Gareth
Huw
Davies

Musician

Current projects and gigs:

Will Todd Trio and Ensemble (Mass in Blue, Passion Music) (multiple projects as bassist, producer and recording engineer).
Richard Durrant, The Burning Deck, Orchestra, Love Song For Europe.
Noson Lawen house band (S4C long running live music TV show) Bryn Terfel, Gethin a Glesni, Cat Southall, Lloyd Macey, Llinos Haf Jones, Elin Fflur and Billy Thompson amongst many over 15 years.
For Tonight (a new musical about tolerance in Wales).
Charlie Dore (many albums and gigs).
Miel de Botton, supporting Simply Red.
Matilda (West End).
ROC.
Paradolia (Gareth’s Jazz Trio project).
Tristar artists (various, including Kevin Sim).
Sam Swallow.
Tony Blackburn ‘Sounds of the Sixties Live’.
Stealing Dan and Don (Steely Dan).
Lowri Evans (on Bob Harris and Noson Lawen).
St Martin’s Voices (St Martin’s in the Fields).
BBC (most recently the Ascension Day service and Songs of Praise).

Other artists Gareth has worked with include:

Graham Coxon (and here), Sir Willard White, the Tootsie Rollers, Michael Nyman/Orchestra of the Royal Opera House (DGV), and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales; long term projects include various UK and European album sessions tours and gigs with Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), Brian Protheroe (Pinball), and Sam Swallow (The 1975 and The Hoosiers) – plus on cello he has worked with Echo and the Bunnymen (Later with Jools Holland, and featured on the album The Stars, the Oceans & the Moon), on recordings with Chrissie Hynde and Simple Minds, and on numerous tracks for Tristar (with Kevin Simm et al).

His music theatre credits (just in the West End) include:
Footloose (chair holder), the Lion King, Legally Blonde, Billy Elliot, 9 to 5, Little Shop of Horrors, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Spamalot, The Producers, Matilda, 42nd Street, Young Frankenstein, Chicago, My One and Only, Cabaret, My Fair Lady, and others. He was also deputy MD for the 2022 tour of Footloose.

Over roughly thirty years as a professional musician, Gareth has worked with countless other musicians and artists on one off gigs, projects, recordings, broadcasts, theatre performances, big band outings - a few names from these enjoyable encounters include Hannah Waddingham, Jim Mullen, Jess Gillam, the London Horns, Theo Travis, Gary Husband, BBC Religious Programming, BBC Radio Wales Christmas Special, The Sid Lawrence Orchestra, Julian Littman, Simon Lee, Ruthie Henshall, RWCMD Music Theatre, Janie Dee, Gareth Williams, Sally Burgess, Glastonbury Festival, The Ian Macmillan Orchestra, Tommy Steele, The Glen Miller Orchestra (UK), Friday Night is Music Night, ITV, Mary Ann Hobbs, John Peel, Stuart Maconie, Matt Skelton, Jim Watson, Nina Nastasia, Reading Festival, Mike Gorman, Asaf Sirkis, Latitude Festival, Nigel Price, David Simpatico, Sally Creedon, Matt Ford, the Cardiff International Festival of Music Theatre, the Beardy Festival, and Hank Crawford.

He has co-lead workshops and educational projects for the Wigmore Hall, The London Business School, Unilever, Trinity College of Music, Sherborne School, The Daily Telegraph Jazz Competition, plus a variety of others for adults and young people, often with performances. He was Director of the CSSM Summer School of Music for 6 years following over 20 years as Assistant Director of CSSM and the Canford (now Sherborne) Summer School of Music.