Dani Howard

Source: National Centre for the Performing ArtsMay/22/2021

     
Dani Howard is a British composer and orchestrator who is quickly gaining international recognition with regular performances across Europe, the US and Asia. 2019 marks her debut with the London Symphony Orchestra (a new commission for Cheltenham Festival conducted by Elim Chan), BBC Symphony Orchestra and a return to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic with a new commission for the opening of their 2019-20 season conducted by Vasily Petrenko. Her debut opera with ‘The Opera Story’ premiered in 2019 “a sophisticated and incredibly beautiful piece that surely places Howard amongst the best of contemporary British opera composers” (Bachtrack). In 2018 she received her Royal Albert Hall Debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra performing “Argentum” – commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society and Classic FM, and has had her works performed by the the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Orquestra Clássica da Madeira, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia, Multi-Story Orchestra, Orchestra Vitae among others, and was composer in residence at the Suoni Dal Golfo Festival of Music and Poetry (Italy). She graduated from the Royal College of Music as a Rose Williams Scholar, where she received a first class BMus Honors Degree. Born and raised in Hong Kong, she is interested in collaborating with artists of various disciplines, she has worked with dancers, artists, film-makers and architects on a variety of projects.

Competitions include the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, 1st Prize in the ‘Breaking The Fourth Wall International Composition Competition’, ‘Emerging Artist’ winner in the Chamber Music OC International New Music Competition 2019, 3rd Prize in the International Antonin Dvorak Composition Competition (Prague) and 10th International Sun River Prize (China). She has been made a finalist for the Alba Rosa Vietor Composition Competition (Netherlands), International A. Rendano Composition Competition (Italy) and the British section of the ISCM World Music Days Festival (Slovenia) among others.

In 2021 she is looking forward to commissions with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Apollo Saxophone Quartet, and the premiere of a new Trombone Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and soloist Peter Moore, Principal Trombone of the London Symphony Orchestra.


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