Daniel Bath – Keyboard, Strings, Voice and Brass
Daniel has played the piano and composed music for as long as he can remember. He studied music at Cambridge University.
Since moving to Todmorden in 1997, he has worked as a community musician and teacher in all sorts of settings, including nursery, refugee centre, high school, church, prison, and has composed music for theatre, opera, choir and for various community events. He has trained several youth and adult choirs, and conducts West Yorkshire’s wonderful youth chamber orchestra, Young Philharmonia at Square Chapel. He is also musical director for Actors’ Workshop Youth Theatre, Halifax.
Daniel teaches music at Highbury Primary School for children with special educational needs, and works as a tutor for Amber Trust, a charity for visually impaired young musicians.
He is also a specialist in multicultural music-making and has studied Indian classical singing. In 2010 he led Parkinson Lane Community Primary School Choir to be the first to perform Islamic song on BBC’s Songs of Praise.
If you like jazz, listen out for The Daniel Bath Trio.