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Dateline: 30th October, 2008
Terfel to Front RWCMD Fundraising Campaign Bryn Terfel is to be the Patron of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama's fundraising campaign, A Stage for Success. Planning permission has just been granted for the multi-million pound development to create a suite of world class training and performance facilities in a landmark building at the northern approach to Cardiff city centre.
80% of the funding for the £22.5 million scheme is already in place, including a grant of £10 million from the Welsh Assembly Government and the College now aims to raise £3.5 million and is seeking support from donors across Wales and the UK. As well as delivering world class training facilities, enabling the College to attract the best students from Wales, the UK and internationally to study in Cardiff, the new development will also provide increased opportunities for local performing arts organisations to access training and promote their own work in state-of-the-art performance spaces.
The design will transform the existing site, bringing a new Recital Hall, Theatre, Acting & Movement Studios and an Exhibition Gallery to complement the College’s existing training and performance facilities. The College will remain open throughout the construction period.
"The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama has a pedigree which stretches back sixty years, during which time it has seen some of the UK and Wales’ finest performing artists pass through its doors," says Bryn Terfel. "Over the last decade Cardiff has been transformed and has a new sense of purpose. These stunning facilities will create a new gateway to Wales’ capital city, and will perfectly complement the great performing venues we already have in Wales Millennium Centre and St David’s Hall. These are state-of-the-art facilities that I could only have dreamed of when I entered the profession. They will beckon talented young people from around the world to study in Wales. When these emerging artists step into the professional world they can be confident that they have been prepared to the highest level."
"The College has a great reputation. We operate at the forefront of our international peer group, delivering the finest artistic tuition to exceptional students from the UK and abroad, many of whom go on to work at the highest levels internationally," adds College Principal, Hilary Boulding. "This wonderful development will allow us to complement our first-class teaching with the very best facilities."
The fundraising campaign will be launched on 4th November at Cardiff Castle where Bryn Terfel will be joined by representatives from business, supporters of arts and education, politicians, College Fellows and Alumni. Rhian Lois Evans, a final-year music student at the College and winner of the 2008 Bryn Terfel Urdd Gobaith Cymru Scholarship will be singing at the event.
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