Emyr Lloyd Jones is a tenor from North Wales and is currently a Jette Parker Artist at the Royal Ballet and Opera. He is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the Royal Northern College of Music and is an alumnus of the National Opera Studio 24/25.
A prize-winning singer, he was named the 2024 Dunraven Young Welsh Singer of the Year and won the 2022 Pendine International Voice of the Future at Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod. During his time at the RNCM, he was awarded the Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the Singing of Strauss, the Alexander Young Prize, the Oncken Song Prize, and the Elsie Thurston Prize. He is also a past winner of the Blue Ribband for folk singing at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
Recent operatic highlights include Oduardo (Ariodante - RBO), Beppe and Tom Rakewell (Jette Parker Jukebox), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) at the Theatre Royal Glasgow with Scottish Opera, Mirko in Augusta Holmès’ La Montagne Noire at the Wales Millennium Centre with WNO, Oronte in Handel’s Alcina (GSMD) and Don Riccardo in Verdi’s Ernani (BIF).
Upcoming performances include Gastone in La Traviata, Borsa in Rigoletto and Philistine Messenger in Samson et Dalila at the RBO in Covent Garden.
