Hannah Kendall
Hannah Kendall (born 1984 in London) is a British composer currently based in New York.[1]
Background and career
Kendall grew up in
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
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
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]
Selected works
Orchestral and large ensemble works
- Citygates (2011) (large ensemble)
- Shard (2012)
- Kanashibari (2013) (inspired by the experience of sleep paralysis)
- The Great Dark (2013) (large ensemble)
- The Spark Catchers (2017)
- Baptistry (2018)
- Disillusioned Dreamer (2018)
- Verdala (2018) (large ensemble)
- weaves flowers and leaves (2019)
- Nexus (2020)
- Tuxedo: Vasco 'de' Gama (2020)
Chamber and solo works
- Incident (text by Fleur Adcock) for soprano and piano
- Labyrinthine for two violins and two violas
- On the Chequer'd Field Array'd for piano
- Processional for piano
- The Unreturning (text by Wilfred Owen) for tenor and mixed ensemble
Choral works
- Fundamental (text by Rick Holland) for chorus and brass quintet
- Regina Caeli for a cappella chorus
Operas
- The Knife of Dawn (text by Tessa McWatt) for solo baritone, 2 sopranos, alto, violin, viola, cello and harp
References
- ^ ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ "Biography". Hannah Kendall homepage. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ^ "'You can't be a composer, you're a girl'. Radio 3 fights back". Telegraph. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ "Composer of the Week". BBC. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ^ "Women composers: genius is gender blind – and so should we be". The Guardian. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ "Women of the Future". Women of the Future. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ "Hannah Kendall". Funding New Music. PRS for Music Foundation. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ^ "The Knife of Dawn". Hannah Kendall homepage. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ^ a b NMC Recordings: Hannah Kendall
- ^ BBC Proms, 28 August 2020, Programme notes
- ^ NDR. "SHMF: Komponistin Hannah Kendall erhält Hindemith-Preis". www.ndr.de (in German). Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ Taylor, Mark (18 October 2023). "Nominees announced for The Ivors Classical Awards 2024". The Ivors Academy. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ Taylor, Mark (14 November 2023). "Winners of The Ivors Classical Awards 2023 announced". The Ivors Academy. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
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