Aug: Teaching 2 weeks in the French Pyrenees with Ilse Huizinga & Elly Machtel
April: Daniel's premiere of the composition 'Van de kat, de regen en de drup' for symphony orchestra played by CREA orkest
Feb '18-March '19: Amsterdams Andalusisch Orkest plays a dance performance with ICK
Nov: Manao tour in Rome, Italy
June: Amsterdams Andalusisch Orkest tour in Fez, Morocco with Marouan Hajji
April: Amsterdams Andalusisch Orkest playing on National television 2M
Radio Acoustic tour in Zwitserland
In November Daniel goes to Hungary, to teach music in primary schools & learn about the kodaly method
A project from Aslan Muziekcentrum
Radio Acoustic tour in Zwitserland
In November Daniel goes to a couple of cities in Morocco, to teach music in primary schools.
A project from Aslan Muziekcentrum
Radio Acoustic tour in Zwitserland
In November Daniel goes to Diyarbakir, Turkey, to teach music in primary schools.
A project from Aslan Muziekcentrum
In July Daniel goes to Veracruz, Mexico with Pepe Garcia & Felicia van den End (stichting Sonoro) to do a musical project with includes concerts and workshops for children
Manao is doing a 2 week Tour in Mexico
Daniel is playing in ‘Elize in de Hollandsche Manege’ (musical theater)
July/August Daniel stays in Bombay, India, learning Classical Hindustani Music.
He’s taking ‘Sarangi’ lessons with Pandit Dhruba Ghosh
Manao plays the Heineken Jazz Festival, in Tenerife & Gran Canaria
'Jeroen Kant & ratten in de schuur' participate the semi finals of 'De Grote Prijs van Nederland', category Singer-songwriter
The music of the short film 'Tunes from the West' receives the 'Price for Best Music' during the 48h-festival, Utrecht's Filmfestival
Tour in Greece with Giorgos Tsolis Quintet
Daniel receives the 'Willem Mengelberg Scolarship' to go 2 weeks to New York City. Taking bass lessons with Larry Grenadier, Scott Colley, Ben Street & Thomas Morgan & compostion lessons with Edward Green
Manao plays the WOMAD Festival in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
Tour Manao in La Palma, Canarian Islands
Pilot Wilson participates the qualification round of the 'Grote Prijs van Zuid-Holland'
Daniel's composition 'Seasong' is being played by saxofonist Branford Marsalis & ‘The Royal Conservatory Bigband’
Daniel's composition 'Seasong' is being played on the North Sea Jazz Festival by ‘The Royal Conservatory Bigband’
Supporting role as an acordeonist in the Dutch Movie 'Juliana'
Broopwuk (cabarettrio) participates the semi finals of the Groninger Studenten Cabaretfestival 2000
Popband SallySkunk wins 'de Kunstbende'
Teussink & van Huffelen wins the Audience Award of the 'Grote Prijs van Nederland', category Singer-Songwriter
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Biography
Daniel van Huffelen is born in the year 1981 in Epe, a small village in the middle of Holland. At the age of 13 he takes his first piano lessons and starts playing the guitar, bass guitar, drums & singing by himself. A year later he begins performing in some local pop groups and a big band.
In 1999 he starts studying double bass at the ‘Conservatory of Utrecht’ with Harry Emmery, also enjoying weekly lessons with Bert van den Brink.
Two years later he enters the ‘Royal Conservatory of The Hague’, where his main teachers are Hein van de Geyn & Frans van der Hoeven.
During his second year Daniel decides to do an exchange (Erasmus) in Barcelona at “L´Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya” (ESMUC), where he studies with Horacio Fumero, Albert Bover & Jonathan Camps. After this fertile period he stays a year more to experience Barcelona’s musical life.
In September 2007 Daniel graduates his study 'Double Bass Jazz' at the ‘Royal Conservatory of The Hague’ and continues a ‘Master in Composition’, for which 2 years later he receives his diploma.
Autumn 2009 Daniel gets a scholarship to go to New York and take double bass & composition lessons with the bassists Larry Grenadier, Scott Colley, Ben Street, Thomas Morgan & the composer Edward Green.
In 2010 Daniel moves to Amsterdam to enlarge his musical circle and he starts teaching music in an elementary school and playing in new different groups.
In 2013 he goes for 2 months to Mumbai, India, to study Hindustani classical music with Dhruba Ghosh. Taking lessons on sarangi, an Indian bowed string instrument.
During 2013 & 2020 Daniel goes to Mexico, Turkey, Morocco, Italy, France & Hungary to perform and give workshops.
Recently Daniel is playing in various groups such as 'Amsterdams Andalusisch Orkest', 'BombaNaranja', 'Balcony Players', 'Radio Acoustic' , ‘Baragan’ sand much more...
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