Mae Sioned Gwen Davies yn wreiddiol o Fae Colwyn yng ngogledd Cymru. Astudiodd yn y Stiwdio Opera Genedlaethol ac Ysgol Gerdd a Drama’r Guildhall trwy gefnogaeth hael Opera Glyndebourne a ddarparodd iddo Wobr Datblygu Artist Ifanc, a Gwobr Datblygu Gyrfa Sefydliad Bryn Terfel.

Yn ddiweddar perfformiodd ran y Drydedd Nymff yn Rusalka a rhan Pitti-Sing yn Y Micado y naill a’r llall ar gyfer Opera’r Alban. Perfformiodd y brif ran yn Carmen Bizet mewn addasiad Cymraeg gan Opera Cymru yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yn 2015. Ymunodd ag Opera’r Alban yn 2013 er mwyn perfformio rhan Kate mewn taith genedlaethol o The Pirates of Penzance a daeth yn Artist sy’n dod i Amlygrwydd yn ystod 2013/14 gydag Opera'r Alban gan berfformio rhannau Eduige yn Rodelinda Handel a’r Drydedd Wrach ym Macbeth, Verdi ar gyfer y Cwmni. Perfformiodd ran Margarida yn The Yellow Sofa ar gyfer Prosiect Jerwood Opera Glyndebourne ac hefyd ar daith yr hydref yn ystod 2012, gan ddychwelyd unwaith eto yn 2014 er mwyn perfformio rhannau Olga yn Eugene Onegin ac Annina yn La traviata.

Mae wedi cael llwyddiant mewn nifer o gystadlaethau yn cynnwys y wobr gyntaf yn Eisteddfod Ryngwladol Llangollen yn 2009, y wobr gyntaf yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2009 a dyfarnwyd iddi wobr y perfformiwr mwyaf trawiadol yng Ngwyl Gogledd Llundain 2009. Yn ogystal mae wedi cyrraedd y rownd gynderfynol Gwobrau Kathleen Ferrier a rownd derfynol Gwobrau Lleisiol The Jackdaws Great, Gwobr Thelma King, MOCSA a chystadlaethau Canwr Cymreig Ifanc Cymry Llundain.

Mae ei huchafbwyntiau mewn cyngherddau yn cynnwys Voices, Henze yn Neuadd y Barbican, Llundain, yr unawd Alto yn Les Noces, Stravinsky yn yr LSO St. Luc, Llundain,
Messiah, Handel gyda Chôr siambr Lund yn Sweden a Serenade to Music Vaughan Williams i gyfeiliant Graham Johnson.
Perfformiodd yn yr Arddangosiad o leisiau Cymru Brynfest Bryn Terfel yng Nghanolfan y Southbank, Llundain a chael y fraint hefyd o ganu mewn cyngerdd ym mhresenoldeb ei Uchelder Brenhinol, Tywysog Cymru yng Nghastell Caerffili. Yn ddiweddar mae wedi perfformio’r unawd mezzo-soprano yn y perfformiad cyntaf yn unrhyw le yn y byd o’r gwaith newydd, Arctic Elegy gan Edward Andrew Jones yn Aberdeen. Yn ogystal mae wedi bod ar daith cyngherddau gyda Siambr o Gymru, Ensemble Cymru. ​
Olga
Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky
Scottish Opera
Olga
Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky
Scottish Opera
Olga
Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky
Scottish Opera
Sioned Gwen was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales. She gained her M.Mus. degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and completed her post graduate studies on their Opera Course in 2012. Sioned Gwen is one of the first recipients of a Career Development Award from the Bryn Terfel Foundation. She is also thankful to The Worshipful Company of Girdlers for their kind sponsorship. Sioned completed her training at the National Opera Studio in London in 2015, and gratefully acknowledges the generous financial support of Glyndebourne Festival Opera who have provided her with a Young Artist Development Award.

Recent engagements include her Spanish debut as Olga in Eugene Onegin with Opera Valladolid, Third Dryad in Rusalka, Pitti-Sing in TheMikado and an Opera Highlights Tour of Scotland with Scottish Opera, Second Lady in The Magic Flute with Longborough Festival Opera and cover Edwige in Rodelinda for English National Opera.

Future plans include Olga in Eugene Onegin; Stewardess in Flight and Maddalena in Rigoletto with Scottish Opera.

Following her success in the Welsh Singers Competition 2016, Sioned recently had the honour of representing Wales in the prestigious, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, 2017. Other competition successes include first prize winner in the 2009 Llangollen International Eisteddfod, first prize winner the 2009 National Eisteddfod of Wales and she was awarded the most outstanding performer at the 2009 North London Festival. She was also a finalist in ‘The Jackdaws Great Elm Vocal Awards’ at the Wigmore Hall, London and ‘The Thelma King Award’ in Bath.

In 2013, Sioned performed the role of Kate in The Pirates of Penzance for Scottish Opera and was subsequently offered an Emerging Artist contract with the company for the 2013/14 season where her roles included Eduige in Rodelinda and Third Witch in Macbeth. Other roles include the Title Role in a Welsh language translation of Carmen at the National Eisteddfod of Wales with Opra Cymru. In 2012, she performed the role of Margarida in The Yellow Sofa for Glyndebourne Festival Opera‘s Jerwood Project, both in the Festival and autumn tour, returning to the festival in 2014 to cover the roles of Olga in Eugene Onegin and Annina in La Traviata.


Whilst a student, Sioned performed the roles of Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro and Frau Reich in Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor for British Youth Opera. Roles performed at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama were Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Marta in Iolanta, and Mere Jeanne in Dialogues des Carmelites. She also covered Madame de Croissy in Dialogues des Carmelites and understudied Florence Pike in Albert Herring.


Concert highlights include Henze’s Voices at the Barbican Hall, London, the Alto Solo in Stravinsky’s Les Noces in LSO St. Lukes, London, Handel’s Messiah with the Lund Chamber Choir in Sweden and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music accompanied by Graham Johnson. Sioned Gwen also performed in a concert in the presence of His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, at Caerphilly Castle.