Introduction
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.
In 2015, Kendall was noted as one of the "brilliant female composers under the age of 35". She featured on BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week. 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.
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.
Kendall is Awards Director of London Music Masters.
In 2015 Kendall won a 'Women of the Future Award' in the Arts and Culture category.
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