Development Manager - Craig Roberts
Camerata Wales' Director of Development Craig Roberts studied at the United Kingdom's University of Salford, gaining first his BA (Hons) then Masters degree there, studying with Dr Roy Newsome and Prof David King. Whilst at the university, in his final year Craig was awarded the Roy Newsome conducting prize as the outstanding undergraduate conductor of the academic year 2000.
Originally working primarily in the fields of wind and brass music, Craig has performed in many of the country’s finest concert halls including the Wales Millennium Centre, St David’s Hall, the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, BBC National Orchestra of Wales' Hoddinott Hall, and the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff; Symphony Hall, Birmingham; The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester; The Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool; the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea; and the Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall and Royal Academy of Music, London. Abroad Craig has toured to Australia, Canada, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Libya, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Russia, the United States of America and Ukraine.
Craig has worked on a wide variety of large scale and innovative concert projects both at home and abroad, with numerous leading ensembles and artists. These include the Stadtorchester, Kreisverband Jugendblasorchester and Jugendsinfonieorchester of Ravensburg, and the Stadtkapelle Nurtingen of Germany; the Don Cossack and Russian Cossack State Dance Companies; Errollyn Wallen and the Welsh National Opera Company; Tim A. Duncan and the Imperial Ice Stars; Steve Bingham, David Childs, Shan Cothi, Rebecca Evans, Catrin Finch, Lesley Garrett, Joji Hirota & the Japanese Taiko Drummers, Claire Jones, Peter Karrie, Sarah Lark, Paul Mealor, Andrew Powell, Katy Treharne, James Watson, the Band of Her Majesty’s Grenadier Guards, plus various and numerous leading bands and choirs which have included Black Dyke, Brighouse & Rastrick, Cory, Grimethorpe and Leyland brass bands, and Cor Meibion Morlais, Only Men Aloud, Pendyrus and Treorchy Male Choirs, the Richard Williams Singers, Vivace Singers and Serendipity.
Within Wales Craig has conducted the majority of the top brass bands, including the famous Cory Band who Craig guest conducted for the Golden Jubilee procession through London of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. He has been successful in competition at the highest level, winning the Welsh League Championship on three occasions (2006, 2009 and 2011) and has won every contest in the Welsh League Championships. In 2004 Craig was named Conductor of the Year by the SEWBBA and WWBBA.
For a number of years Craig was also Director of Music of the Woods Mfg Co Brass Band based in Stittsville, Ontario, Canada. He directed the band at several of the world’s largest military shows including the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo in Halifax, Canada; the Virginia International Tattoo in Norfolk, USA; the Netherlands Nationale Taptoe in Breda, Holland and the Polizei Show in Hamburg, Germany.
Today Craig is a member of the Production Team of the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo, where he is now Assistant Director of this, the world’s largest annual indoor show. He has also worked as a production consultant on the annual Canadian Beating Retreat “Fortissimo” held annually on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario; travelled to Russia, to work with the Kremlin Zoria Festival on the first Tattoo to be held in Moscow's Red Square in 2007; and to Tripoli, Libya, where in 2009 he acted as Director of Music and Musical Advisor to the World Military Music Festival (a Tattoo held in Green Square, Tripoli in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Libyan Arab Jamahereya) and Director of Music for the 40th anniversary parade. In 2010 & 2011 Craig also travelled to Crete, Greece, acting as Director of Music and Production Consultant for the Mediterranean International Festival of Arts. In 2013 he also travelled to Kharkiv, Ukraine for a major festival in the presence of the Ukrainian President, marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Ukraine, and in 2015 managed a 12 date tour of Australia for the Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
Formerly Executive Officer of the UK National School Band Association (NSBA), Artistic Director of the Welsh Brass Arts Festival, and Wales Development Manager to Making Music, the national support body for UK voluntary music, Craig is now a leading freelance arts management consultant whose clients include Owain Arwel Hughes, Camerata Wales and the Welsh Proms Cymru; David Childs and Cardiff Symphonic Winds, Cory and Grimethorpe Colliery Bands. Craig has been successful in securing major investment for a wide variety of projects from the Welsh Government, Arts Council of Wales, PRSF and an array of leading trusts & foundations and commercial sponsors.
In addition to all of the above Craig also still supplies brass tuition to numerous schools and young musicians in his home county of Rhondda Cynon Taf, now via the Cory Academy. He is also a serving member of the Executive Council of Music Centre Wales, Ty Cerdd; a member of the Board of Directors of Sound Affairs and Community Music Wales; and Musical Director of Symphonic Brass Wales and Lewis-Merthyr Band.
