Lowri in line to be next big star (From Penarth Times)

Lowri in line to be next big star

A TALENTED Penarth schoolgirl is in the running for a 4000 prize provided by world famous bass-baritone Bryn Terfel for the most talented young performer in Wales.

The prize will go to the winner of a Fame Academy-style competition to shown on S4C.

Lowri Walton, 17, of Plymouth Road, is one of eight talented young people who will be battling it out in a for this year's Ysgoloriaeth Bryn Terfel Urdd Gobaith Cymru scholarship.

Lowri has won the dancing competition at the National Youth Eisteddfod for two years running.

S4C will broadcast the competition from Caernarfon's Galeri arts centre on Sunday 18 September, starting at 8.30pm.

Before then, viewers will have an opportunity to eavesdrop on the progress of each competitor as they take part in individual master classes via a series of short nightly programmes on S4C in the run up to the big night itself.

Lowri's Master Class will be shown on Friday, September 16 at 9.00pm (and repeated the following day on digital channel S4C digidol at 4.50pm).

Lowri, a sixth form student in her final year at Cardiff's Ysgol Plasmawr, is hoping to make dancing her career. and is studying Drama, English Literature and Spanish at A Level.

For her performance at the Galeri, Lowri will present a traditional dance, Morfa Rhiannedd and a tap dance together with the clog dance with which she won the individual dance solo under the age of 25 at the Urdd National Eisteddfod.

This is the second time Lowri has competed for the Bryn Terfel Scholarship.

The experts on hand at the Scholarship Master Classes are soprano Miriam Bowen, who teaches at the Royal College of Music and Drama in Cardiff; choreographer and dancer Sioned Huws, who now lives in Belgium; singer and former Eisteddfod winner Nia Clwyd; conductor and pianist, Terence Lloyd; Rhondda born actor Daniel Evans, and Tim Rhys-Evans, conductor of Serendipity and Only Men Aloud choirs.

These experts will also make up the judging panel on the evening at the Galeri.

The seven other contenders for the scholarship are Carwyn James from Ponyates, Catrin Evans from Llanfaircaereinion, Glesni Fflur Evans and Glian Llwyd, both from Bala; Llio Evans from Llanfairpwll, Anglesey; Gregory Vearey-Roberts from Aberystwyth and Nerys Alwena Brown from Carno.