Music Chamber

Daniel Hewson took up the piano from an early age, composing his first pieces for piano and orchestra at ten. He won the top music scholarship to Cranleigh School and later joined the National Youth Orchestra as a trombonist. He composed a Rhapsody for piano and orchestra that was performed in Budapest with Daniel as soloist, and won the Osgood Composition Prize for his String Quartet, composed when he was sixteen and later premiered by the Allegri Quartet. 

Daniel studied piano with Alan Gravill and composition with Peter Dickinson, George Benjamin and Robert Sherlaw-Johnson. After completing a music degree at Oxford University he lived and worked in London, and has recently moved to the Portugese capital Lisbon. He co-founded dance act The Beat Foundation, writing and remixing for the Art of Noise and arranging strings for Groove Armada. Daniel has performed with artists as diverse as Bobby Wellins, Mornington Lockett, Nigel Kennedy, Joanna McGregor and Stomp's "Lost and Found Orchestra" (Brighton Festival, Sydney Opera House).