Emily Hall is a composer of classical music

Classical music

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, electronica

Electronica

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 and song

Song

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s. Her music has been performed by the Duke Quartet

Duke Quartet

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, the London Symphony Orchestra

London Symphony Orchestra

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, the Brodsky Quartet

Brodsky Quartet

The Brodsky Quartet is a British string quartet, in existence since 1972, though only Ian Belton and Jacqueline Thomas are original members.In addition to performing classical music, and in particular the classic string quartet repertoire of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Bartók and Shostakovich,...

, the London Sinfonietta

London Sinfonietta

The London Sinfonietta is an English chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London. The ensemble specialises in contemporary music and works across a wide range of genres, performing modern classics alongside world premieres, and includes music by electronica artists as well as folk and...

, and the Philharmonia

Philharmonia

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; it has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a national radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and its New Generation...

, BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

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 and France Culture

France Culture

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. Roxanna Panufnik

Roxanna Panufnik

Roxanna Panufnik is a British composer of Polish heritage. She is the daughter of the composer and conductor Sir Andrzej Panufnik....

 said of her (and 21st century female classical composers in general): "Hip young things like Tansy Davies

Tansy Davies

Tansy Davies is a British composer.As a youth, Davies sang and played guitar in a rock band. She developed an interest in composition in her teens, and subsequently began music studies at the Colchester Institute in French horn and composition...

 and Emily Hall will exert a great influence on the new music scene in the next ten years."

Biography

Hall read music at the University of York then studied orchestration with Yan Maresz in Paris. She studied with Julian Anderson

Julian Anderson

Julian Anderson is a British composer and teacher of composition.-Biography:Anderson studied at Westminster School, then with John Lambert at the Royal College of Music, with Alexander Goehr at Cambridge University, privately with Tristan Murail in Paris, and on courses given by Olivier Messiaen,...

 for her Masters in Composition at the Royal College of Music

Royal College of Music

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. She is a founding member of c3, the Camberwell Composers Collective. Hall was the recipient of the 2005 Royal Philharmonic Society

Royal Philharmonic Society

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 Composition Prize .

The world premiere of her opera Sante took place on Wednesday May 24, 2006, co-produced by Aldeburgh Productions and the London Sinfonietta, directed by Tim Supple. It utilised African melody and rhythm.

Vocal music

• Sante (opera): 70 minutes. First performance: Aldeburgh Productions/ London Sinfonietta May 2006 LSO St Luke's
• Song Cycle settings of Toby Litt. First performance: Robert Murray/ Malcom Martineau June 2007 Aldeburgh Church
• A Simple Neo-Georgian Summer setting of Toby Litt. Recorded by NMC

String quartets

• from listening to trees: 11 minutes. First performance: Barbirolli Quartet October 25, 2008 Haslemere
• braid: 6 minutes. First performance: Brodsky String Quartet July 2007 Lichfield Cathedral
• time back for time given: 5 minutes. First performance: Duke Quartet June 2004 Cheltenham Festival

Orchestral

• Put Flesh On! for cello, electronics and orchestra: 12 minutes. First performance: LCO and Olly Coates and Sound Intermedia October 2008
• Plinth: 5.5 minutes. First performance: LSO November 2007 Barbican

Instrumental

• no currency (solo piano): 6.5 minutes. First performance: Sarah Nichols June 2006 Blue Elephant Theatre
• Put Flesh On! for cello and electronics: 8 minutes. First performance: Olly Coates at Faster than Sound June 2008
• for zoe (cello): 5 minutes. First performance: Zoe Martlew at The Crypt Camberwell

Small chamber

• join: bassoon and piano or cor anglais and piano or flute and harp: 6 minutes. First performance: c3 2004
• how we begin to remember: trumpet/ accordion/ double bass: 6 minutes. First performance: c3 November 2006
• hotel twiga: percussion and accordion: 5 minutes. First performance: c3 November 2006
• cry baby: 2 electric guitars: 5 minutes. First performance: c3 November 2005
• 26 horsepower: clarinet/ viola/ piano: 5 minutes. First performance: c3 November 2007

Large chamber

• think about space: 5 minutes. First performance: London Sinfonietta 2005
• 26 Horsepower: 6.5 minutes. First performance: St Pauls Sinfonia November 2007

External links

• NMC website review - a branch of the Society for the Promotion of New Music
  Society for the Promotion of New Music
  The Society for the Promotion of New Music was founded in London in 1943 with the intention of promoting the creation, performance and appreciation of new music...
  
  
• Hall's bio for Faster than Sound 2008 at the Aldeburgh Festival