Hannah Marshall works & plays in music & sound, performance, audio-visual and teaching.

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A 'Cellist who studied at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama from 1992-'96, where she also got involved in composition, jazz & contemporary music, later training with Community Music Ltd. 

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Involved in free-improvisation and experimental music-making since the early noughties, Hannah's playing carves unique pathways into micro-tonality, as well as standard harmonic aspects of the 'Cello, straddling edges where noise, melody, texture, rhythm & tonality blur, treating the 'Cello at times, as a collection of parts to be manipulated and re-analysed, and at others with traditional sensibility, often combining the two. ​

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Her collaborative practice has developed through formative experiences in street performance, ad hoc groups and theatre companies , tightly rehearsed, company devised or totally spontaneous, and is informed by interests and studies in group practice, theatre, pedagogy, sound design, natural law & sound healing.

 

​Her experience working in performance and theatre includes being co-artistic director with maker/designer Amelia Pimlott in a visual theatre company  - The Ding Foundation - which formed in 2001. She has written & recorded the sound/music for numerous productions, having worked with companies including: Wild theatre, Norwich Puppet Theatre, A2, People Show, Little Angel Theatre, Indefinite Articles, Improbable theatre, Angika Dance, One Moment in Time, Monstro Theatre, Royal Opera House, Polka Theatre, The Place, Medusa Media, Emma Bernard, White Rabbit, The London College of fashion and The Young Vic. 

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She has participated in new compositions by composers: Simon H Fell, John Butcher, Tim Hodgkinson, Dylan Bates, Veryan Weston, Julie Kjaer, Luc Ex, Sam Eastmond, Rachel Musson, Constantin Dimitrescu, Michael Oliva, Julien Pontvienne, Alison Blunt, Alexander Hawkins, Eva-Maria Houben & Alex Ward. She has performed extensively in the UK and mainland Europe, and toured in Russia (with Diatribes) and Brazil (with Sol 6).​

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Through playing improvised music Hannah has opportunities to play with many wonderful musicians. These have included: Veryan Weston, Trevor Watts,  Alison Blunt, Ivor Kallin, Rachel Musson, Angharad Davies, John Edwards, John Russell, Roger Turner, Youth, Nick Mulvey, Tony Marsh, Dave Tucker, Evan Parker & Matt Wright's Trance map+, Nick Malcolm, Lauren Kinsella, Martin Speake, Caroline Kraabel, Sylvia Hallett, Hutch Demouilpied, Ben Glasstone, Ansuman Biswas, Ntshuks Bonga, Fred Frith, Steve Beresford, Hobbit, Black Top, Xhosa Cole, Simon Roth, John Butcher, Jacques Demierre, Luc Ex, Diatribes, Ingrid Laubrock, Otto Willberg, Sam Andreae, Thurston Moore, Christian Marclay, Diatribes, Ben Etchells, Vid Drasler, Josep Balanya, Nicola Guazzaloca, Gianni Mimmo, N.O. Moore, Cath Roberts, Daniel Thompson, David Birchall & Dirar Kalash.​

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Since 2020 Hannah has been making short films and audio visual documents : 'Long Life Production'.

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Hannah tutors learners of music and the creative arts.