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Birth name | Hannah Mary Peel |
Born | Craigavon, Northern Ireland | 27 August 1985
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Hannah Mary Peel (born 27 August 1985) is a Northern Irish Ivor Novello award winning composer, producer and broadcaster. Her solo music is primarily electronic, synthesiser-based and often includes classical scoring and sound design, with references to the links between science, nature and music. She has scored music for television, film, theatre and dance. Including her Emmy nominated score to Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (a special documentary) [1] and the British science fiction TV series on Sky Max The Midwich Cuckoos which won Peel an Ivor Novello award [2] in 2023.
Peel releases her solo records on her own imprint label, My Own Pleasure Records. This includes her 2021 Mercury Music Prize nominated Fir Wave [3] , Awake But Always Dreaming [4] and Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia. [5]
Hannah Peel has been a regular weekly broadcaster on BBC Radio 3's Night Tracks [6] since 2019.
Aside from her solo work, Peel has worked with collaborators on projects including orchestrations and conducting for Paul Weller, an album written for the British Paraorchestra [7] , an album with the poet Will Burns, and as a member of the psychogeography indie rock group The Magnetic North and the electronic music group John Foxx and the Maths.
Peel was born in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, on 27 August 1985. [8] When she was eight years old, her family moved to Barnsley in South Yorkshire. [9] Her father was an amateur folk musician, and she joined him in musical gatherings, including holidays in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. [5] She enrolled in the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts at age 18. There, she studied violin, trombone and piano. [8]
In 2018, Peel arranged strings and woodwind for Paul Weller's 2018 album True Meanings . Following the release, Peel orchestrated and conducted a small orchestra for his 2019 live album Other Aspects: Live at the Royal Festival Hall which featured songs from True Meanings, The Jam, Style Council and Weller's solo material. She has also orchestrated his record, On Sunset and the album Fat Pop .[ citation needed ]
In 2013, Peel won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Title Music for "Chloe", which had been featured in the British television series Dates . The track was individually adapted and rescored for each episode of the series. In February 2014, Peel released the EP Fabricstate which includes "Chloe". The artwork for the EP was created by Karborn and designed by Jonathan Barnbrook.
In 2016, Peel composed the music for Alzheimers Research UK's television and online Christmas campaign, entitled Santa Forgot, and made in collaboration with Aardman Animations.[ citation needed ]
In 2018, Peel composed the title music to the BBC drama The A List produced by Kindle Entertainment. She also wrote the title music and composed additional scores for the Channel 4/Netflix series Kiss Me First .
In 2019, Peel scored her first feature-length film score to the documentary Game of Thrones: The Last Watch in which she was nominated for a Television Academy Emmy Award.
In 2020, Peel scored the soundtrack to the BAFTA-nominated BBC 2 documentary Lee Miller: A Life on the Frontline.
In 2020, Peel scored the soundtrack for the Channel 5 drama The Deceived written by Lisa McGee. [10]
In 2023, Peel won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Television Soundtrack. [11]
In 2012, Peel co-composed the music for the Sadler's Wells Theatre production Compass, working alongside filmmaker and visual artist Tal Rosner and collaborating with choreographers from the Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Company, the Pina Bausch Company, and Jasmin Vardimon.[ citation needed ] In 2018, Peel was featured on BBC Radio 4 as part of their portrait series. [12]
In 2018, Peel composed a score featuring synths, live percussion and drums for a new, theatrical adaptation of Brighton Rock by the Pilot Theatre Company. The production toured the UK between February and May 2018. Also in that year, working primarily on music box, Peel created several hand-punched pieces of music for the score to TeZukA about the life of manga artist Osamu Tezuka by the choreographer and dancer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.
Since 2019, Peel has been a weekly presenter on the BBC Radio 3 show Night Tracks. [9] In 2018, she was a featured guest Radio presenter for five weeks on BBC 6 Music, filling in for Elbow's Guy Garvey, she has also presented specialist music series for BBC Radio Ulster.[ citation needed ]
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2010 | Rebox |
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2013 | Nailhouse |
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2014 | Fabricstate |
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2015 | Rebox 2 |
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with Philippe Cohen Solal and Mike Lindsay (Tunng)
Yr | Release title | Artist(s) | Notes, role |
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2004 | The Fake Death Experience | 28 Costumes | Brass |
2006 | Smile... It Confuses People | Sandi Thom | Trombone, violin |
2010 | Let the Hard Times Roll | David Ford | Trombone, Violin |
History of Modern | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Organ, vocals (background) | |
Fire Like This | Blood Red Shoes | Violin | |
In Modern History | Jim Moray | Vocals on "Jenny of the Moor" | |
2011 | Last Days of Meaning | Nitin Sawhney | Vocals and the remix (rebox) |
2013 | Charge | David Ford | Violin |
2014 | Closing Time | Erland and the Carnival | Writer |
Morning | Rhodes | Trombone, violin | |
Home | |||
2015 | Wishes | ||
Culture of Volume | East India Youth | Violin, string arrangements | |
2016 | "Diagram Girl" | Beyond the Wizards Sleeve | Vocals |
"Creation" | Vocals | ||
"The Soft Bounce" | Vocals | ||
2018 | LUMP | LUMP | Trombone |
2017 | A Kind Revolution (deluxe edition) | Paul Weller | Strings on Remix "Wo See Mama" |
2018 | True Meanings | String Arrangements/Conducting/Performer | |
2019 | Other Aspects: Live at The Royal Festival Hall | Orchestral Arrangements/Conducting/Performer [15] | |
2020 | On Sunset | Orchestral Arrangements/Conducting | |
2021 | Fat Pop | Orchestral Arrangements/Conducting |
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