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Liz is driven by the desire to support and help others be the best they can be. A problem solver and optimist. Approaching everything with a growth mindset, Liz drives continual improvement.

Liz grew up in Pembrokeshire before graduated from Cardiff University in 1997 with a BSc hons in Physics before receiving her MSc in Advanced Semiconductor Processing and Manufacturing Technologies in 2007.

Liz has extensive engineering, quality assurance and people leadership skills in the Semiconductor industry, before moving back to her core values working in the Translational Research Hub at Cardiff University.

Liz’s superpower is taking everyone on the journey with her! Compassionate, credible and authentic.

Dedicated to her labrador Beau and incredible Mum of Anna and Jake.

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Pete is a Blue Sky Thinker, Dedicated Athlete and Loving Dad from Cheshire.

He graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 1993 as a Furniture and Product Designer before moving to Cardiff as a commercial designer.

In 2000 Pete gained his Professional Diploma in Marketing and became a Strategic Marketer in the pharmaceutical sector, continued personal growth and drive has led Pete to become Head of Pricing and Market Access Strategy.

Pete has represented Great Britain and Wales in Surf lifesaving, Rowing and Triathlon at World, European and Commonwealth Championships but is probably best remembered for appearing on Record Breakers when he  became World Bog Snorkelling Champion 1996!

Pete is first and foremost Anna and Jake's Dad.

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Nicola is an Ed Tech entrepreneur, mum to 3 children Ted, Zoe and Charlie and a somewhat haphazard traveller. Nic is Liz’s (younger) cousin, who followed Liz to Cardiff University, graduating in 2000 with a degree in Education and German. 

Nic’s love of languages, travel and education took her to teaching positions in Austria and Spain where she eventually met her husband Tom in the next door classroom in Madrid.

Since then Nicola has mostly worked in education but latterly in Ed Tech, co-founding companies (DoodleLearning and Padalogic) which support teaching and learning in Primary Education.

Not to be outdone by Pete, Nicola must add that she was 1995 Young Farmer’s Welsh Champion in stock judging, specifically dairy cows!

Professional Singer, Voice animateur, Advisor, Facilitator

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Craig was born and brought up in Birmingham and moved to Wales to study at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama where he achieved a BA (Hons) in music and a Post Graduate Diploma in singing with distinction. He continued his training at the world-renowned Mariinsky Academy for Young Singers in St. Petersburg, Russia

He is a long-standing member of the Welsh vocal group, Only Men Aloud, with whom he has had great success over the past few years. This has included winning BBC’s Last Choir Standing in 2008, winning a Classical Brit Award for best Album, singing at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, and undertaking numerous tours around the World.

He works as a singer and vocal animateur for many organisations including Welsh National Opera, Wales Millennium Centre and National Youth Arts Wales.

In addition to his singing, Craig has played a significant role in finding the next generation of young singers. Craig helped to create Only Boys Aloud back in 2012, became a choir leader for the group and now leads The Aloud Charity artistically as their Creative Director. Under his guidance, the charity expanded its reach, working with boys, girls, and children right across Wales. Craig also teaches singing and takes vocal workshops right across the UK.

Professional Singer, Advisor, Facilitator

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​Ruth Haugen is one of a new generation of Welsh choral conductors and vocal coaches working with individuals and communities across the country to keep the Welsh choral tradition alive for current and future generations. Having studied Music at Cardiff University, she went on to become one of a handful of professional full-time community choral animateurs (specialising in singing for health & wellbeing) in Wales, and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic co-founded award-winning social enterprise Choirs For Good. Ruth is passionate about singing and its power to change peoples’ lives and the communities they live in, and Choirs For Good exists to demonstrate that choirs are powerful entities that can give back to society and are part of a sustainable, integrated approach to helping people live more connected, fulfilling lives. Ruth’s work is deeply connected to the social prescribing movement and the Wellbeing of Future Generation’s Act. 

Professional Singer, Advisor, Facilitator

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Llinos is originally from the Swansea valley where she spent most of her childhood receiving violin, piano and singing lessons, playing in various orchestras, singing in various choirs and competing in Eisteddfodau. It was inevitable then that Llinos went on to study music and she graduated with a BMus (hons) in 2004 and a MA in Composition and Violin Performance in 2006 from the University of Wales, Bangor. She then graduated with a PGCE in Secondary Music from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff in 2007 and taught Music and Welsh for four years in comprehensive schools in south Wales. Llinos then decided to change career and worked at the Urdd National Eisteddfod as part of the organising team for four years, being involved with the logistics of a large outdoor arts festival every year. Llinos is currently the Creative Manager at The Aloud Charity where she has worked since 2014. She is involved with the day to day running of the Aloud choirs as well as arranging concerts and tours which has included prestigious venues such as Downing Street, The Palace of Westminster and Windsor Castle and has been in charge of hundreds of young people on tours abroad to Belgium, France, Brittany and Disneyland Paris. The best part of Llinos’ job is seeing the development in the young people – from being shy at their first rehearsal to singing their first solo on stage in front of hundreds of people, it’s so rewarding to see how music can transform young people and give them lifelong skills and friendships.

Professional Singer, Advisor, Facilitator

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Artistic Director and Performance Coach

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Michelle works internationally both as a Director/ Choreographer for Theatre and large events and as a highly experienced Performance Coach specialising in performance anxiety, communication and confidence.
Her career began as a versatile triple threat performer in Musical Theatre with 10years
under London Agents Keddie Scott Associates that saw her amass many wonderful touring and west end credits.
She has taught and coached for theatre companies, colleges and theatre schools and the Cameron Mackintosh Company. And she is the Artistic Director of The Performance Centres in Cardiff. An award winning part time performing arts school and private examination centre for LAMDA and ISTD that provides training and experience to a select 200 students a week in Acting, Singing and Dance (Ballet, Tap, Modern, Contemporary) and specialises in higher ed audition preparation and guidance.
She is delighted to be facilitating this launch event for the Anna’s Song Charity.

Actor and Coach

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Tom is an Actor & Coach from Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. He graduated from the Guildford School of Acting in 2015 with a 1st class BA (Hons) in Musical Theatre. He is currently playing the role of Banquo in the brand new musical ‘Lady M’ premiering in Shanghai, China and recently played Thomas Ledbury in ‘Coram Boy’, a play at Chichester Festival Theatre. He is a member of the critically acclaimed vocal group ‘Welsh of the West End’, appeared on the semi-finals of Britain's Got Talent and starred on BBC’s ‘I Can See Your Voice’ Christmas Special S2. Tom is a Grade 8 Pianist, self-taught guitarist, drummer and produces his own music via his YouTube channel. Along side his acting career, Tom regularly lectures technical singing at two prestigious UK Drama Schools (Guildford School of Acting & Italia Conti) & runs a successful coaching business focusing on training drama school applicants.