{{Short description|Welsh conductor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Tim Rhys-Evans | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] | image = [[File:Tim Rhys-Evans conducting at the AMIS Honor Choir 2019 in Beijing.jpg|200px|Tim Rhys-Evans conducting at the AMIS Honor Choir 2019 in Beijing]] | caption = Rhys-Evans conducting at the [[Association for Music in International Schools|AMIS]] Honor Choir 2019 in [[Beijing]], [[China]] | birth_name = Timothy Rhys-Evans | birth_place = [[New Tredegar]], Wales | occupation = Conductor | spouse = Alun Rhys Jenkins }}
'''Timothy Rhys-Evans''' [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] FRWCMD (born c. 1972)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/tim-rhys-evans-i-wasnt-blessed-1910547|title=Tim Rhys-Evans: ‘I wasn’t blessed with a wonderful voice’|first=Karen|last=Price|date=29 July 2010|website=WalesOnline.co.uk|accessdate=12 August 2020}}</ref> is a Welsh conductor and best known as the founder and musical director of the choir [[Only Men Aloud!]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/new-welsh-face-2008-tim-2136220|title=New Welsh Face of 2008: Tim Rhys-Evans|date=22 December 2008|website=WalesOnline.co.uk|accessdate=12 August 2020}}</ref> and [[Only Boys Aloud]]. He also formed the children's choir Only Kids Aloud in 2012.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17557322 BBC News - Only Kids Aloud follow in footsteps of Only Men Aloud], Bbc.co.uk, accessed 24 February 2013</ref>
Rhys-Evans, from [[New Tredegar]], was a vocal tutor at the [[Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rwcmd.ac.uk/other/news/headlines/only_men_aloud.aspx|title=RWCMD|website=Rwcmd.ac.uk|accessdate=12 August 2020}}</ref> He has conducted several choirs, including The Black Mountain Male Chorus of Wales and Dunvant Male Choir.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dunvantchoir.wales/|title=DUNVANT MALE CHOIR|website=Dunvant Male Choir|accessdate=12 August 2020}}</ref> He founded Only Men Aloud! in 2000<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/lastchoirstanding/choirs/onlymen/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307205415/http://www.bbc.co.uk/lastchoirstanding/choirs/onlymen/|url-status=dead|title=BBC Last Choir Standing|archivedate=7 March 2009|accessdate=12 August 2020}}</ref> (also known at Cantorion) and led them to victory in the ''[[Last Choir Standing]]'' competition in 2008.
In August 2010, Rhys-Evans was one of several new members admitted to the [[Gorsedd]] of bards at the [[National Eisteddfod of Wales]]. He is a Champion for the charity Music in Hospitals Cymru/Wales. He was appointed [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to music and for charitable services.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=60534|supp=y|page=17|date=15 June 2013}}</ref>
On 5 July 2019 Rhys-Evans was made a Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.rwcmd.ac.uk/2019/07/05/graduation-2019/|title=Graduation 2019|website=Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama|date=5 July 2019}}</ref>
In January 2020, Rhys-Evans was appointed Director of Music at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.rwcmd.ac.uk/press-release/rwcmd-appoints-only-men-alouds-tim-rhys-evans-mbe-as-new-director-of-music/|title=RWCMD Appoints Only Men Aloud’s Tim Rhys-Evans as New Director of Music |website=Blog.rwcmd.ac.uk|accessdate=12 August 2020}}</ref>
==Personal life== Tim has a civil partnership with Welsh tenor Alun Rhys Jenkins.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/only-boys-aloud-tim-rhys-evans-1471530|title='I was bullied at school but now my choir's on X Factor final': Only Boys Aloud maestro having last laugh|newspaper=[[Daily Mirror]]|date=4 December 2012|author=Melissa Thompson|access-date=27 November 2018}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.dunvantchoir.org Dunvant Male Choir website] {{Authority control}}
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