Garlic Farm: Mared Emyr Pugh-Evans (Harp) [June]

Please select what time you would like to book your table AND how many people in your party.

Join Mared Emyr Pugh-Evans, the official harpist to His Majesty The King, for an intimate evening recital at The Garlic Farm.

You can join us for dinner before the concert at any time from 18:00. For this event, rather than booking at ticket, you book a table as the venue is cabaret-style, and order from the evening menu, which includes light bites.

Welcome to Wight Proms Wednesdays! We would like to bring you a bit of the Wight Proms throughout the year and not just in August, and so we launched this lunchtime and evening concert series. Taking place at 12:30 and 19:30 on Wednesdays and both lasting 40 minutes.

BIOGRAPHY

Mared Emyr Pugh-Evans is an international prize-winning harpist from Borth, in mid-west Wales. She gained her MA (Performance) degree from the Royal Academy of Music in 2022, where she studied under Karen Vaughan. She also achieved her LRAM whilst studying for her final year and received a DipRAM certificate for her Final Performance. She graduated from RWCMD, Cardiff in 2020 with a First-Class (Honours) Bachelor of Music degree and also achieved her DipABRSM (Instrumental Teaching) certificate and was awarded the 2020 RWCMD Royal Welch Fusiliers Award and the Florence Mary Proctor Scholarship. In April 2025 she was inducted as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

Mared is honoured to have been appointed Harpist to His Majesty The King in the Summer of 2024, with her first official engagement happening a few weeks later celebrating 25 years of Y Senedd in Cardiff. During her first year in this prestigious role she performed at numerous state banquets, in Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, and was also an invited guest at the Community Music Makers Reception at Windsor Castle. She has performed on S4C, Radio 4, Radio 3 and BBC One.

A regular recitalist on both the national and international stage, Mared has won numerous awards for her playing including 6 th Place HarpMasters Prize at the USA International Harp Competition, Bloomington in 2022 and Winner of the 2020 Sir Ian Stoutzker £10k Prize for the most outstanding musician at RWCMD. After graduating from RAM, she was selected as an Open Academy Fellow, the Academy’s Community and Participation department, where her passion for this field of work blossomed. She is proud to not only be a Live Music Now musician but also a musician for Wigmore Hall’s community and participation department: Music for Life. She has appeared as guest soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra under the baton of composer Patrick Hawes for a performance of his Highgrove Suite to a sell-out audience at Norwich Cathedral.