Lowri dances her way to talent prize (From Penarth Times)

Lowri dances her way to talent prize

A PENARTH dancer has won the highly prestigious 2005 Bryn Terfel Scholarship - worth 4,000 - for the most talented youngsters in Wales.

Lowri Walton, 17, saw off the challenge of seven other competitors to win the 2005 Bryn Terfel Urdd Gobaith Cymru Scholarship held at Galeri in Caernarfon and televised on S4C.

Lowri performed a traditional folk dance to take the title.

Lowri also won the individual folk dance competition at this year's National Urdd Eisteddfod held at Wales Millennium Centre.

Lowri said: "I am over the moon to have won it.

"Taking part was a fantastic experience. There was a great sense of camaraderie between all the competitors and the others were the first to congratulate me on winning. I was also given some really good advice by the members of the jury who coached us while we were there."

Lowri is a student at Ysgol Gyfun Plasmawr, Cardiff, studying Spanish, English and Drama for A-level, and hopes to go on to university to follow a drama and dance course.

Lowri has danced in performances in London and Cardiff, and has twice competed with Dawnswyr Nantgarw, an innovative and exciting folk dance group from South Wales, in an International Folk Dancing Festival in Palma, Majorca.

Sin Eirian, Urdd Gobaith Cymru Director of the Eisteddfod and the Arts said: "We were given a feast of talent tonight at the Bryn Terfel Urdd Gobaith Cymru Scholarship and in a majestic competition it was Lowri who won the scholarship with warm commendation from the adjudicator's panel.