Hannah Kendall

Hannah Kendall (born May 1984 in London) is a British composer currently based in New York. Background and career Kendall grew up in Wembley, where her mother is the head teacher in a primary school. Her doctorate was completed at Columbia University in the City of New York with Georg Friedrich Haas and George E. Lewis. Her music is published by Ricordi (Berlin). 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. Also in 2015 Kendall won a ‘Women of the Future Award’ in the Arts and Culture category. 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. Her piece The Spark Catchers premiered at the BBC Proms in August 2017 and is inspired by the work of poet Lemn Sissay. Kendall returned to the Proms for the delayed first night of live music (due to the pandemic) on 28 August 20