Gareth Huw Davies
Double & Electric BassGareth is a London based double and electric bass player. He also works professionally as a recording engineer, producer, and music theatre keyboard programmer.
Typical work includes Pop, TV, sessions, West End Theatre, Jazz, Big Band, and occasionally classical crossover.
He has performed all over the world, but of course mainly finds himself in concert halls, theatres and jazz venues in the UK, from Ronnie Scotts to the Latitude Festival, and the Barbican to Canterbury Cathedral.
He does occasional corporate, INSET and workshop education for the Wigmore Hall and others, and is Assistant Director of the Canford (now Sherborne) Summer School of Music.
He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Jazz and Studio Music from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Recent performances include:
- Graham Coxon
- Sir Willard White
- Will Todd
- The Ian Macmillan Orchestra
- Mark Eitzel
- Matt Ford
- Charlie Dore
- Molly Nyman
- Syd Lawrence Orchestra
- Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Session work includes: forty-something shows of ‘Noson Lawen’ (S4C primetime live music), Radios 1 2 and 3 live broadcasts most recently Evensong from St Martins in the Fields, the Bob Harris Show, Friday Night is Music Night, and the BBC Radio Wales Christmas Special
West End: Lion King, Billy Elliot, Legally Blonde, Les Miserables
Recording engineering and production has been recently focussed on a series of discs with Will Todd, but also features numerous other musicians and projects (including running a commercial studio for four years), and designing studio systems for schools and colleagues
Programming work includes all keyboard chairs for Evita (international tour), Cabaret, Joseph, Whistle Down the Wind and Scrooge national tours for Bill Kenwright Limited, Associate on the Legally Blonde UK Tour, South Pacific, Cinderella at The Curve Theatre Leicester, Just So Stories, and the Screams of Kitty Genovese at the Edinburgh Festival.