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Name Daniel Hewson
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User Name danielhewson
Member Status  Full Member
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Home Page www.danielhewson.co.uk
Date of birth 18/06/1973
Region Portugal  
Interests Contemporary Classical, Jazz
Profile Pianist, trombonist and composer Daniel Hewson is fast making a name for himself in both the UK and Portugal. He is a multi-talented musician equally at home in classical, jazz and pop music.

Played in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Studied music at Oxford University, composition with George Benjamin, Peter Dickinson and Robert Sherlaw-Johnson, piano with Alan Gravill and trombone with Graham Bolton.

"The heartfelt string arrangements of Edge Hill... "(Andy Puleston, BBC)
"The glorious strings that explode from Edge Hill are proof of life..." (Ryan Jones, Dance Music Weekly)
".....driving rhythms punctuate the quartet and quintet which have influences of Bartok and Stravinsky but are resolutely Hewson`s voice with beautiful melodic structures....modern classical music as it should be - challenging yet tuneful. Highly recommended!" (Richard C, London)
"...truly electrifying. I love the way Secret Doors combines elements of jazz with the more `classical` sound" (Peter Bance, Cambridge Review)
"I have just played Daniel`s CD Secret Doors and really enjoyed it. The rhythmic drive was most exciting and he had some catchy melodies." (Anthony J. Sluce, Manchester)

Daniel Hewson was born in London to musical parents. He 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.

After completing a music degree at Oxford University he lived and worked in London, co-founding progressive house band The Beat Foundation, releasing club hits Foundations (1996) and Save Me (1997) as well as producing and remixing many different artists including De’Lacy, the Art of Noise and Bizarre Inc.
Daniel went on to write and arrange music for Madonna (Music, Groove Armada 12î remix) and Groove Armada (Goodbye Country, Lovebox, Soundboy Rock), co-writing and arrangin strings for their single Edge Hill, which was used extensively in film and TV, including the hit movie Tomb Raider and the series Lost. Daniel has had a parallel career as a pianist and trombonist, working with Bobby Wellins, Mornington Lockett, Joanna McGregor, Morcheeba, Nigel Kennedy, Urban Soul Orchestra, Gene Calderazzo, Julian Siegal, Zoe Rahman, Will Gaines, Uri Bashmet, North Sea Radio Orchestra and the Ixion ensemble.
2007 saw Daniel performing in the Sydney Opera House with Stompís Lost and Found Orchestra, as well as gigs in the UK and Portugal, and the release of his first classical album, Secret Doors. In 2008 Daniel will be recording the first studio album with Olissipo Eletrico, a Lisbon-based jazz/world music band, as well as performances with the Lost and Found Orchestra at the Royal festival Hall in December, and the release of his first jazz album, A Day in Cadiz.