Gwenno

Songwriter Gwenno has won numerous prizes including The Welsh Music Prize 2015 for her debut solo album Y Dydd Olaf.

Gwenno Saunders has been working as a professional musician and producer for over 25 years and has released 2 EPs, 4 solo full-length albums, and 2 full-length albums with the indie-pop group The Pipettes.

As a songwriter and producer she has won numerous prizes including The Welsh Music Prize 2015 for her debut solo album Y Dydd Olaf and has been shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize 2022 for her third album Tresor. In 2019 she created a new score for Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle for Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru (Welsh National Theatre) and was commissioned to create a new live score for the Cornish film BAIT (directed by Mark Jenkin) which was performed at the BFI Southbank in March 2020 and was scheduled to be performed at SXSW Film Festival, Austin TX in March 2020 before the COVID pandemic. Gwenno is also a festival curator, CAM 15 + 18 and Festival of Voice, both with the Wales Millennium Centre.
In 2016 Gwenno released her debut Welsh language solo album ‘Y Dydd Olaf’ (The Final Day) on Heavenly Recordings. She played SXSW Music Festival, Austin TX and embarked on a promotional tour of the East Coast of the US in 2016 and played the Moogfest in Durham, N. Carolina the same year. In 2018 Gwenno released her second, Cornish language solo album ‘Le Kov’ (The Place of Memory) on Heavenly Recordings. She toured Europe and the UK supporting Suede, Manic Street Preachers, and Ben Howard. In 2022 Gwenno released her third album, in Cornish and Welsh ‘Tresor’ (Treasure) on Heavenly Recordings which was shortlisted for that year’s Mercury Music Prize.

In 2025 Gwenno released her fourth solo album, in English, Cornish, and Welsh ‘Utopia’ on Heavenly Recordings.

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