Tomos Owen Jones

Bio

Welsh tenor and composer Tomos Owen Jones previously graduated from the David Seligman Opera School and completed the MMus Composer-Performer course at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD).

Operatic roles include Don Ottavio Don Giovanni, Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Il Principe La bella dormente nel bosco (Respighi), and L’Aumonier Dialogues des Carmélites (RWCMD). He also covered Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus and Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi (RWCMD). In summer 2025, Tomos will perform The Spirit Dido and Aeneas (Longborough Festival Opera / Barokksolistene).

He has premiered roles including Y in Plaut’s The Y Knot (RWCMD), Gwydion the Magician in Stephen McNeff’s 2117/Hedd Wyn (WNO Young Company), and the Data Collector in Richard Barnard’s Nonsensus (Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival). He is a recipient of the Janet Price Opera Prize and the Adelina Patti Bel Canto Prize at RWCMD.

As a composer, Tomos has had works premiered by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, The National Eisteddfod, Atmospheres Festival Cardiff, and Leeds Lieder. He was an ORA Singers Graduate Composer for 2024 and won the WNO-RWCMD Composition Competition (2021) and Welsh Guards March Competition (2024).

Tomos’ time at the Studio is generously supported by Philip Carne MBE, with additional support from Chris Ball.