COMPOSER
Portuguese Composer, Doctor of Music and Based in London. Daniel is also a camera producer, copyist and editor. Equally passionated by street and landscape photography.
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UPDATES
Remembering the future for high soprano, clarinet, viola and double base was premiered in Wigmore Hall in May 2019. Big thanks to Sophie Sparrow, Ed Holmes, Michiel Wittink and João Lucas for their amazing performance.
Stone Skipping premiered by the London Philharmonic Orchestra in November 2020
About
Daniel started as a composer in 2011 taking an undergraduate in the Lisbon Music College and in 2014 the same institution offered him a place to do the Masters in Composition. In 2016, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama offered him a place to do a Doctoral program with the composers Julian Philips and Richard Baker as supervisors and the composer Julian Anderson as his co-supervisor.* In 2020, the examiners of Daniel's Doctoral Viva, awarded him with the title of Doctor of Music; The examiners praised Daniel's original and rewarding music, and they enjoyed Daniel's exposure of compositional processes.
He was the Young Composer in residence of the 2014/2015 Concert Season of the Chamber Orchestra of Cascais and Oeiras. In 2014, the Calouste Gulbenkian Symphony Orchestra premiered his work …from the last breath at the Calouste Gulbenkian Music Hall in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2015, the Portuguese Symphonic Wind Orchestra premiered his work between places… at the Casa da Música in Porto, Portugal. For the 2016’s season, he was Associate Composer in the context of the Musicalmente - Music for Babies project. In parallel, for the 2015/2016’s Saint Jorges’ Castle’s season, Daniel, in partnership with the composer Sara Ross, created, with the support of the Arts Council in Portugal (EGEAC), the Lisbon Music College and the Saint Jorges’ Castle in Lisbon, the musical theatre named “Bau da Descoberta”.
In 2019, he was one of the particpants in the Opera & New Technologies Workshop with Michel van der Aa at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence supported by the ENOA Community and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Apart from Casa da Musica’s Music Hall in Porto and the Calouste Gulbenkian’s Music Hall in Lisbon, Daniel’s music has been performed in different international venues as for example Senhora da Boa Nova’s Music Hall in Cascais, Portugal, Milton Court’s Music Hall in London, United Kingdom, Ventura’s Music Hall in Athis Mons, France, Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp in Antwerp, Belgium and Esplanade’s Music Hall, Singapore.
Daniel was one of the five composers in residency of the Young Composers Scheme 2019-2020 by the London Philarmonic Orchestra and one of the Portuguese representatives in the World New Music Days 2020.
Daniel is now part of the 6 composers in residency for the ENOA Workshop Composing for voices and orchestra with the international awarded composer Kaija Saariaho, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon - Portugal.
Daniel Davis is represented by the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre - mic.pt and all his rights, in Portuguese territory, are protected by the Portuguese Author Society - SPA, and all his rights, in the rest of the world, are protected by the PRS For Music.
(*)Daniel was supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in his doctoral studies.
Mirroring the voice of time, a piece for ensemble premiered at Milton Court Concert Hall on 17th February 2020
Watch my interview from the London Philharmonic Orchestra about my Orchestral piece Stone Skipping, premiered by the LPO in November 2020
