Coffee Concert

Sunday 8th June 2025
10.30 am Coffee, 11.00 – 12.00 Concert

Hefin Duo – Flute and Harp

Tickets (including coffee etc. and cake):
Adult accompanied by Young Person £6
Adult: £12
Young Person: £1

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Rossini – Andante con Variazioni
Traditional – Three Welsh Folk Songs 
Fauré – Berceuse from Dolly Suite
Mozart – Andante 
Debussy – The Girl with the Flaxen Hair & En Bateau  
Lili Boulanger – Nocturne
Arr. Gerlitz – Singin’ in the Rain & Over The Rainbow
Fauré – Fantaisie 
Andy Scott – And Everything is Still…
Andy Scott – Paquito 

Hefin Duo: Charlotte & Bethan met on the North Wales Youth Orchestra in 2010 and began playing as a duo together in 2011 when they were invited to perform at the ‘Welsh Learner of the Year’ awards evening as part of the National Eisteddfod in Wrexham.  Since then, they have won prizes at Chester Festival of Performing Arts and the Urdd Eisteddfod. They have given recitals for Chester Wesley Centre’s Lunchtime Series, NEW Sinfonia, ‘Wednesday’s at One’ at St John’s Church and the Alvechurch Recital Series. They have supported many charity fundraising concerts and performed on Llangollen Eisteddfod’s Penddol Stage, at the Black Park Music Festival and Dolgellau Music Club.  Hefin Duo made their concerto debut in 2013, performing Mozart’s Flute & Harp Concerto with Wrexham Youth Orchestra. They went on to perform this work again in 2015 with the Cambrian Orchestra and with The Midland Sinfonia in 2018. During the pandemic, Charlotte and Bethan were keen to find a way to continue playing together so they set-out to record their individual parts and put them together in videos which they shared on their social media platforms. This inspired them to create an ‘advent calendar’ in December 2020 in which they shared a different festive piece for 25 days! The Hefin Duo are passionate about music education and have enjoyed giving workshops in schools for Chester Music Society.

Bethan Conway is an award winning harpist based in North Wales. Bethan’s musical training began aged 7 with piano lessons before beginning to play harp aged 10. She later went on to achieve her ABRSM performance diplomas in both harp and piano and since then has performed in various venues across the UK, Europe and the USA both as a soloist and as part of a variety of ensembles. She gained a First Class Honours Degree from the Royal College of Music in 2017 and returned to the RCM for postgraduate studies as an Ashley Family Foundation Scholar. Bethan graduated with a Master of Performance with Distinction in 2019 and upon completing her studies was awarded the prestigious Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother Rose Bowl award. As a keen competitor in Eisteddfods, Bethan has won many awards including first prize in the National Eisteddfod harp solo as well as being chosen as a finalist in the prestigious Blue Riband competition on two occasions. She has also gained second prize in the piano solo and third prize in the harp solo at the Urdd Eisteddfod. In 2016 Bethan was awarded the Nansi Richards Scholarship for harpists as well as the Royal College of Music Harp Prize.

   Bethan enjoys a freelance career as both a harpist and pianist and has performed in many of the UK’s most prestigious venues such as Royal Festival Hall, Buckingham Palace, House of Commons, Cadogan Hall, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Bridgewater Hall Manchester and Symphony Hall. She performs with many orchestras across the UK including NEW Sinfonia – resident orchestra at the North Wales International Music Festival, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. This has given Bethan the opportunity to work with world renowned conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Edward Gardner and Rafael Payare. A keen chamber musician, Bethan performs regularly with her Flute and Harp group, ‘Hefin Duo’ as well as ‘Trilogy’, a flute, harp and viola trio.

Charlotte Thomas, originally from North Wales, is a freelance musician and teacher. She studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama between 2012 and 2018, graduating with a Bachelors of Music with Honours and a Masters of Music, specialising in Orchestral Performance.  Ensemble activity has always been an important part of Charlotte’s musical life. After progressing through school and county ensembles, she was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, National Youth Wind Orchestra of Wales and North Wales Youth Orchestra. 

   Since 2017, Charlotte has enjoyed regular work as a freelance flute and piccolo player across the UK in professional orchestras including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Hallé Orchestra, Bath Philharmonia, NEW Sinfonia and the orchestra of Welsh National Opera. Highlights with these orchestras include performances at the BBC Proms, Royal Opera House, Dubai EXPO and the Prague Spring Festival. Charlotte has also performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in recitals, concerts, competitions and masterclasses. Awards and prizes include the Ken Smith Flute Prize at RWCMD and an EMI Sound Foundation Scholarship for her postgraduate studies.

  Alongside performing, Charlotte has enjoyed teaching in a variety of settings including private tuition, workshops, peripatetic and school teaching and for a music charity based in Cardiff. She feels very strongly about the vast array of benefits participation in musical activities can have on people of all ages and this fuels her teaching.