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Here we take a look at the British composer, Dani Howard<\/a><\/strong>. Her new work for 300 musicians is premiered by the National Youth Orchestra<\/a><\/strong> at the BBC Proms 2024<\/strong><\/a> in London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall<\/a><\/strong> on 10 August. Her first piece for professional symphony orchestra, Argentum<\/em> (2017), is also performed at the 2024 CBeebies Ocean Adventure Proms at Bristol Beacon<\/a><\/strong> on 26 August.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p> Dani Howard is a British composer with an impressive list of commissions from ensembles including the London Symphony Orchestra<\/a><\/strong>, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra<\/a><\/strong>, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC orchestras.\u00a0<\/p> Her debut album of orchestral works, containing her RPS Award-winning Trombone Concerto<\/a><\/strong>, is out on Rubicon<\/a><\/strong>. She has recently been appointed artist-in-residence with the National Youth Orchestra.<\/p> Dani Howard was born in 1993, and is 31 years old.\u00a0<\/p> Howard was born in Hong Kong, where she attended the South Island School. She later studied composition at the Royal College of Music in London (2011-15) with Jonathan Cole.<\/p> \u2018I didn\u2019t realise you could actually study composing, but once I found out, I applied to conservatoires in the UK at 16, and started at the Royal College of Music<\/a><\/strong> in London, aged 17,\u2019 she says.\u00a0<\/p> In June 2024, we interviewed Dani Howard for\u00a0BBC Music Magazine<\/em>. She described learning musical instruments as a child and into her teens:<\/p> \u2018When I was young, I wanted to hit things! At five I demanded to learn the drums at school and eventually, after a year of lessons, my parents bought me a drum kit. Considering we lived in an apartment in Hong Kong, that was good of them. I loved playing drums and making up songs, but my mother thought it would be a good idea for me and my siblings to learn the piano<\/a><\/strong>. I had a wonderful teacher, Anne Grady, but I couldn\u2019t get excited about the piano.\u00a0<\/p> \u2018Once I started learning cello<\/a><\/strong> [at the age of 10] with Richard Bamping it changed my life. He was principal cello of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. In the eight years I studied with him, he opened my mind to classical music.\u00a0<\/p> \u2018I was 15 or 16 when he played me Britten<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s Cello Suite No. 1, which opens with all those double stops. Something opened up in my mind and my ears. That contemporary soundworld felt fresh and exciting.<\/p>Who is Dani Howard?<\/h2>
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