Hans Dal trained as a guitarist at the Royal Danish Academy of music in Copenhagen. For many years he has worked as a teacher at the Academy, at the National Drama School and at the Frederiksberg Teacher Training College in 1966-93.
He is best known as the composer of music for a number of films and TV series like Huset ved Havet (The House by the Sea) and Langtidschauffør(The Long-Distance Driver) and several of the "Christmas Calendars" onDanish TV.
Since 1979 Hans Dal has been a member of "De Nordiske Spillemænd" (The Nordic Fiddlers). For many years he has written songs, but writing for a larger orchestra is a relatively new venture. He still swears to music paper and a pencil in his composing work, although he has tried all kinds of computer-controlled music in connection with previous CD recordings.
In the work with the rock symphony he has aimed at a fusion of the instruments of the symphony orchestra with electric instruments, in the form of orchestral songs. The result is a tonal melodious composition. The poem and song of the second movement was written by Eva Weyde and is about a friend who died far too early. Hans Dal has called his symhpony Tide, and the work can be understood as a symphonic poem about great changes in the composer's own life.