✊ The Board of Directors of the Welsh Music Guild - of which I am one - have released a statement in response to the proposed closure of Cardiff University School of Music: welshmusicguild.wales/news/

“Rydym yn ailddatgan ein hymrwymiad i ddiogelu a hyrwyddo sefydliadau cerddorol Cymru, eu llwyddiant yn y dyfodol, ac yn galw ar bawb sy’n gwerthfawrogi’r celfyddydau i ymuno â ni i wrthwynebu’r sefyllfa anffodus hon."

✊ welshmusicguild.wales/news/

✍️ As part of the School’s advocacy plan, here is a space created by current PhD student at Cardiff where alumni share comments on how their degree at Cardiff impacted their lives and careers (submissions will be used by the School to show their alumni’s reach/impact): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

👋 Here is a petition set-up by recent graduates from Cardiff University School of Music: www.change.org/p/save-cardi...

I have heard there will be more coming for people to throw their voices behind the cause.

I fear that senior-unknowns have been sabotaging the School for some years, and it appears that this is what they have been plotting for some time behind closed doors.

👉 For colleagues at Cardiff: What can be done? What is the next step?

This is the university’s only remaining arts faculty, and with one of the richest musical histories and impacts not only for Wales, but across the nation, this would be catastrophic for Wales’ cultural future.

Wales’ cultural heart is continually being torn at, and we are staring down the barrel of Music’s closure after a 90-day consultation.