Emily Hall
Emily Hall is a composer, a violinist and a producer. Much of Emily Hall's music is formed from close creative relationships with singers, instrumentalists and writers and finding her own ways of using technology and live performance.
Emily Hall is a member of Bedroom Community, the Icelandic record label. She has written for the London Sinfonietta, LSO, BBC NOW, the Brodsky Quartet, Opera North, LCO, Mahogany Opera, Hungarian Radio Choir, Aldeburgh Music, Streetwise Opera, Lady Maisery, Allan Clayton, Jodie Landau, Olivia Chaney. Her music is frequently broadcast on BBC Radio 2, 3, 4 and 6 Music. Emily Hall is the recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, the Genesis Opera Prize, the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Award and the Corinthia AIR.
Emily has written 5 operas, none of which are traditional in form and many, many songs, including a trilogy of song cycles with author Toby Litt, on love ("Befalling"), motherhood ("Life Cycle") and death ("Rest”). She has a band called Mandel, in which she she co-writes with musician and music therapist Misha Law. Emily Hall is signed up to Culture Declares an ecological emergency.
(Photo: Marco Vittur)
Work(s) for Slide Action:
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for 4 trombones.
[Premiered 11/06/2022 Britten Studio, Aldeburgh Festival]
“Close palms started in a little part of my opera, 'Folie a Deux', which includes the lyric “close palms”. It’s a moment where two become one. I took that passage and developed it for this piece. Something about the atmosphere of that moment really suited this unusual set up of trombone quartet.” Emily Hall, 2021
What People Are Saying About Emily:
“The freedom with which Emily Hall writes songs, there is a disarming directness in her music”
— Tom Service, BBC Radio 3
"Emily Hall's restless modernity mixes classical precision with an ear for folk and electronics.”
— MOJO