Lydia Griffiths
West End  - The Sound Of Rodgers and Hammerstein
New Years Eve Galas

Lydia is twenty four and was born and brought up in Wrexham, North Wales. In 1997 she won the second series of ITV's Big Big Talent Show hosted by Jonathan Ross. Later that year she was invited to perform for the Queen and Prince Phillip on the Royal Variety Show.

In the years that followed, Lydia made numerous appearances on television and radio shows around the country including The Mike Doyle Show, on HTV, Just up Your Street, on the BBC and Noson Lawen on S4C where she performed in Welsh.

Lydia has worked extensively with the BBC, one of her most exciting engagements was with the BBC concert orchestra when she appeared on Friday Night is Music Night for Radio 2.

Lydia’s Theatre credits include Anne Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (Theatre Clwyd), Great Expectations (Theatre Clwyd), the title role in Cinderella (Leamington Spa), Musical Magic (UK Tour), Sally Bowles in Cabaret (Chester Gateway), understudied and played the role of Clarice in Napoleon (Shaftesbury Theatre, London). Her last West End engagement was playing Cosette in Les Miserables (Palace Theatre, London).

She is a regular performer for Much Loved Productions and Dowell Productions and has performed with some of the countries leading military bands and concert orchestras, namely The London Philharmonic, the Prince of Wales Swing Band and the
Band of the Royal Life Guards.

In May 2002 Lydia appeared as a guest soloist at the Royal Albert Hall in a tribute to the music of Sir Tim Rice and the following year performed a tribute to Trevor Nunn alongside Roger Moore and Glenn Close.

At present Lydia is kept bust with concerts throughout the UK and has travelled the world as a guest artist onboard one of P&O’s many ships. She is also working on an album of original music.