Hannah Kendall
Hannah Kendall (born 1984 in London) is a British composer of British/Caribbean heritage.
Background and education
Born in London, Hannah Kendall gained a First Class Honours in Music from the University of Exeter where she studied composition with Joe Duddell. She has subsequently completed with Distinction both a Masters in Advanced Composition from the Royal College of Music, studying with Kenneth Hesketh, and a Masters in Arts Management from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.[1]
In 2015, Kendall was noted as one of the "brilliant female composers under the age of 35".[2] She featured on BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week.[3] 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.[4]
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, will be premiered in 2016.[5][6]
Kendall is Awards Director of London Music Masters.[7]
In 2015 Kendall won a 'Women of the Future Award' in the Arts and Culture category.[8]
Selected works
Orchestral and large ensemble works
- Kanashibari for chamber orchestra, inspired by the experience of sleep paralysis
- The Great Dark for large ensemble
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
- 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
References
- ↑ "Biography". Hannah Kendall homepage. 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.
- ↑ "Hannah Kendall". Funding New Music. PRS for Music Foundation. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ↑ "The Knife of Dawn". Hannah Kendall homepage. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ↑ "LMM Team". London Music Masters. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ↑ "Women of the Future". Women of the Future. Retrieved 11 June 2016.