Huw Daniel

Huw Daniel is a member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and was appointed one of their leaders in 2020.

Huw studied at Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera, South Wales, before becoming an organ scholar at Robinson College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first-class honours in music in 2001. He then studied baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music for two years with Simon Standage. In 2004, Daniel was a member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO), the members of which formed Harmony of Nations and went on to play together and record two CDs.

He has been the leader of Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música, Porto since 2004, where he frequently plays concertos and occasionally directs the orchestra. He is also a member of the Dunedin Consort and the Irish Baroque Orchestra. As guest-leader he has played and recorded with EUBO, English Concert, Academy of Ancient Music, King’s Consort, The Sixteen and Barokkanerne Oslo. He has recorded two CDs of Purcell trio sonatas with Cecilia Bernardini and The King’s Consort and has also recorded the Bach double violin concerto with Cecilia Bernardini and the Dunedin Consort.

Daniel is an Associate of the Royal College of Organists and in 2014 was elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. In 2010 he was selected to take part in Jumpstart Jr Foundation's instrument loan programme and now plays a violin by Jacob Stainer, 1665. He is also a keen viola d'amore player.