Lenny Sayers
Presenter
Lenny Sayers is a performer, composer, teacher and presenter. He is Principal Bass Clarinet player of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and a tutor in clarinet at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He studied Music at York University and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
He has devised and presented the family concerts for the Penarth Chamber Music Festival since it began in 2014 and has presented concerts for BBC NOW and at chamber music festivals in Winchester and Corbridge.
His compositions have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Wales, Radio Cymru, BBC Radio Scotland and four of his orchestral works have featured in BBC NOW Family concerts. His chamber opera “Shoulder to Shoulder” commissioned by Swansea City Opera has enjoyed three tours of community venues around Wales in 2022, 2023 and 2025. He has also been commissioned by Cardiff County and Vale of Glamorgan Youth Orchestra and the Welsh black-light theatre group ‘Hummadruz’.
Lenny is actively involved in the community and outreach work of BBC NOW and at the RWCMD tutors on the ‘Engagement’ module. From 2016-2018 he worked as a creative agent for the Arts Council of Wales on their Lead Creative Schools scheme.