BluestoneArts is a social enterprise company which promotes music, words and visual arts in north Pembrokeshire.
    We work closely with other organisations and events to enhance the life of people in Pembrokeshire - whether resident or visitor.

BluestoneArts Chief Executive, Myles Pepper
Myles has worked for 30 years in the field of arts and culture. Having studied in the School of Jewellery and Silversmithing in Birmingham Polytechnic in the early 1970's he has been established in North Pembrokeshire ever since.
    After running a series of work-shops, including training apprentices, he established his first gallery in Fishguard in 1983.
   Expanding to a larger premises in 1987, which is known as the West Wales Arts Centre, again in Fishguard, the move to a larger premises enabled the presenting of a wider arts programme including music performances and lectures.
    Under the inspiration of the then young cellist Nia Harries, from Dinas, and a peripatetic strings teacher, Bridget Jenkins, together they began to put on musical recitals - the first at the Centre and then, as they grew in popularity, in venues such as churches, chapels and community centres.

BluestoneArts Artistic Director, Andrew Powell
Andrew read music at King's College, Cambridge, where he was a member, together with Roger Smalley & Tim Souster of the live electronics group Intermodulation, which gave first performances of several works by Stockhausen, as well as of works by all of its members. Prior to going to Cambridge he had attended composition classes with Stockhausen and Ligeti at Darmstadt: after leaving Cambridge he was a soloist at the "Proms" in London, played in the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Pierre Boulez, and in a group with the Japanese percussion virtuoso Stomu Yamash'ta. He worked as arranger/conductor on dozens of albums for "rock" artists as diverse as Cockney Rebel & Cliff Richard, John Miles & Al Stewart, Mick Fleetwood & Il Divo, as producer for Kate Bush, Chris de Burgh, Kansas and Elaine Paige, and was arranger, conductor and co-composer for The Alan Parsons Project's 15 albums. He wrote scores for the films Ladyhawke (Michelle Pfeiffer, dir. Richard Donner,) Rocket Gibraltar (Burt Lancaster, dir. Dan Petrie,) and has contributed music to many other films and T.V. series.

His concert works include Suite for Brass Quintet with Piano (Equale Brass: 1985), Plasmogeny II for trumpet, live electronics and tape, (released on a Deux Elles C.D., performed by John Wallace and Powell,) Within Those Radiances... for brass quintet & live electronics (The Wallace Collection: 2000), Falstaff, premièred at the Cité de la Musique in Paris in July 1998 by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band: other commissions include Fish Throw Stones, written for the LCO, and Concerto Melyn Coch, commissioned by the Arts Council of Wales, (James Watson: 2001). His most recent premières include Tair Cerdd Sanctaidd, (Gareth Rhys-Davies, Catrin Finch, Parc & Dare Band), and Variations Towards a Theme (Bella Tromba). He is currently writing a children's opera and a major orchestral work for Christopher Warren-Green.

BluestoneArts Chairman, Ian Hunter OBE
Ian is a management development consultant who has spent much of his working life running both not-for-profit businesses and commercial trading enterprises.

He is currently a Member of Glas Cymru (the holding company for Dwr Cymru/Welsh Water), a Trustee of several Pembrokeshire charities and a member of the Court of Cardiff University. He is actively involved in the operational side of Fishguard and Goodwick Lifeboat Station and a patron of the Fishguard International Music Festival.

He describes his musical tastes as ‘catholic’ and very much enjoys other peoples’ paintings and reading poetry