Danielle (she/her) studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, graduating in 2013 with Distinction from the Master of Music course and winning the Governors’ Recital Prize for Brass.
She has since enjoyed a versatile career exploring a range of creative possibilities for the tuba with Pure Brass Quintet, New Antonine Brass, Sensory Illusions, Blue Boar, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, Ntshuks Bonga’s Ubuntu Series, Red Note Ensemble, Dandelion Jazz Orchestra, The Copper Cats and The Red Hot Rhythm Makers as well as performing in the bands of Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, Ashley Paul, Bella Hardy, Oxbow and as an extra musician with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Royal Scottish National Orchestra. She was selected out of over 500 applicants as one of six successful musicians from around the world to participate in the Chilly Gonzales ‘Gonzervatory 2019’.
Most recently, she has been developing the duo Dopey Monkey with Martin Lee Thomson by completing a joint jazz/improvisation Masters at the Norges musikkhøgskole. She is a founding member of the trio ‘a cellar full of noise’ alongside Tom Poulson and Timothy Cooper. Established by ‘The Night With…’ the trio released their debut album ‘looking out | looking up’ in 2022. Danielle enjoys collaborating, composing and improvising as well as exploring voice, text and stories.
She is a recipient of awards from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, Help Musicians UK, Scottish International Educational Trust and the Anglo-Norse Dame Gillian Brown Postgraduate Scholarship.
