Hailing from the New Forest, Samuel is now based in the South West, and has built a thriving portfolio career of performing, teaching, conducting, examining, arranging, recording and accompanying. 

Daphna moved to Bristol few years ago from Cambridge where she was teaching and performing manly in London. She studied and graduated with a degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York, USA in classical double bass performance. Currently she performs both as classical and Jazz double bass player.

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 Daphna  has been leading her own projects, performing at the Southbank London, Oxford University, Liverpool University, Cambridge University and toured in Europe, USA, Asia and South Africa. Her music and double bass playing was featured on BBC radio 3, Songlines magazine and the Strad magazine.

Daphna released 5 albums of her music on 33Jazz UK record label and Tzadik label New York. She has received 4 grants to produce music projects and collaborations with national and international artists. 

Her teaching experience includes double bass instruction at the University of Bristol, workshops at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, SOAS University London, King’s College School and St John’s College School Cambridge.