Hannah Peel

Hannah Peel is a Northern Irish artist, composer, producer and broadcaster. Her solo record career includes the shortlisted 2021 Mercury Music Prize electronic album, Fir Wave; 2016's Awake But Always Dreaming, which became an ode to her grandmother’s mind as she lived with dementia; and the space-themed Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia, scored for synthesisers and a 30 piece colliery brass band. Peel navigates synthesisers, electronics, classical orchestral work, hand punched music boxes and unique sound world compositions for TV and film as well as her own solo albums. Following her Emmy-nominated score for Game Of Thrones: The Last Watch, her soundtrack for TV psychological thriller, The Deceived won a 2022 Royal Television Society NI award and the Music Producer’s Guild "Best UK original Score Recording of 2021”.

A regular collaborator with Paul Weller, she has conducted and scored orchestral arrangements for his shows and live album at London's 'Royal Festival Hall' and contributed arrangements to his no.1 album's On Sunset and Fat Pop. In April 2022 Hannah released a new, critically acclaimed album The Unfolding with Paraorchestra - the world's only disabled and non-disabled integrated orchestra which went straight to No.1 in the UK Classical Charts. This year she composed the music for the National Theatre's stage production of Brian Friel's Dancing At Lughnasa and her score for Sky TV's 7-part series The Midwich Cuckoos has received an Ivor Novello nomination. Hannah is also a regular presenter on the BBC Radio 3 show, Night Tracks. More info: www.hannahpeel.com. Headshot credit: Paul Heartfield.