词条 | Hannah Kendall |
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Background and educationKendall grew up in Wembley, where her mother is the head teacher in a primary school.[1] One of two children, her parents are originally from Guyana. Her grandfather was a jazz musician and her family stimulated the creative arts.[1] Kendall attended the University of Exeter where she majored in vocal studies and composition. She also gained a Masters at the Royal College of Music and studied arts management at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.[2] 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] 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.[6][7] In 2015 Kendall won a 'Women of the Future Award' in the Arts and Culture category.[8] Her piece The Spark Catchers premiered at the Proms in August 2017 and is inspired by the work of Lemn Sissay.[1] Kendall has worked for both the Barbican and London Music Masters charity in arts management roles.[1] Selected worksOrchestral and large ensemble works
Chamber and Solo works
Choral works
Operas
References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/aug/20/hannah-kendall-composer-interview-proms-debut-chineke|title=Hannah Kendall: ‘I’m a millennial composer! I have to make money to survive’|last=Maddocks|first=Fiona|date=20 August 2017|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-08-20|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=Biography|url=http://www.hannahkendall.co.uk/biography|website=Hannah Kendall homepage|accessdate=1 April 2015|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402154901/http://www.hannahkendall.co.uk/biography|archivedate=2 April 2015|df=}} 3. ^{{cite web|title='You can’t be a composer, you’re a girl'. Radio 3 fights back|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-business/11461185/BBC-Radio-3-composer-of-the-week-Meet-the-young-women-fighting-back.html|publisher=Telegraph|date=10 March 2015|accessdate=11 June 2016}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=Composer of the Week|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b053lc6n|publisher=BBC|accessdate=1 April 2015}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Women composers: genius is gender blind – and so should we be|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/mar/05/women-composers-genius-radio-3-international-womens-day|publisher=The Guardian|date=5 March 2015|accessdate=11 June 2016}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Hannah Kendall|url=http://www.prsformusicfoundation.com/Grantees/Hannah-Kendall|website=Funding New Music|publisher=PRS for Music Foundation|accessdate=1 April 2015}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=The Knife of Dawn|url=http://www.hannahkendall.co.uk/the-knife-of-dawn|website=Hannah Kendall homepage|accessdate=1 April 2015}} 8. ^{{cite web|title=Women of the Future|url=http://awards.womenofthefuture.co.uk/2015-shortlist/|publisher=Women of the Future|accessdate=11 June 2016}} External links
8 : 1984 births|Living people|Female classical composers|British classical composers|Alumni of the University of Exeter|Alumni of the Royal College of Music|Musicians from London|21st-century women musicians |
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