Further information on Craig can be found at his website www.croberts100.com
Originally working primarily in the fields of wind and brass music, Craig has performed in many of the country’s finest concert halls including the Wales Millennium Centre, St David’s Hall, the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, BBC National Orchestra of Wales' Hoddinott Hall, and the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff; Symphony Hall, Birmingham; The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester; The Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool; the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea; and the Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall and Royal Academy of Music, London. Abroad Craig has toured to Australia, Canada, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Libya, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Russia, the United States of America and Ukraine.
Craig has worked on a wide variety of large scale and innovative concert projects both at home and abroad, with numerous leading ensembles and artists. These include the Stadtorchester, Kreisverband Jugendblasorchester and Jugendsinfonieorchester of Ravensburg, and the Stadtkapelle Nurtingen of Germany; the Don Cossack and Russian Cossack State Dance Companies; Errollyn Wallen and the Welsh National Opera Company; Tim A. Duncan and the Imperial Ice Stars; Steve Bingham, David Childs, Shan Cothi, Rebecca Evans, Catrin Finch, Lesley Garrett, Joji Hirota & the Japanese Taiko Drummers, Claire Jones, Peter Karrie, Sarah Lark, Paul Mealor, Andrew Powell, Katy Treharne, James Watson, the Band of Her Majesty’s Grenadier Guards, plus various and numerous leading bands and choirs which have included Black Dyke, Brighouse & Rastrick, Cory, Grimethorpe and Leyland brass bands, and Cor Meibion Morlais, Only Men Aloud, Pendyrus and Treorchy Male Choirs, the Richard Williams Singers, Vivace Singers and Serendipity.
Within Wales Craig has conducted the majority of the top brass bands, including the famous Cory Band who Craig guest conducted for the Golden Jubilee procession through London of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. He has been successful in competition at the highest level, winning the Welsh League Championship on three occasions (2006, 2009 and 2011) and has won every contest in the Welsh League Championships. In 2004 Craig was named Conductor of the Year by the SEWBBA and WWBBA.
For a number of years Craig was also Director of Music of the Woods Mfg Co Brass Band based in Stittsville, Ontario, Canada. He directed the band at several of the world’s largest military shows including the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo in Halifax, Canada; the Virginia International Tattoo in Norfolk, USA; the Netherlands Nationale Taptoe in Breda, Holland and the Polizei Show in Hamburg, Germany.
Today Craig is a member of the Production Team of the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo, where he is now Assistant Director of this, the world’s largest annual indoor show. He has also worked as a production consultant on the annual Canadian Beating Retreat “Fortissimo” held annually on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario; travelled to Russia, to work with the Kremlin Zoria Festival on the first Tattoo to be held in Moscow's Red Square in 2007; and to Tripoli, Libya, where in 2009 he acted as Director of Music and Musical Advisor to the World Military Music Festival (a Tattoo held in Green Square, Tripoli in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Libyan Arab Jamahereya) and Director of Music for the 40th anniversary parade. In 2010 & 2011 Craig also travelled to Crete, Greece, acting as Director of Music and Production Consultant for the Mediterranean International Festival of Arts. In 2013 he also travelled to Kharkiv, Ukraine for a major festival in the presence of the Ukrainian President, marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Ukraine, and in 2015 managed a 12 date tour of Australia for the Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
Formerly Executive Officer of the UK National School Band Association (NSBA), Artistic Director of the Welsh Brass Arts Festival, and Wales Development Manager to Making Music, the national support body for UK voluntary music, Craig is now a leading freelance arts management consultant whose clients include Owain Arwel Hughes, Camerata Wales and the Welsh Proms Cymru; David Childs and Cardiff Symphonic Winds, Cory and Grimethorpe Colliery Bands. Craig has been successful in securing major investment for a wide variety of projects from the Welsh Government, Arts Council of Wales, PRSF and an array of leading trusts & foundations and commercial sponsors.
In addition to all of the above Craig also still supplies brass tuition to numerous schools and young musicians in his home county of Rhondda Cynon Taf, now via the Cory Academy. He is also a serving member of the Executive Council of Music Centre Wales, Ty Cerdd; a member of the Board of Directors of Sound Affairs and Community Music Wales; and Musical Director of Symphonic Brass Wales and Lewis-Merthyr Band.
Further information on Craig can be found at his website www.croberts100.com