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Hywel Davies is a composer and sonic artist.
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Hywel Davies is a composer and sonic artist.
He is currently at work on a permanent sound installation for the remodelled
Sevenoaks Library and Arts Gallery and a piece for the Arts Council England
telephone system. Recent concert works include new pieces for Ealing
Youth Orchestra, London Flutes and Ephyra. Concert works in progress
include new works for Toca Loca (Canada) and a new work for toy piano for
Stephanie Chau (Canada).
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Hywel Davies is a composer and sonic artist. . Concert works
in progress include new works for Toca Loca (Canada) and a new work for toy
piano for Stephanie Chau (Canada). He has written concert pieces for
Kokoro, Bournemouth Symphony Strings ,
the Pavao String Quartet , the
Callino String Quartet , the
Royal Academy of Music Soloists, Toca Loca, the Goldberg
Ensemble , Méduse, Ealing Symphony Orchestra and La
Soave Melodia . His works have been performed in North and
Central America, Europe, Australia and the Far East, and broadcast by the
BBC, CBC (Canada) and ABC (Australia). In 2001 he won the George Butterworth
Composition Award for Crepusculum . Recent performers of his
work include London Flutes, Eleven, Ephyra (Sound 2007 Festival). He
was the recipient of an Arts Council International Fellowship (2003) and the
Muttart Foundation Scholarship (2005) for two periods as resident artist at
the Banff Centre in Canada.
An equally important strand of his work is sonic installation. His recent
work includes a permanent sound installation for the remodelled Sevenoaks
Library and Arts Gallery and a piece for the Arts Council England internal
telephone system. Hywel Davies has been artist in residence at ArtSway
, New Greenham Arts and
has been the recipient of a Year of the Artist Residency. His installed
works have been heard at the Bath
International Music Festival ( Soudings [1995] and Salva
me [2001]), ArtSway ( Waldscenen
[1999]), Tate Gallery Liverpool ( Miss Prentice Meets Josef Albers
at Francy's Easter Brunch [2000]), New
Greenham Arts ( Pastoral [2003]) and Peninsula Arts Festival
2007 (i-DAT). Hywel Davies also writes for dance. In 1996 he was a composer
delegate on the Creative Dance Trust's course for composers and choreographers
(directors Robert Cohan and Nigel Osborne). His works for dance include a
commission from the Danish Theatre Council for an hour-long score for Copenhagen-based
choreographer Helen Saunders
(2003). As a recording artist he contributed to Russell Mills Undarki
project (along with Edge, Brian and Roger Eno, Robin Guthrie, Bill Laswell
and David Sylvian) to This began a relationship with Time Recording that resulted
in Natural Language , a
solo album of studio collage works that was released in 1998 to critical acclaim.
His most recent recording was as a guest performer on Birgit Lřkke Larsen's
2003 CD Forbidden
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