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

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She took classical undergraduate studies in 'Cello at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where she also got involved in composition, jazz & contemporary music, later training with Community Music Ltd.

Since then she has been working with musicians, artists and companies, helping people of all kinds to learn music and making her own work.

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Involved in free-improvisation and creative music since the early noughties, Hannah's playing has carved 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 as an instrument to be played with traditional sensibility, often combining the two. ​

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Her collaborative practice has developed both as a composer and performer through creative experiences ranging from from street performance to large festivals, with bands, ad hoc groups and theatre companies , tightly rehearsed, company devised or totally spontaneous, and is informed by interests and studies including physical theatre, pedagogy, jazz, studio recording and sound design, natural law, film-making & sound healing.

 

​Her experience working in cross-arts collaboration includes being co-artistic director with maker/designer Amelia Pimlott in a visual theatre company  - The Ding Foundation - which formed in 2001. She has performed in, 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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Since 2020 Hannah has been making short films under the title 'Long Life Production'

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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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Due to performing freely improvised music Hannah has opportunities to work and play among many wonderful musicians, those include: Veryan Weston, Alison Blunt, Ivor Kallin, Rachel Musson, Angharad Davies, John Edwards, John Russell, Roger Turner, Youth, 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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Hannah regularly tutors learners of music and creative arts.