Huw Daniel was a pupil at Ysgol Gymraeg Castell-nedd and Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera, South Wales, and continued his education as an organ scholar at Robinson College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first-class honours in music in 2001. He then studied at the Royal Academy of Music for two years, learning the modern violin with Hu Kun and baroque violin with Simon Standage.

In 2002, Huw was the winner of the Mark Jones Memorial Award, a prize given annually to a young musician in West Glamorgan, and in 2003 he won the John Fussell Young Artist Award, giving a recital at the Swansea Festival. He has also won many prizes at the Urdd National Eisteddfod, and the Royal National Eisteddfod, both as a soloist and as a member of a group, and in 1997 he was the winner of the main Urdd Eisteddfod Scholarship.

One of Huw’s chief interests is Historical Performance, and he is a member of the period-instrument Arcangelo Quartet and the Marésienne Consort. He plays with several period-instrument orchestras, including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the English Concert, the London Handel Orchestra, the King’s Consort, the Irish Baroque Orchestra, Collegium Musicum 90, St James’s Baroque, Florilegium, and Ex Cathedra, and leads the Remix Baroque Orchestra, Porto, Portugal. He will also lead English Touring Opera’s 2005 tour of Handel’s Alcina. He plays the modern violin regularly with Sinfonia Cymru, the National Chamber Orchestra of Wales, and the Neath Chamber Orchestra.

Huw has performed in many of the UK’s major concert halls and further afield in France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Norway, Croatia, and Hong Kong, and has given solo recitals in London, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and South Wales. He is an ex-member of the National Youth Orchestras of Great Britain and Wales, and an Associate of the Royal College of Organists.


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