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

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

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Her broader practice has developed through experiences in classical music, with bands and with jazz oriented music, street performance, theatre, tightly rehearsed, devised or spontaneous, and is informed by interests and studies in creative group practice, physicality, pedagogy, natural law & sound healing.

 

​Her experience in performance and theatre includes co-artistic direction of a visual theatre company  - The Ding Foundation with designer Amelia Pimlott.

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She has made the sound & music for many productions between 1997-2025, 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.