Huw Thomas Watkins was born on 13 July 1976 and is a British composer and pianist.
12 Facts About Huw Watkins
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Huw Watkins then went on to read music at King's College, Cambridge, where he studied composition with Robin Holloway and Alexander Goehr, and completed an MMus in composition at the Royal College of Music, where he studied with Julian Anderson.
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Huw Watkins was awarded the Constant and Kit Lambert Junior Fellowship at the Royal College of Music, where he used to teach composition.
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Huw Watkins is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal College of Music.
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The review in The Times declared that "at 22, Huw Watkins is already a composer to be reckoned with".
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Huw Watkins recorded his Cello Sonata with Paul Watkins for Nimbus Records and premiered Fantasy for viola and piano with Lawrence Power in 2006.
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Huw Watkins has performed and recorded at the Spannungen chamber music festival in Heimbach.
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Huw Watkins' setting for tenor and string quartet of Dylan Thomas' In My Craft or Sullen Art was premiered by Mark Padmore and the Petersen Quartet at the Wigmore Hall in May 2007.
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Huw Watkins has given premieres of works by Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies and Mark-Anthony Turnage.
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Huw Watkins has performed concertos with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra of the Swan as well as being the Britten Sinfonia's pianist.
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Huw Watkins has recorded Thomas Ades' song cycle The Lover in Winter with the countertenor Robin Blaze for EMI Classics, and his recording of contemporary British music for violin and piano with Alexandra Wood was released on Usk in 2005.
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Huw Watkins was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to music.