Dani Howard graduated from the Royal College of Music 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 internationally in venues including St. Martin in the Fields, St. Johns Smith Square, National Gallery and Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, Britten Theatre, Musik Akademie Basel, Teatro A. Rendano among others, and in countries including England, Scotland, Wales, Italy, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Netherlands, Romania, Brazil and USA (New York, California, Indiana, Michigan, Oregon, Maryland, Nevada and North Carolina). Her works have been performed by ensembles including Cabrillo Festival Orchestra (California) , Orchestra Vitae (UK), London City Orchestra, RCM Philharmonic, ESF Orchestra (Hong Kong), Ensemble 360 (Sheffield), MainlyTwo, Kensington Brass, PERC’M among others. 

Dani Howard has just won 1st Prize in the ‘Breaking The Fourth Wall International Composition Competition’ 2017 (New York), and 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 by the festival orchestra (supported by HelpMusicians UK, PRS/Bliss Trust). Recent competitions include the Alba Rosa Vietor Composition Competition, Netherlands, where her new work ‘Axis’ for piano trio was premiered in the competition final, October 2016.

In 2014-15, she was named winner of the RCM Concerto Competition, and won the Royal Philharmonic Society/IdeasTap Sound:Vision Competition, as well as being awarded 3rd Prize among junior participants in both the 5th and 6th International Antonin Dvorak Composition Competition, Prague. She was selected as one of seven finalists 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, China.

Interested in collaborating with artists in a variety of disciplines, she has worked with dancers, architects, film-makers and visual artists on a number of projects, and hopes to continue this work in the field of cross-arts collaboration. To date, 4 compositions have been aired on BBC Radio 3, and 1 broadcasted on BBC Channel 4.

1. BMus - First Class Honors Composition

   Royal College of Music · Sep 2011 - Jul 2015