Daniel Hyde

Daniel Hyde
Associate Director – Charles Wood Singers

Daniel Hyde is Informator Choristarum, Organist and Tutorial Fellow in Music at Magdalen College, Oxford; having held this position since April 2009, he is also a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Music. At Magdalen, he is responsible for the training of the renowned Choir of Men and Boys which sings  seven services a week during term time and pursues a busy schedule of tours and concerts as well as recording for Harmonia Mundi.

Before moving to Oxford, Daniel enjoyed five enormously rewarding years as Director of Chapel Music at Jesus College, Cambridge. As a student, he graduated from King's College, Cambridge, with First Class Honours in Music, having held the Organ Scholarship for three years. As an organist he won second prize and the audience prize in the RCO Performer of the Year 2002, playing the Guilmant Symphony for Organ and Orchestra with the BBC Philharmonic. Recent and forthcoming recitals have included Gloucester, Durham and Derby Cathedrals, Huddersfield Town Hall and Westminster Abbey. His recording of the Hindemith Concerto with the Britten Sinfonia has received rave reviews. As an accompanist he has appeared regularly with the BBC Singers on Radio Three and at the BBC Proms.