisteddfod, and was also awarded the William Park-Jones Scholarship. During her undergraduate studies, she was the recipient of the Maurice Pearton Scholarship and was granted a place on the Oxford & Royal Academy of Music Scheme (2021-22), where she took lessons with Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Fiona Dobie.
Recent professional highlights include Belinda (Dido & Aeneas, Purcell with Mid Wales Opera), Lucy (The Telephone, Menotti with New Chamber Opera) performed at the British Embassy in Rome, and a reimagined rendition of the Shepherd Boy (Tosca, Puccini with West Green House Opera). She is also a named soloist on That Sweet City (album, Choir of The Queen’s College 2024) and has featured as a soloist on various BBC Radio 3 broadcasts.
An experienced ensemble singer, Alaw has worked with various groups across the UK, including Kantos Chamber Choir, The Delius Singers, Coro Spezzato, and the Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford. Alaw is a keen recitalist and oratorio singer, with recent highlights including the soprano soloist for Mozart’s Requiem (Altnagelvin Hospital Choir), a summer’s evening recital with Malcolm Martineau, Fiona Dobie, and Alice Turner (St. Giles Church, Oxford), and various recitals for the Eglesfield Music Society and New College Music Society. She is delighted to be a member of the RNCM Songsters this year, bringing her love of song and programming to the fore through an array of projects and collaborations.
Early music has become a cornerstone of Alaw’s career. Having performed step-out solos in Bach’s St John and St Matthew Passion, and as the soprano soloist for New Chamber Opera’s Bach Cantata Concert, her focus has recently moved towards early opera. Having performed an ‘expressive’ Belinda (The Guardian) with Mid Wales Opera in April 2026, Alaw has also performed as Cupid in Purcell’s King Arthur (New Chamber Opera), and regularly programmes and performs early and baroque music in recitals.
Her interest in music has always been propelled forward by her Welsh heritage. Contributing to both the Urdd and National Eisteddfods as a singer, harpist, and composer, she won the Principal Composer Prize in 2021 and was spotlighted by Classic FM for her work. In February of 2026, she was delighted to be chosen as an ambassador for Urdd Gobaith Cymru’s St David’s Day tour to the USA, performing in schools, galas, and concerts across Philadelphia and New York. She was also awarded a place in Gorsedd Cymru’s Circle of the Bards for her outstanding contribution to Welsh culture.
Always inspired to create in multidisciplinary and cross-genre formats, Alaw co-founded a production company, Sanglots Theatre, to take a staged recital of French art song and jazz to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023. In 2024, they took a concert of George Gershwin’s music to the Holywell Music Room, and consequently to the Grand Junction in London. Whilst at university, Alaw sang with the Oxford Gargoyles, featuring as a soloist in their 2024 album, Gold New Borrowed Blue.
