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Danyal is a composer and arranger from South London, who specialises in opera and theatre music. He is chair of Lucid Arts and Music, which has co-produced three of his operas since the summer of 2012: The Secretary Turned CEO at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2013, The Open Cage at The Yard Theatre, and Just So, also at Tête à Tête in 2012.
His arrangement of Tosca, jointly commissioned by Malmö Opera and OperaUpClose, has toured Sweden and the UK and is currently playing at the Soho Theatre in London. Other arrangements include Holst's The Wandering Scholar and Purcell's What Power Art Thou for Opera Les Fauves, and Madama Butterfly and Pagliacci for OperaUpClose, which garnered critical acclaim and led to a nomination for an Arts Foundation Award in Opera Composition in 2010.
Danyal also plays the viola, violin and piano, and works extensively in theatre, composing, recording and performing as an M.D. in London. Most recently, he worked on TARA Arts's The Miser and Dick Whittington.
He has arranged and recorded strings for a host of bands and songwriters. One of his arrangements (for The Tan Yard Side) features on Sam Lee's album Ground Of Its Own, which has been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize 2012. He has also made arrangements for Diagrams, Laura Hocking, The Rivers of England and David Mountain, and plays on an occasional basis with The Memory Band, Adam Donen, Khiyo and Beth and the Availables.
He has composed three pieces for Kensington Chamber Orchestra, including two settings of children's poems for their family concerts.
His arrangement of Tosca, jointly commissioned by Malmö Opera and OperaUpClose, has toured Sweden and the UK and is currently playing at the Soho Theatre in London. Other arrangements include Holst's The Wandering Scholar and Purcell's What Power Art Thou for Opera Les Fauves, and Madama Butterfly and Pagliacci for OperaUpClose, which garnered critical acclaim and led to a nomination for an Arts Foundation Award in Opera Composition in 2010.
Danyal also plays the viola, violin and piano, and works extensively in theatre, composing, recording and performing as an M.D. in London. Most recently, he worked on TARA Arts's The Miser and Dick Whittington.
He has arranged and recorded strings for a host of bands and songwriters. One of his arrangements (for The Tan Yard Side) features on Sam Lee's album Ground Of Its Own, which has been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize 2012. He has also made arrangements for Diagrams, Laura Hocking, The Rivers of England and David Mountain, and plays on an occasional basis with The Memory Band, Adam Donen, Khiyo and Beth and the Availables.
He has composed three pieces for Kensington Chamber Orchestra, including two settings of children's poems for their family concerts.
