Huw Daniel was a pupil at Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera, South Wales, and an organ scholar at Robinson College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 2001. He then studied the baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music for two years with Simon Standage. In 2004, Huw was a member of EUBO, the members of which formed Harmony of Nations and went on to play together and record two CDs. He was the leader of Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música, Porto 2004-2021, and is now one of the four leaders of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He is a long-standing member of the Dunedin Consort, and has played on many of the Dunedin recordings including the Bach double violin concerto with Cecilia Bernardini. He is also a member of the Irish Baroque Orchestra. As guest-leader he has played and recorded with EUBO, the English Concert, the King’s Consort, the Sixteen, and Barokkanerne Oslo. Huw plays a violin by Jacob Stainer, 1665.