Hannah Marshall
Hannah experiments with approaches to playing the 'Cello, mainly using improvisation, working with a range of groups and projects in the UK and Europe. She makes theatre with a visual theatre company, The Ding Foundation, which she co-runs with designer and maker Amelia Pimlott, and she collaborates with other artists in the fields of dance, theatre, storytelling, visual art and film, fulfilling roles like performer, sound designer, musician, composer, facilitator, devisor, puppeteer, and outside ears/eyes. She is an music/arts educator working with individuals or in community and group settings with people of diverse ages, backgrounds, abilities and spectrums. Apart from the projects mentioned above, other musicians she works and plays with would include John Butcher, Fred Frith, Lotte Anker, Ingrid Laubrock, Tony Buck, Simon Roth, Kay Grant, Mandy Drummond, Ntshuks Bonga, Orphy Robinson, Sylvia Hallett, Shabaka Hutchins, Suichi Chino, Atsuko Kamura, Alex Hawkins, Ansuman Biswas, Sarah Gail Brand, Maggie Nicols & Christian Marclay. She have created scores and soundtracks for various performance ensembles including the People Show, Anton Mirto, Improbable Theatre, 20 Stories High, Arlette George, A2, The Young Vic, Battersea Arts Centre, Norwich Puppet theatre, The Little Angel Theatre, Wild Theatre & Mayuri Boonham.
LIVE / GIGS / DATES
Jan
15: W/ CROSSING - Veryan Weston - Piano, Yusuf Ahmed - Drums & Pei Ann Yeoh - Violin - Fizzle Birmingham
16: W/ CROSSING - Veryan Weston - Piano, Yusuf Ahmed - Drums & Pei Ann Yeoh - Violin - Wakefield
20: W/ CROSSING - Veryan Weston - Piano, Yusuf Ahmed - Drums & Pei Ann Yeoh - Violin - The Vortex London
22: W/ Evan Parker - Saxophones & John Edwards - Bass @ The Vortex - London
Feb
4: W/ Marcio Mattos - Bass & Ian McGowen - Trumpet @ Boat - Ting London
10: W/ Douglas Benford - objects, Mandhira de Saram - Violin & John Butcher - Saxophones, 4pm @ 100 years Gallery - London
17: W/ Lawrence Casserley - Electronics & Alison Blunt - Violin @ Mopomoso - The Vortex London
21: Solo @ Centrala Gallery Digbeth Birmigham- also on the bill are: Richard Scott- Viola, Joe Wright - Saxophones/electronics, Tapiwa Svosve - alto saxophone & James Opstad - Double Bass
March
6: W/ Brian Irvine Ensemble @ Black Box - Belfast
7: W/ Brian Irvine Ensemble @ Limerick City Hotel
8: W/ Brian Irvine Ensemble @ Spectrum Festival, Button Factory - Dublin
9: W/ Brian Irvine Ensemble @ Navan - Ireland
April
25: Solo 'Cello @ Textures Festival, Cafe Oto - London
28: Duo W/ Veryan Weston - Piano @ Jazz Rumours - London
May
04: Rachel Musson Nonet @ Cheltenham Jazz Festival
05: Playing at FlatPack Film Festival - Birmingham
18: Duo W/ Colin Webster - Saxophones @ Brak - London
29: W/ Julie Kjaer - Alto sax, Dave Birchall - Guitar & Andrew Cheetham - Drums - Brighton
30:W/ Julie Kjaer - Alto sax, Dave Birchall - Guitar & Andrew Cheetham - Drums - Birmingham MAC
31: W/ Julie Kjaer - Alto sax, Dave Birchall - Guitar & Andrew Cheetham - Drums - Bristol
June
01: W/ Julie Kjaer - Alto sax, Dave Birchall - Guitar & Andrew Cheetham - Drums - Norwich
02: W/ Julie Kjaer - Alto sax, Dave Birchall - Guitar & Andrew Cheetham - Drums @ Hundred Years Gallery London
19: Rachel Musson Nonet @ cafe Oto - London
July
07: W/ Lawrence Casserley - Electronics/live processing & Alison Blunt - Violin @ 100 years Gallery - London
21: W/ Ian Mcgowen - Trumpet & marcio Mattos - Bass @ Mopomoso - The Vortex Club - London
August
11: W/ Dialogues with Strings- Trevor Watts - Tenor and Soprano Sax, Veryan Weston - Piano & Alison Blunt - Violin @ Exploratorium - Berlin - Germany
PROJECTS/ GROUPS/ PEOPLE
BARREL
THE DING FOUNDATION
I Co-run, devise, perform and compose music for this visual theatre / puppetry company, making work since 2001.
