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Huw Daniel plays a traditional Welsh tune on a 17th century pochette.
Pochetter (kit), anonymous, 17th century. MIMEd 0332. collections.ed.ac.uk/stcecilias/record/113707
Huw Daniel was a pupil at Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera, South Wales, and was then an organ scholar at Robinson College, Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours in music in 2001. He then studied the baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music for two years with Simon Standage. In 2004, Huw was a member of European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO), the members of which formed Harmony of Nations and went on to play together and record two CDs. He is the leader of Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música since 2004, one of the leaders of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and a member of the Dunedin Consort and the Irish Baroque Orchestra. As guest-leader he has played and recorded with EUBO, the English Concert, the King’s Consort, the Sixteen, and Barokkanerne Oslo.
Huw Daniel plays a traditional Welsh tune on a 17th century pochette.
Pochetter (kit), anonymous, 17th century. MIMEd 0332. collections.ed.ac.uk/stcecilias/record/113707
Huw Daniel was a pupil at Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera, South Wales, and was then an organ scholar at Robinson College, Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours in music in 2001. He then studied the baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music for two years with Simon Standage. In 2004, Huw was a member of European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO), the members of which formed Harmony of Nations and went on to play together and record two CDs. He is the leader of Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música since 2004, one of the leaders of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and a member of the Dunedin Consort and the Irish Baroque Orchestra. As guest-leader he has played and recorded with EUBO, the English Concert, the King’s Consort, the Sixteen, and Barokkanerne Oslo.
