Dean Powell

A lengthy career as an award-winning journalist has allowed Dean the opportunity to develop his skills in the field of public relations. Presently he is associated with a number of artists, conductors, actors, record producers and various organisations ranging from heritage groups and charitable trusts to choirs and orchestras in assisting them to raise their profile.

Press Award Winner, 1999

Dean regularly works with such clients as Welsh Proms founder Owain Arwel Hughes, singer Iris Williams, actor Glyn Houston, composer Adrian Munsey and tenor Stuart Burrows.

Since 1993 he is responsible for the extensive publicity work in partnership with Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and American media in promoting the many sell-out concert tours of the Treorchy Male Choir. He is the content manager of their website, www.treorchymalechoir.com

A graduate of the University of Wales Swansea, Dean followed a post-graduate certificate in journalism. He was employed by Celtic Newspapers in South Wales where he worked on a series of weekly titles as a senior reporter. In 1999 he was amongst the top three candidates in the country to receive his NCTJ certificate for proficiency in the field of journalism and was the recipient of a highly-commended BT Press Award as Welsh Weekly Journalist of the Year.

At the age of 28, Dean was appointed the editor of the Pontypridd & Llantrisant Observer, becoming the youngest newspaper editor in Wales and for the next five years developed the newspaper's content, style and quality, helping it become one of the top ten fastest growing titles in the UK. He was af senior reporter with the Western Mail and sub-editor for the South Wales Echo. Dean was later appointed Literary Editor for the Western Mail and WM Magazine. He later became a broadcast journalist for BBC Radio Wales.

Sir Richard Attenborough, 2005

Due to his work as a local historian and author he remains in demand to appear on a variety of television documentaries. In recent years he appeared on programmes celebrating the lives of Sir Geraint Evans, Donald & Glyn Houston and the latest of very many guest appearances discussing the life of Dr William Price with Welsh broadcaster Iolo Williams, Eddie Butler and TV presenter Chris Tarrant.