Daniel Thompson
Daniel Thompson
Daniel was born in Norfolk, England and since 2005 currently resides in london, other than a couple of years playing violin as a child, his musical studies didn’t seriously begin until his late teens.
Largely self-taught, after moving to London in 2005 Daniel embarked upon a life changing period. He studied with the guitarist John Russell for two years, “which provided me with one of the richest and most rewarding musical experiences of my life” and Daniel also spent many evenings listening to the trio of John Edwards, Tony Marsh and Evan Parker at The Vortex in East London who “collectively confirmed my musical direction”.
Daniel is A part of the fertile improvising music scene and has played at many venues and festivals across the UK and Europe. As well as being a musician Daniel has been organising concerts since 2007 and organised the monthly ‘Foley Street improvised music concert series' in London during the years 2013 and 2016. http://foleystreet.wordpress.com/
As well as performing solo and with other musicians in many ad-hoc improvising situations Daniel also performs in long-term collaborations or “working groups”.
Recent collaborations (both ad-hoc and long-term) have seen Daniel performing and or recording with Neil Metcalfe, Steve Noble, Caroline Kraabel, Tom Jackson, Vid Drasler, Hannah Marshall, Adam Bohman, Alex Ward, John Edwards, Benedict Taylor, Evan Parker, Max Reed, Lauri Hyvärinen, Roland Ramanan, Adrian Northover, Marcello Magliocchi, Javier Carmona, Guillaume Viltard and The London Improvisers Orchestra amongst many others.
Daniel’s recordings can be found on the labels Leo Records, Creative Sources, FMR AND Confront Recordings amongst others. (see Recordings page)
Daniel was born in Norfolk, England and since 2005 currently resides in london, other than a couple of years playing violin as a child, his musical studies didn’t seriously begin until his late teens.
Largely self-taught, after moving to London in 2005 Daniel embarked upon a life changing period. He studied with the guitarist John Russell for two years, “which provided me with one of the richest and most rewarding musical experiences of my life” and Daniel also spent many evenings listening to the trio of John Edwards, Tony Marsh and Evan Parker at The Vortex in East London who “collectively confirmed my musical direction”.
Daniel is A part of the fertile improvising music scene and has played at many venues and festivals across the UK and Europe. As well as being a musician Daniel has been organising concerts since 2007 and organised the monthly ‘Foley Street improvised music concert series' in London during the years 2013 and 2016. http://foleystreet.wordpress.com/
As well as performing solo and with other musicians in many ad-hoc improvising situations Daniel also performs in long-term collaborations or “working groups”.
Recent collaborations (both ad-hoc and long-term) have seen Daniel performing and or recording with Neil Metcalfe, Steve Noble, Caroline Kraabel, Tom Jackson, Vid Drasler, Hannah Marshall, Adam Bohman, Alex Ward, John Edwards, Benedict Taylor, Evan Parker, Max Reed, Lauri Hyvärinen, Roland Ramanan, Adrian Northover, Marcello Magliocchi, Javier Carmona, Guillaume Viltard and The London Improvisers Orchestra amongst many others.
Daniel’s recordings can be found on the labels Leo Records, Creative Sources, FMR AND Confront Recordings amongst others. (see Recordings page)
