Cardiff University
St David’s Partnership, the joint venture between Capital Shopping Centres and Land Securities Plc, sponsored a spectacular gala concert on 19 October to celebrate Cardiff University’s 125th anniversary, featuring international opera stars and a specially-created fanfare to mark the occasion.Held at the Wales Millennium Centre, the concert was led by world-renowned tenor Dennis O’Neill, and Grammy award-winning soprano Rebecca Evans. Together they performed some of the world’s best loved classical and operatic music, including pieces by Puccini and Verdi. The gala was opened with a specially-created fanfare tribute to the University - Caerdydd 125 - written by leading international composer and Cardiff alumnus Karl Jenkins.
The concert included the world première of Somewhere Unknown, a symphonic movement by Liz Lane, a postgraduate student at the School of Music. All of the performers were accompanied by the Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera.
Also on stage were past and present students from the University’s Cardiff International Academy of Voice and the School of Music’s own highly-regarded Chamber Choir. The event was compèred by BAFTA award-winning BBC journalist and Cardiff graduate Huw Edwards, who said: “I’m really proud to have been asked to host the gala concert. The line-up was terrific and the event underlined the prestige that Cardiff now has as one of Europe’s leading universities.”
The St David’s Partnership, and through it, Capital Shopping Centres, considers itself privileged to be able to support an institution that is part of a city that is proud of its place in history and sensitive to its role in the future. The partnership has similar aims for involvement in the City and to work long-term with stakeholders to provide a high quality shopping destination of which the city can be proud too.
