Cello | Improvisation | Workshops | Sound & Composition
Hannah Marshall
photograph by Julian Richards
photograph by Peter Gannushkin
https://downtownmusic.net/
"...a flight of the imagination in which every possible interaction with the instrument seems to arise, whether willfully or with a dream-like sense of chance or a narrative inevitability." - Stuart Broomer - Point of Departure.
" The artist and her instrument seem to live in every second of their physical presence, every sound flowing from the strings, the soundboard, and the human body. Expression, a certain audacity, a refusal to accept dramatic pauses, shortcuts, and simplifications are the guiding characteristics of this story" - Spontaneous Music Tribune
"....Fortunately, in recent years, aesthetic questions, technical and technological developments, and, let's face it, the increasing number of women in the profession have allowed this descendant of the rebec to integrate into contemporary stages and experimental laboratories on equal footing with its counterparts. Among the undisputed figures of the profession, we find Londoner Hannah Marshall, whose "Grazing" is one of the most astonishing solos I have ever heard on this instrument..." - Joelle Pagier for Revue et Corrige
Grazing - released by Relative Pitch
20th February 2026
Dave Tucker - double bass & violin
Hannah Marshall - cello
Recorded, mixed, and mastered between 2020 and late 2025 by Dave Tucker at House of Frankenstein, North London. Photograph by Dave Tucker.
Lawns is released by Scatter Archive
6th March 2026