Daniel Thompson (7)

Daniel was born in Norfolk, England and since 2005 currently resides in Hackney, 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 London improvising music scene and has also played at many other venues across the UK and Europe. As well as being a musician Daniel has been organising concerts since 2007 and currently curates the monthly ‘Foley Street improvised music concert series' which takes place above a pub in London’s west end.

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 have seen Daniel performing and or recording with Neil Metcalfe, Steve Noble, Evan Parker, Caroline Kraabel,Tom Jackson, Hannah Marshall, Adam Bohman, Alex Ward, Kay Grant, Mark Sanders, John Edwards, Benedict Taylor, Lauri Hyvärinen, Roland Ramanan, Simon Rose, Adrian Northover, Marcello Magliocchi, Javier Carmona, Anton Mobin, 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.