Hannah Mary Peel was born on 27 August 1985 and is a British artist, music producer, Mercury Music Prize and Emmy-nominated composer and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster.
22 Facts About Hannah Peel
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Hannah Peel has scored music for television, film, theatre and dance, including Game of Thrones: The Last Watch.
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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.
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Hannah Peel has released solo records on her own imprint label, My Own Pleasure Records, including Fir Wave, Awake But Always Dreaming and Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia.
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Hannah Peel was born in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, on 27 August 1985.
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Hannah Peel's father was an amateur folk musician, and she joined him in musical gatherings, including holidays in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland.
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Hannah Peel enrolled in the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts at age 18.
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In 2018, Hannah Peel met Paul Weller through producer and co-songwriter Gawain Erland Cooper.
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Hannah Peel arranged strings and woodwind for his 2018 album True Meanings.
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Hannah Peel has orchestrated his record, On Sunset and the album Fat Pop.
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In 2013, Hannah Peel won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Title Music for "Chloe", which had been featured in the British television series Dates.
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In February 2014, Hannah Peel released the EP Fabricstate which includes "Chloe".
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In 2016, Hannah Peel composed the music for Alzheimers Research UK's television and online Christmas campaign, entitled Santa Forgot, and made in collaboration with Aardman Animations.
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In 2018, Hannah Peel composed the title music to the BBC drama The A List produced by Kindle Entertainment.
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In 2019, Hannah Peel scored her first feature-length film score to the documentary Game of Thrones: The Last Watch in which she was nominated for a Television Academy Emmy Award.
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In 2020, Hannah Peel scored the soundtrack to the BAFTA-nominated BBC 2 documentary Lee Miller: A Life on the Frontline.
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In 2020, Hannah Peel scored the soundtrack for the Channel 5 drama The Deceived written by Lisa McGee.
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In 2012, Hannah 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.
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In 2018, Hannah Peel was featured on BBC Radio 4 as part of their portrait series.
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In 2018, Hannah Peel composed a score featuring synths, live percussion and drums for a new, theatrical adaptation of Brighton Rock by the Pilot Theatre Company.
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Also in that year, working primarily on music box, Hannah 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.
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Since 2019, Hannah Peel has been a weekly presenter on the BBC Radio 3 show Night Tracks.