Daniel Fardon

Daniel Fardon (born 1991) is a British composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Fardon studied Music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where his composition teachers included Howard Skempton and Errollyn Wallen. He studied conducting under Edwin Roxburgh. Fardon went on to study for an MPhil in Composition at the University of Cambridge, where he was tutored by Professor Richard Causton. In 2018, he graduated with a PhD in Composition on the topic of tonality from the University of Birmingham, under the supervision of Professor Michael Zev Gordon. Fardon was the Rosie Johnson Apprentice Composer at the Wigmore Hall during 2018-19. In 2018 he won the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, and in 2020 he received an Ivor Novello Award for his music. Fardon is the Artistic Director of Hackney Music Live, a charity which organises concerts in the London Borough of Hackney. He teaches at the Purcell School for Young Musicians. Music Fardon’s early commissions included Three Short Pieces for the Stratford-on-Avon music festival in 2012, and a piano work for Flatpack Film Festival in 2013. His piece Freundschaftsbeziehungen was commissioned by the King’s Lynn Festiv