Ynyr Pritchard grew up in Caernarfon and there he studied viola with Margaret Scourse through the Canolfan Gerdd William Mathias and also with Mary Hofman privately. He also studied at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with Lucy Nolan. Ynyr has been a member of the National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain, the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. With the NYOGB he toured to the Berlioz Festival in La Côte-Saint André and the Young Euro Classic festival in Berlin. He has appeared at the BBC Proms with the NYOGB and the BBC Proms Youth Ensemble, recently premiering Jonny Greenwood’s new violin concerto. He also appeared at the Rhyl Music Festival, winning the Muriel Lewis Award, the Chester Competitive Festival of Performing Arts, the Beaumaris Festival and is also a violist with the North Wales Camerata. Ynyr has a great interest in composition, having studied privately with Jeffrey Lewis, and at the JRNCM with various teachers including Mark Dyer and Joshua Brown. He is currently studying viola at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague with Ásdís Valdimarsdóttir and composition with Calliope Tsoupaki. Ynyr is hugely invested in contemporary music and would love to be a violist in a contemporary music ensemble in the future.