BSO’s Celebrated Composer’s final concert of “Coalescence”

Seen and Heard International review

UK Premiere - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - REVIEW

Saxophone Concerto Scottish Premiere with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra - REVIEW

Thoroughly Good Review

“Composer Dani Howard’s first album release celebrates her technicolour orchestration in a range of orchestral works including the whimsical Trombone Concerto that lit up Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall mid-pandemic.”

As ONE - Reviews

FINANCIAL TIMES
“... A surround-sound experience on a grand scale. Was this the largest orchestra ever heard in the Royal Albert Hall?”

The Opera Story: The Yellow Wallpaper REVIEWS

REACTION
“As an artwork it is profound. In execution it was compelling. Delivered by a team of top quality artists in harmony, with a common cause. The Yellow Wallpaper is opera with true purpose.”

OPERA NOW
“The Yellow Wallpaper is a work that creates a comfortable zone to reflect on the past, and discuss how we want things to be as we move forward. The protagonist’s journey through isolation highlights the need to communicate, and though it may trigger difficult conversations it can help us explore how we take better care of each other”

PLANET HUGILL
“This opera was a remarkable, confident step for both Dani Howard and The Opera Story… This felt very much like a personal project, the opera was the shape it was because the creators felt it should be like that, and this was a terrific evening in the theatre. Wisely, the company did not try to perform it with anything else, for a first outing, The Yellow Wallpaper was strong on its own.”

Dani Howard has just been named winner of the 2021 Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the Large-scale Composition Category.
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Read the reviews of the Premiere here in:

The Times
Seen and Heard International
Thoroughly Good Blog
Seen in the Telegraphs ‘Top 100 Cultural Events of 2021″

How I write for strings: Composer Dani Howard

Read the feature here

Dani has been featured in BBC Music Magazine: Meet the Composer
View/download PDF here: BBC Music Magazine – December 2021

Bachtrack
Observer
Opera Now
Big Issue
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Read the reviews of the performance of “Coalescence” performed by NYO 3rd January 2022 here:

The Telegraph ****

“The two pieces by young composers seemed tailor-made to fit the mood. Howard’s Coalescence created a picture of humans and nature “coalescing” into harmonious co-existence in radiant harmonies and swelling brass chorales, subsiding at one point to a calm in which the twitter and hoot of birds peeped through.”

The Times ****

“The London premiere of Dani Howard’s Coalescence had more for the orchestra to get its teeth into. It’s cleverly scored as it contrasts metallic sounds of the modern urban environment with more organic-sounding textures.”

Read the concert review here:
Guardian – Cheltenham concert review

Read Planet Hugill’s feature on Dani Howard here: Planet Hugill – Cheltenham interview

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