Hannah Peel

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Hannah Peel
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Peel in 2013
Background information
Birth nameHannah Mary Peel
Born (1985-08-27) 27 August 1985 (age 38)
Craigavon, Northern Ireland
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer-songwriter
  • composer
  • arranger
  • instrumentalist
Instrument(s)
Labels
Website hannahpeel.com

Hannah Mary Peel (born 27 August 1985) is a British singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and composer. 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 Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (a special documentary).[ citation needed ]

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Apart from her solo work, Peel has worked with collaborators on projects including orchestrations and conducting for Paul Weller, 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.[ citation needed ]

She has released solo records on her own imprint label, My Own Pleasure Records, including Fir Wave, Awake But Always Dreaming [1] and Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia. [2]

Early life

Peel was born in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, on 27 August 1985. [3] When she was eight years old, her family moved to Barnsley in South Yorkshire. [4] Her father was an amateur folk musician, and she joined him in musical gatherings, including holidays in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. [2] She enrolled in the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts at age 18. There, she studied violin, trombone and piano. [3]

Music career

Performer/orchestral arranger/session musician

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 ]

TV and film scores

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 [ citation needed ] 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. [5]

In 2023, Peel won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Television Soundtrack. [6]

Theatre and dance

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. [7]

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.

Radio presenter

Since 2019, Peel has been a weekly presenter on the BBC Radio 3 show Night Tracks. [4] 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 ]

Discography

Albums

Solo

  • 2011: The Broken Wave [8] (Static Caravan)
  • 2016: Awake but Always Dreaming (My Own Pleasure)
  • 2017: Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia (My Own Pleasure)
  • 2018: Particles in Space (My Own Pleasure)
  • 2019: Chalk Hill Blue (Rivertones)
  • 2019: Game Of Thrones: The Last Watch (HBO)
  • 2020: The Deceived (Silva Screen Records)
  • 2021: Fir Wave (My Own Pleasure)
  • 2022: The Midwich Cuckoos [9] (Invada Records)

With The Magnetic North

  • 2012: Orkney: Symphony of The Magnetic North (Full Time Hobby)
  • 2016: Prospect of Skelmersdale (Full Time Hobby)

With John Foxx and the Maths

With Philippe Cohen Solal and Mike Lindsay (Tunng)

  • 2021: Outsider (Ya Basta! Records)

With Beyond the Wizards Sleeve

Solo EPs

YearTitleDetails
2010Rebox
  • Released: 8 February 2010
  • Label: Static Caravan
  • Format: CD, digital, vinyl
2013Nailhouse
  • Released: 22 April 2013
  • Label: Mitcham Submarine
  • Format: digital, white 7" vinyl
2014Fabricstate
  • Released: 24 February 2014
  • Label: My Own Pleasure
  • Format: digital, red 10" vinyl
2015Rebox 2
  • Released: 20 July 2015
  • Label: My Own Pleasure
  • Format: digital, CD

EPs

with Philippe Cohen Solal and Mike Lindsay (Tunng)

Performance / writing credits

YrRelease titleArtist(s)Notes, role
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"
2011Last Days of Meaning Nitin Sawhney Vocals and the remix (rebox)
2013 Charge David Ford Violin
2014Closing 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
2018LUMPLUMPTrombone
2017A Kind Revolution (deluxe edition) Paul Weller Strings on Remix "Wo See Mama"
2018 True Meanings String Arrangements/Conducting/Performer
2019Other Aspects: Live at The Royal Festival HallOrchestral Arrangements/Conducting/Performer [10]
2020 On Sunset Orchestral Arrangements/Conducting
2021Fat PopOrchestral Arrangements/Conducting

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