from Traveling Tunes // Traveling Sounds, released November 30, 2016
"Dani Howard graduated from the Royal College of Music, London where she received a first class BMus Honors Degree. She was a Rose Williams scholar supported by the Henry Wood Trust, and studied composition under Jonathan Cole. She has had her compositions performed and screened across the UK and Internationally in countries including Italy, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Netherlands, Romania, Brazil and USA (NY, California, Indiana, Michigan, Oregon, Maryland, Nevada and North Carolina).

Dani Howard is currently one of the winners of the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, as well as a London Symphony Orchestra Sound-hub Associate Member. She was recently invited as a composition fellow to the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, California, where her orchestral work ‘Haven’ was premiered (supported by HelpMusicians UK, PRS/Bliss Trust). Recent competitions include becoming a finalist in the Alba Rosa Vietor Composition Competition in the Netherlands Oct 2016. In 2014-15 she was named winner of the RCM Concerto Competition, Royal Philharmonic Society/IdeasTap Sound:Vision Competition, and was awarded 3rd Prize among junior participants in the 5th and 6th International Antonin Dvorak Composition Competition, Prague. In 2015 she was selected as a finalist for the International A. Rendano composition competition, Italy, and was shortlisted for the British Section of the ISCM World Music Days Festival, Slovenia. Additionally she won 3rd Prize in the 10th International Cheng- du Sun River Composition Prize in China.

Current and recent commissions include a score for the theatre production ‘Echoes of Ebola’, (New York), an orchestral and choral work for the London City Orchestra, and an RPS commission for Ensemble 360 (Sheffield).

www.danihoward.com"