Dani Howard
Born1993
NationalityBritish
Alma materRoyal College of Music
OccupationComposer

Dani Howard (born 1993[1][2]) is a British composer originally from Hong Kong, where she attended the South Island School.[3]

She attended the Royal College of Music between 2011 and 2015, where she studied composition with Jonathan Cole as a Rose Williams Scholar.[4]

Since graduating, she has worked with orchestras including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Southbank Sinfonia, Orchestra Vitae, and Bloomington Symphony Orchestra. Most recently she has been one of the composers-in-residence at the International Suoni Dal Golfo Festival of Music and Poetry.[5]

In 2017, she was selected by ClassicFM to write a new work celebrating the 25th anniversary of the classical music radio station. Written for orchestra, her piece 'Argentum' was premiered by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in September 2017.[6][7][8]

She was a finalist in the 2014 and 2015 editions of the International Antonín Dvořák Composition Competition, held in Prague. In both years, she won the Junior 3rd Special Prize for the best free composition in the junior category[9][10]

Her works have been released on NonClassical,[11] Listenpony[12] and TYXart[13] record labels, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3,[14] BBC 4,[15] ClassicFM and RTHK.

Her opera The Yellow Wallpaper, based on the 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, with libretto by Joseph Spence, premiered in August 2023 at the Copenhagen Opera Festival.[16]

List of works

Orchestral/large ensemble

Chamber music

Solo/duo

The Vino Encores: A series of encores for solo instrument and wineglass

References

  1. ^ "Dani Howard | ABO Resonate". resonate.abo.org.uk. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Finalists Composition Competition 2016 - Alba Rosa Viëtor". Alba Rosa Viëtor. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  3. ^ "A source of musical inspiration". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  4. ^ "[MUSIC]". www.cmd-e.com. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Suoni dal Golfo". Suoni dal Golfo. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  6. ^ "'I used to change my piano pieces and say "Mendelssohn should have done it this way"' – composer Dani Howard". Classic FM. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  7. ^ "Classic FM Live". Royal Philharmonic Society. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  8. ^ "Bill Turnbull and composer Dani Howard". Classic FM. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  9. ^ "Prize Winners 2015 - Prize Winners - International Antonin Dvorak Composition Competition". www.iadcc.kr (in Korean). Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  10. ^ "Prize Winner Category". www.iadcc.kr (in Korean). Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  11. ^ "Outside the Lines - Vol. 1, by Various Artists". Nonclassical. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  12. ^ "Live at Listenpony: Mainly Two | News | Listenpony". Listenpony. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  13. ^ "XII Fantasie per il Flauto senza Basso". Andrew Benson-Wilson : Early Music Reviews +. 29 April 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  14. ^ "Dani Howard - Concerts, Biography & News - BBC Music". BBC. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  15. ^ "30 seconds interview: Dani Howard - M Magazine". M magazine: PRS for Music online magazine. 28 March 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  16. ^ Camilla (4 June 2023). "The Yellow Wallpaper". Copenhagen Opera Festival. Retrieved 4 August 2023.

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