Guto Pryderi Puw (b.1971) read Music at Bangor University under composers John Pickard, Pwyll ap Siôn and Andrew Lewis, gaining his PhD in Composition in 2002. He was appointed as a lecturer in 2006, concentrating mainly on Composition and Contemporary Music and was appointed as Head of Composition in 2015.

Puw first came to prominence after winning the Composer’s Medal at the National Eisteddfod in 1995 and for the second time in 1997. His music has been featured in many festivals around the UK and broadcast regularly on Radio and television. In February 2006 he became the inaugural Resident Composer with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with his Concerto for Oboe winning the Listeners’ Award category at the British Composer Awards in 2007 and ‘…onyt agoraf y drws…’ (‘unless I open the door’) being premiered at the Proms during the same year, later to be chosen as the the 2nd finest orchestral work by a Welsh composer in the Gramophone magazine in 2015.

His first operatic commission, Y Tŵr (‘The Tower’) based on the play by Gwenlyn Parry and with libretto by Gwyneth Glyn was successfully toured by Music Theatre Wales to critical acclaim throughout the UK in 2017.

He received the Sir Geraint Evans Award by the Welsh Music Guild for ‘his significant contribution to Welsh music’ in 2013. Signum Records released a selection of his recent orchestral works on the CD Reservoirs in 2014. For many years Puw has been active in the promotion of new music in north Wales through his involvement with the Bangor Music Festival, being one of its founding members and Artistic Director since 2000.

Position: Head of Composition

Email: g.p.puw@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 1248 382173

Location: School of Music

  • WXK1011 Composition Year 1
  • WXK2233 Composition Year 2
  • WXM2121 / WXM3121 Contemporary opera and music theatre
  • WXM2189 / WXM3189 Ligeti
  • WXP3288 / WXP3289 Composition Projects
  • WMP4202 Composition in Context
  • WMP4121 / WMP4122 / WMP4123 Composition Projects 1 and 2

Current PhD/MPhil students

  • Sa Do Kim (Composition and Conducting)
  • Zach Reading (Composition)

Composition.

Orchestration.

The music of John Metcalf.

Gyorgy Ligeti.

Contemporary opera and music theatre.

Composition / Cyfansoddi.

2025

  • PublishedScherzo I-III
    Puw, G. (Other), 15 Feb 2025
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2024

2022

2021

2018

  • PublishedCamouflage
    Puw, G. (Other), 2018
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • PublishedCamouflage
    Puw, G. (Other), 28 Mar 2018
    Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
  • PublishedUwchsonig
    Puw, G. (Other), 2018
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • PublishedUwchsonig
    Puw, G. (Other), 26 Oct 2018
    Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

2017

  • Published'A gwaedd y bechgyn...'
    Puw, G. (Other), 2017
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published(Ymdeithgan) Clystyrau Parhaus
    Puw, G. (Other), 2017
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • PublishedY Tŵr
    Puw, G. (Composer) & Glyn, G., 2017
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2016

  • PublishedConcerto I’r Ffidil
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 2016
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • PublishedPethe Achlysurol
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 2016
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • PublishedY Tŵr (acts I & II )
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 2016
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2010

  • PublishedHologram
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2010
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • PublishedNoson Tan Gwyllt
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2010
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2009

  • PublishedHadau.
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 3 Aug 2009
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • PublishedThe Bobby Sands Memorial Race.
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 2 Oct 2009
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2007

  • PublishedBath!
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2007
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • PublishedDawns y Sêr (Dance of the Stars)
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 16 Mar 2007
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • PublishedMoliannwn.
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2007
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • Published'... onyt agoraf y drws ...'
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 9 Aug 2007
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2006

  • Published[New work]
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2006
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • PublishedOboe Concerto
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 27 Apr 2006
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • PublishedSoundtrack for Y Tywysogion.
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2006
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2005

  • PublishedStereo Type
    Puw, G. P. (Composer) & Wright, E. (Composer), 1 Jan 2005
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • PublishedY Stafell Ddirgel
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2005
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2004

  • PublishedPsst!
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2004
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • PublishedReservoirs
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 7 May 2004
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2003

  • PublishedDwy Eisteddfod
    Puw, G. P., 1 Jan 2003, In: Barn. 486/486, p. 42-45
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedFfantasia IV (Canon)
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2003
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

2001

  • PublishedTrioled
    Puw, G. P. (Composer), 1 Jan 2001
    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
  • PublishedY Crwth
    Puw, G. P., 1 Jan 2001, In: Barn. 455/456, p. 44-47
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review