Hughes, Owain Arwel (1942– )

Welsh conductor. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and with Haitink and Kempe. He was musical director of the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1977, and associate conductor of the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra from 1980. He directed the Huddersfield Choral Society 1980–86, and founded and directed the Welsh Proms in 1986. He is well known in the popular repertory. His father Arwel (1909–1988) was a conductor in Wales and wrote the opera Menna (1951), a symphony, and three string quartets.