Born in Abergavenny and raised in Rhymney in the valleys of South Wales, Daniel effectively started his musical association with brass bands when he signed up for peripatetic brass lessons in Blaenau Gwent at Abertillery Comprehensive. His first band was the now reformed Ebbw Vale Town Band, a local fourth-section band that regularly came recruiting into local schools. In 2009, Dan successfully auditioned for the National Youth Brass Band of Wales and worked with such distinguished musicians as Stephen Cobb, Nicholas Childs, and Edward Gregson.

In 2010, he won the local Caerphilly Young Musician of The Year competition, beating 140 musicians from schools throughout South Wales. 2010 was also the year that Daniel joined the Cory Band, spending a fulfilling year in the band before sadly leaving due to academic commitments. He transferred to play for local rivals Tredegar, and is very proud to have participated in the band’s British Open win of 2013, achieving the Best Euphonium prize on this memorable day.

Following another spell with the Cory Band, he moved to Manchester to study at the Royal Northern College of Music. He joined the Black Dyke Band, taking over from Ian Yates as the band’s second euphonium. He became Black Dyke’s Solo Euphonium in December 2016, occupying the seat previously held by many of his playing idols. In 2017, Daniel won the Best Instrumentalist prize at the Yorkshire Regional Championships, and in 2019, he was awarded the Geoff Whitham award as the outstanding euphonium player at the British Open Championships.

In 2020, Daniel graduated from the RNCM with a Distinction in his Master’s degree.

2023 saw Daniel leave Black Dyke to pursue a different career and a relocation led him to re-join the Cory Band for a short spell. Dan joined the Flowers Band in January of 2024. In 2024 Dan was awarded the ‘Most Outstanding Player’ award at the National Finals, an achievement he is very proud of.

Originally from Taiwan, Nina started playing the euphonium at the age of 8 in her home city of Taichung. In 2022, she completed her bachelor’s degree studying Music at Taipei National University of the Arts, under Tzu-Hsiang Lin. After relocating to the UK to study for a Masters of Music in Instrumental Performance at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (RBC), under Chris Robertson; she has been bestowed several prestigious accolades including becoming a 2022 Boise Scholar and the winner of RBC Brass Prize 2023.

Having previously played with Golden Hymn Brass band in Taiwan, Nina started her British brass band journey as the principal euphonium of the Amersham Band. After joining the Flowers Band in June 2023, she made her contesting debut with the band at the 2023 British Open.

Elliot hails from Caerphilly, in South Wales, where he started learning the baritone at the age of 11 with the BTM learner band. It was during these formative years at BTM that Elliot found his passion for music, and moved up to join the BTM Senior Band on 2nd baritone two years later.

After some considerable improvement thanks to his time at BTM, Elliot found himself in the very fortunate position of being offered the Solo Baritone position at the City of Cardiff (M1) band at 14 years old. Elliot enjoyed numerous contest successes with the band, most notably; best baritone at Wychavon Festival of Brass, and a qualification for the National Finals at The Royal Albert Hall.

At 17 Elliot was asked to join the Tredegar Town Band on Solo Baritone, a move that provided a plethora of opportunities from competing at every major competition to recording with world class soloists.

Elliot is currently a student at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama under the masterful teaching of Dr. Robert Childs and Owen Farr. In addition to his playing, Elliot made his conducting debut at The 2025 Welsh Regional Championships leading the Burry Port Town Band to their best result since 2019. Elliot is delighted to be joining the Flowers Band and looks forward to making his contest debut with the band at The British Open 2025.

Tim comes from a Salvation Army family where everyone was encouraged to play brass instruments. Realising very early on he could not get a note from a cornet Tim moved to tenor horn in a small young people’s band that included Dudley Bright, David Daws, Julian Bright and Matt Baker. At age 21 Tim was appointed as principal horn in the International Staff Band of the Salvation Army, a position he held for over 15 years. During this time he gave premieres of a number of brass band arrangements of classical pieces by Weber, Strauss and Schumann originally written for the French horn. Also at this time he had the role of Bandmaster of the Staines Band of the Salvation Army, a position held for over 25 years during which three CD recordings were made.

In more recent years Tim has moved to the dark side of the Baritone and Euphonium section, and been a member of Egon Virtuosi Brass, Staines Town Band, Wantage and Woodfalls bands. He is now a committed member of the Baritone fraternity and hugely enjoying the challenge and excitement of being a part of the Flowers band.

Apart from brass bands Tim’s other obsessions are coffee, chocolate and two dogs – Dave the miniature long haired Dachsund and Murphy the dopey Lurcher.