Dani Howard

Score and parts available here: https://www.howardcoll.com/product-page/blue-pavilion-for-brass-quintet

Blue Pavilion is a new work written for Brass Quintet inspired by the room designed by architects Pezo von Ellrichshausen. The piece explores the idea of ‘Simple things, but which taken together suggest something more complex’. Commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts and inspired by the Pezo von Elrichshaussen installation, Blue Pavilion was premiered in the gallery by Kensington Brass. 

Recorded by the RCM Studio's
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Blue Pavilion

A recent recording made of composition 'Ascending To Serenity' written 2013.

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Often when living in the midst of a busy city, it becomes far too easy to lose sight of perspective. Inspired by the Icon of the London Eye, Ascending to Serenity (commissioned by the Pacific Trio London) for piano, bass clarinet and violin, aims to take the listener on a path journeying beyond daily life. Beginning at ground level, surrounded by everyone and everything, the listener is soon lifted above the rooftops of London, able to observe their world on an unfamiliar scale. Looking high over the city, this music aims to offer appreciation of an unexplored beauty in our familiar environment. The music gradually dips back into a now more grounded reality, allowing for clarity of thought upon return to our daily lives.

Performed by Maria Setiadi (Piano), Emma Burgess (Bass Clarinet), Laia Braun (Violin)
© Dani Howard 2016

Ascending To Serenity

Extract from 'Haven' For Orchestra, performed at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Santa Cruz, California August 2016. 

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Haven (For Orchestra) EXTRACT

Commissioned by Orchestra Vitae 2016, Arches was premiered in St. Johns Smith Square, London 5th October 2016. 

Arches is inspired by ups and downs (in many senses of the phrase). This concert commemorates the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, and therefore as the work developed it became structured around the theatrical elements and dynamics in relationships, and emotional ups and downs we go through. This is something we see in all of his work, and I was particularly interested in how he communicated this in an often playful and dynamic way, which is what shaped the character of this piece. 

I am very pleased to have the world premiere given in this venue as I have been very influenced by the architecture in St. Johns Smith Square, which originally gave the piece its’ title; Arches.

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