Daniel Bath, conductor

Daniel Bath graduated with BA. Hons in music from Clare College, Cambridge, where he gave solo piano recitals and sang with several small choirs, performing Gregorian, Byzantine and Armenian chant. Whilst in Cambridge he also performed with Dr. Mary Berry's Schola Gregoriana.

He performs as a jazz and classical pianist, accompanist, arranger and conductor and is a choral director for Calderdale Schools' Music Service and Todmorden Choral Society. He also sings in and is deputy conductor of Salford Cathedral Choir.

He plays piano and harpsichord in guitarist, Robin Hill's band, Eklectica.

As well as instrumental pieces and solo songs, he has composed many shorter choral works, some of which have been performed by Salford Cathedral Choir and Todmorden Choral Society. His church music is published by Decani Music.

2002 saw the first performance of his song cycle, "Only My Words Can Dance", setting poems by Ian Emberson, commissioned by Hebden Bridge Arts Festival. And summer 2003 saw the premieres of his mini-opera, "The Forest" (text by Ian Emberson), supported by the Arts Council, and his cantata for children's choir, "The Lady of Shalott".

He has directed music for several youth theatre productions and currently works for Actor's Workshop Youth Theatre in Halifax, for whom he composes and performs incidental music for plays, cabaret and musicals.

He has studied Indian Music with tabla virtuoso, Praful Chavda and organized a series of Indian Music for Schools workshops in Calderdale.

Among Daniel's current projects is his new arrangement of Purcell's opera, Dido and Aeneas, for children's choir, due to be performed in July 2004.

He moved to Todmorden in 1997, where he now lives with his wife and four children and is in much demand as a teacher of singing and piano and as an all-round community musician.

Daniel's website is at www.handstogether.co.uk.