Hannah Peel

Hannah Peel
Peel in 2013
Peel in 2013
Background information
Birth nameHannah Mary Peel
Born (1985-08-27) 27 August 1985 (age 38)
Craigavon, Northern Ireland
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer-songwriter
  • composer
  • arranger
  • instrumentalist
Instrument(s)
Labels
Websitehannahpeel.com

Hannah Mary Peel (born 27 August 1985) is a Northern Irish Ivor Novello award winning composer, producer and 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 her Emmy nominated score to Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (a special documentary) [1] and the British science fiction TV series on Sky Max The Midwich Cuckoos which won Peel an Ivor Novello award [2] in 2023. 

Peel releases her solo records on her own imprint label, My Own Pleasure Records. This includes her 2021 Mercury Music Prize nominated Fir Wave,[3] Awake But Always Dreaming[4] and Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia.[5]

Hannah Peel has been a regular weekly broadcaster on BBC Radio 3's Night Tracks [6]since 2019. 

Aside from her solo work, Peel has worked with collaborators on projects including orchestrations and conducting for Paul Weller, an album written for the British Paraorchestra,[7] 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.

  1. ^ "Hannah Peel Awards & Nominations". The Emmy Awards. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Winners of The Ivors 2023 announced". 18 May 2023. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  3. ^ Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (22 July 2021). "Mercury prize 2021: first-time nominees dominate shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  4. ^ Carroll, Jim (29 September 2016). "Hannah Peel: Awake But Always Dreaming – Rich, detailed and beguiling". The Irish Times. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
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  6. ^ "Night Tracks". BBC Radio 3 Night Tracks. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  7. ^ Hedderman, Zara (13 April 2022). "Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra - The Unfolding". The Quietus. Retrieved 18 June 2024.