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Graduation 2018

6 July 2018

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Alumni

It’s Graduation Day!

Today we celebrate the achievements of all our talented graduating students at St Davids Hall, Cardiff, and wish them good luck as they take the next step in their chosen careers. We hope they’ll keep in touch and we look forward to hearing their news.

Congratulations, everyone!

Graduation is also an opportunity for the College to honour inspirational figures in national and international creative life.

HONORARY FELLOWSHIPS 2018

Our Honorary Fellows have each made significant individual contributions to the College and within the arts and cultural industries in the UK or internationally.

RWCMD New Fellows Anthony Lyn and Ciaran Bagnall

This year the College honours two award-winning alumni, lighting and set designer Ciaran Bagnall and international musical theatre director Anthony Lyn.

They are joined by 2018 Fellows John Mills and Robert Childs

We’re also celebrating our internationally acclaimed Heads of Study: Robert Childs, brass band conductor and the College’s Head of Brass Band Studies, and former Head of Guitar at the College, John Mills. You can read an article on Robert Childs receiving his Fellowship in 4barsrest.

Playwright Simon Stephens, RWCMD International Chair in Drama and long-standing supporter of our Drama students, and Huw Edwards, broadcaster and ambassador for the arts in Wales, received their fellowships in absentia.

Our recently retired Head of Estates, Geoff Viggers, who worked at the College for over 20 years, has been awarded The President’s Medal. Happy retirement, Geoff.

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