Hannah Kendall

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Hannah Kendall (born 1984 in London) is a British composer currently based in New York. [1]

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Background and career

Kendall grew up in Wembley, where her mother is the head teacher in a primary school. [1] One of two children, her parents are originally from Guyana. Her grandfather was a jazz musician and her family stimulated her interest in the creative arts. [1] Kendall attended the University of Exeter where she majored in vocal studies and composition, studying with Joe Duddell. She also gained a Masters at the Royal College of Music, studying with Kenneth Hesketh, as well as arts management at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. [2]

In 2015, Kendall was noted as one of the "brilliant female composers under the age of 35". [3] She featured on BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week . [4] All five composers of the week were women and this was part of Radio 3's International Women's Day celebrations, which were highlighted in The Guardian. [5] Also in 2015 Kendall won a 'Women of the Future Award' in the Arts and Culture category. [6]

Her one-man chamber opera The Knife of Dawn, with a libretto by Tessa McWatt and based on the incarceration of political activist Martin Carter in the then British Guiana in 1953 was premiered in 2016 at the Roundhouse. [7] [8]

Her piece The Spark Catchers premiered at the BBC Proms in August 2017 and is inspired by the work of poet Lemn Sissay. [1] The performance was released on CD by NMC in January 2020. [9] Kendall returned to the Proms for the delayed first night of live music (due to the pandemic) on 28 August 2020 with the world premiere of Tuxedo: Vasco 'de' Gama for orchestra, inspired by the work of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. [10]

Kendall received the 2022 Hindemith Prize for music composition which is awarded to outstanding composers as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. [11]

Kendall has worked for both the Barbican and London Music Masters charity in arts management roles. [1] She is currently on the DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) programme at Columbia University in New York as Dean's Fellow. [9]

Kendall received two Ivor Novello Award nominations at The Ivors Classical Awards 2023. Even sweetness can scratch the throat, for chamber ensemble was nominated for Best Chamber Ensemble Composition and Shouting forever into the receiver, for 17 players, was nominated for Best Large Ensemble Composition. [12] Shouting forever into the receiver went on to win the Ivor Novello Award for Best Large Ensemble Composition. [13]

Kendall received an Ivor Novello Award nomination at The Ivors Classical Awards 2024. Tuxedo: Dust Bowl #3 for massed ensemble of harmonicas and optional SATB voices was nominated for Best Community and Participation Composition. [14]

Selected works

Orchestral and large ensemble works

Chamber and solo works

Choral works

Operas

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Maddocks, Fiona (20 August 2017). "Hannah Kendall: 'I'm a millennial composer! I have to make money to survive'". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "Biography". Hannah Kendall homepage. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "'You can't be a composer, you're a girl'. Radio 3 fights back". Telegraph. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "Composer of the Week". BBC. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "Women composers: genius is gender blind – and so should we be". The Guardian . 5 March 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  6. ↑ "Women of the Future". Women of the Future. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  7. ↑ "Hannah Kendall". Funding New Music. PRS for Music Foundation. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  8. ↑ "The Knife of Dawn". Hannah Kendall homepage. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  9. 1 2 NMC Recordings: Hannah Kendall
  10. ↑ BBC Proms, 28 August 2020, Programme notes
  11. ↑ NDR. "SHMF: Komponistin Hannah Kendall erhält Hindemith-Preis". www.ndr.de (in German). Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  12. ↑ Taylor, Mark (18 October 2023). "Nominees announced for The Ivors Classical Awards 2024". The Ivors Academy. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  13. ↑ Taylor, Mark (14 November 2023). "Winners of The Ivors Classical Awards 2023 announced". The Ivors Academy. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  14. ↑ Taylor, Mark (15 October 2024). "Nominations for The Ivors Classical Awards 2024 announced". The Ivors Academy. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
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