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Hannah Mary Peel (born 27 August 1985) is a British artist, music producer, Mercury Music Prize and Emmy-nominated composer and BBC Radio 3 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 Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (a special documentary).^{[citation needed]}

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Hannah Peel
Peel in 2012 (age 27).
Background information
Birth name	Hannah Mary Peel
Born	(1985-08-27) 27 August 1985 (age 37) Craigavon, Northern Ireland
Genres	Classical Electronic Indie pop synth-pop
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter composer arranger instrumentalist
Instrument(s)	Vocals music box Synthesiser violin trombone
Labels	My Own Pleasure Realworld Records Domino Static Caravan Full Time Hobby Rivertones Mute Song
Website	hannahpeel.com

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 met Paul Weller through producer and co-songwriter Gawain Erland Cooper. She arranged strings and woodwind for his 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]

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.[6]

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[7] (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[8] (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

• 2013: Rhapsody (Metamatic Records)
• 2020: Howl (Metamatic Records)

With Philippe Cohen Solal and Mike Lindsay (Tunng)

• 2021: Outsider (Ya Basta! Records)

With Beyond the Wizards Sleeve

• 2016: The Soft Bounce (Phantasy)

Solo EPs

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

EPs

with Philippe Cohen Solal and Mike Lindsay (Tunng)

• 2015: Henry J. Darger (Ya! Basta Records)

Performance / writing credits

Yr	Release title	Artist(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"
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 [9]
2020	On Sunset		Orchestral Arrangements/Conducting
2021	Fat Pop		Orchestral Arrangements/Conducting

Scores

• 2011: TeZukA by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui – several tracks using hand-punched music
• 2012: Compass (Sadler's Wells Theatre) – Full score
• 2012: Anna Karenina soundtrack – several tracks
• 2013: Dates – title music
• 2016: Santa Forgot – Alzheimer’s Research UK and Aardman Animations – Full score
• 2018: Brighton Rock - Pilot Theatre - Full live theatre score
• 2018: Ice Alive - National Geographic - Full score
• 2018: Kiss Me First – Channel 4 / Netflix – title music and additional scoring
• 2018: The A List – BBC – title music
• 2019: Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (TV Special Documentary) – Full score
• 2019: Cold War Letters - London Calling – BBC 4 - Full score
• 2020: Close - Irish National Opera - Score
• 2020: The Deceived – Channel 5 - Full score
• 2020: Lee Miller: Life On The Frontline – BBC 2 - Full score

References

External links

• Official website

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