"intensely moving" - Joyce Macmillan - The Scotsman
“So good, I thought it was foreign" - Audience member
MUSSON / KJAER / MARSHALL
Trio of 2 saxophones and 'Cello: Julie Kjaer - Alto Saxophone, Rachel Musson - Tenor Saxophone & HM - 'Cello.
" a single diaphonous improvisation of heart stopping intensity and quietude that brings the entire room into a tip-toed state of heightened awareness..." Daniel Spicer - The Wire
ALEX WARD QUINTET
Compositions and structures of Alex Ward. With Alex Ward - Guitar & Clarinet, Rachel Musson - Tenor Saxophone, Tom Jackson - Clarinet, Olie Brice - Bass, HM - 'Cello & Steve Noble - Drums (in sextet).
“a
deft and utterly mesmeric composition for five improvisers” -
Philip Clark – The Guardian
HALFTONE
With Yvonna Magda – Violin,
Caitlin Alais Callahan – Bass, HM – 'Cello & Tina Hitchens –
Flutes Halftone pushes past the conventions of traditional instruments in
order to explore ever expanding sonic possibilities.
'The
foursome play an unsettling, absently beautiful post classical music
evoking wind in the trees, unresolved conversations and difficulties
around corners' – Misfit City.
VERYAN WESTON
Projects with Pianist Veryan Weston have included: Trio of Uncertainty (+ Satoko Fukuda - Violin), Sol6 (+ Luc Ex - Acoustic Bass, Ingrid Laubrock - Tenor Saxophone, Mandy Drummond - Viola & Tony Buck - Drums), Haste (+ Ingrid laubrock), Tuning Out (+ Jon Rose - Violins) ...and continue with: Trevor Watts' 'Dialogues with strings' (+ Alison Blunt- Violin), Rhythm Figures Project (+ Mike Gennero - Drums), and most recently 'Crossing' with Yusuf Ahmed Drums + guests.
"...together, these three musicians have created an ingenious document where past and present collide revealing a glimpse what might be in a not-so- imaginary future" (About Haste) Raul de Gama Rose - All about Jazz
THE VULTURES
Alt-rock no guitar sextet The Vultures: Bass, 2 Violins, 'Cello, Drums with the Baritone vocals of songwriter Ben Etchells.
"Groove-laden rhythm that brings to mind the melancholy songwriting of joy division....the band expertly craft dark soundscapes full of shadowy concepts and lamenting lyrics ecompassing influences not just from other musicians but from literature film and art" - Flick of the Finger
OTTO WILLBERG
Duos and collaborations with the hugely energetic and creative double bass player Otto Willberg.
6IX
6ix is an international sextet with Roger Turner - Drums, Jacques Demierre - Piano, Urs Leimgruber - Reeds, Dorothea Schurch- Singing Saw /voice, & Thomas Lehn - Analogue Synthesisor, and HM - 'cello.
Past reviews:
"...a game of concentration, sound colors, spicks and specks everywhere - as if a Jackson Pollock painting came to life - great art, really demanding. The more often you listen to it, the more beautiful details you can find in these sound landscapes" - Martin Schray
JOSEP MARIA BALANYA
Over the years I have developed an on-going, creative collaboration with the very singular Catalan pianist, percussionist & vocalist. Josep Maria Balanya. We have performed at several venues in UK. Holland, & Belgium.
TRANCE MAP
Trance map is a collaboration between saxophonist Evan Parker and electronics/turntableist Matt Wright who invite musicians to join them to further develop an exploration of turntable generated music with live sampling. Invited musicians apart from myself have been Toma Gouband’s lithophones, percussionist Mark Nauseef, trumpeter Peter Evans, bassist Adam Linson and DJ Spring Heeled Jack.
