Gwenno Morgan

Welsh composer and pianist Gwenno Morgan is establishing herself as one of the distinctive new voices in Wales’ neoclassical and cinematic music landscape. Her work is rooted in a deep relationship with place - music shaped by landscape, memory and the pull of home, moving between intimate melodic piano writing and expansive orchestral and electronic worlds. Her debut album gwyw introduced this language through compositions that brought together contemporary classical writing, chamber instrumentation and jazz-inflected harmony. Shortlisted for Welsh Album of the Year 2025, the record drew praise from CLASH and was named among Somewhere Soul’s Top Albums of 2024. Morgan’s music has since found support across BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Wales. That cinematic instinct extends beyond her own records. As a composer for film and screen, Morgan has received multiple award nominations for her scoring work, including a Best Composer nomination for Waiting for Burton, while earlier work has been recognised by the Celtic Media Festival. Across both worlds, her music shares the same preoccupation: how melody can hold a memory, a landscape or a feeling that words cannot quite reach. Her forthcoming second album, gwreiddiau - Welsh for “roots” - turns that question towards home. Written in the years after leaving North Wales, first for Leeds and later London, the record grew from hiraeth: a distinctly Welsh sense of longing, distance and belonging.