Dani Howard is a British composer originally from Hong Kong, where she attended the South Island School.

In 2017, she was selected by ClassicFM to write a new work celebrating the 25th anniversary of the classical music radio station. Written for orchestra, her piece 'Argentum' was premiered by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in September 2017.

Her works have been released on NonClassical, Listenponyand TYXart record labels, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC 4, ClassicFM and RTHK.

Her opera The Yellow Wallpaper, based on the 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, with libretto by Joseph Spence, premiered in August 2023 at the Copenhagen Opera Festival.