Hannah Peel

Hannah Mary Peel (born 27 August 1985) is a British Ivor Novello award-winning composer, producer and broadcaster. Her solo music is primarily electronic, synthesiser-based and often includes classical scoring and sound design, with references to the links between science, nature and music. She has scored music for television, film, theatre and dance, including her Emmy-nominated score to the documentary Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, and the British science fiction TV series The Midwich Cuckoos which won Peel an Ivor Novello award in 2023.

Peel releases her solo records on her own imprint label, My Own Pleasure Records. This includes her 2021 Mercury Music Prize nominated Fir Wave, Awake But Always Dreaming, and Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia.

Aside from her solo work, she has worked with collaborators on projects including orchestrations and conducting for Paul Weller, an album written for the British Paraorchestra, an album with the poet Will Burns, and as a member of the psychogeography indie rock group The Magnetic North and the electronic music group John Foxx and the Maths.

Early life

Peel was born in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, on 27 August 1985. When she was eight years old, her family moved to Barnsley in South Yorkshire. She enrolled in the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts at the age of 18. There, she studied violin, trombone and piano. Since then, Peel has gone on to score multiple TV shows and films full time.

Radio presenter Since 2019, Peel has been a weekly presenter on the BBC Radio 3 show Night Tracks. In 2019, she was a guest presenter on BBC 6 Music, filling in for Elbow's Guy Garvey. Peel has also presented specialist music series Unfinished Symphony for BBC Radio Ulster and in 2024, her first Night Tracks Prom at the BBC Proms.

Discography

Albums

Solo

2011: The Broken Wave (Static Caravan) 2016: Awake but Always Dreaming (My Own Pleasure) 2017: Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia (My Own Pleasure) 2018: Particles in Space (My Own Pleasure) 2019: Chalk Hill Blue (Rivertones) 2019: Game Of Thrones: The Last Watch OST(HBO) 2020: The Deceived OST (Silva Screen Records) 2021: Fir Wave (My Own Pleasure) 2021: Unheard Delia (My Own Pleasure) 2022: The Unfolding, featuring the Paraorchestra and Victoria Otuwari (Real World Records) 2022: Rogue Agent, OST (Universal Music) 2022: The Midwich Cuckoos, OST (Invada Records) 2023: Dancing At Lughnasa, OST (Broadway Records and National Theatre) 2024: Scoop, OST (Netflix music) 2024: Insomnia, OST (Madison Gate Records)

Collaborations

With Beyond the Wizards Sleeve

2016: The Soft Bounce (Phantasy)

With Philippe Cohen Solal and Mike Lindsay (Tunng)

2021: Outsider (Ya Basta! Records)

With John Foxx and the Maths

2013: Rhapsody (Metamatic Records) 2020: Howl (Metamatic Records)

With The Magnetic North

2012: Orkney: Symphony of The Magnetic North (Full Time Hobby) 2016: Prospect of Skelmersdale (Full Time Hobby)

With Manchester Collective

2023: Neon (Bedroom Community)

With Beibei Wang

2026: The Endless Dance (Real World Records)

EPs

Solo

2010: Rebox (Static Caravan)

2013: Nailhouse (Mitchum Submarine)

2014: Fabricstate (My Own Pleasure)

2015: Rebox 2 (My Own Pleasure)

Collaborations

With Philippe Cohen Solal and Mike Lindsay (Tunng) 2015: Henry J. Darger (Ya! Basta Records)

Singles

Solo

2021: Horizon (Deutsche Grammophon)

Performance / writing credits

Scores 2011: TeZukA by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui – several tracks using hand-punched music 2012: Compass (Sadler's Wells Theatre) – Full score 2012: Anna Karenina soundtrack – several tracks 2013: Dates – title music 2016: Santa Forgot – Alzheimer's Research UK and Aardman Animations – Full score 2018: Brighton Rock - Pilot Theatre - Full live theatre score 2018: Ice Alive - National Geographic - Full score 2018: Kiss Me First – Channel 4 / Netflix – title music and additional scoring 2018: The A List – BBC – title music 2019: Game of Thrones: The Last Watch OST (TV Special Documentary) – Full score 2019: Cold War Letters - London Calling – BBC 4 - Full score 2020: Close - Irish National Opera - Score 2020: The Deceived – Channel 5 - Full score 2020: Lee Miller: Life On The Frontline – BBC 2 - Full score 2021: Greenpeace: Act Now - Full score 2021: Anti-body - Alexander Whitely Dance Company - Full score 2021: This Cultural Life - Radio 4 (ongoing) - Full score 2022: Rogue Agent - Netflix - Full Score 2022: The Midwich Cuckoos - SKY Max - Full score 2023: Dancing At Lughnasa - Royal National Theatre - Full score 2023: Silent Roar - Film - Full score 2024: Scoop - Netflix - Full score 2024: Insomnia - Paramount Plus - Full score 2024: Bring Them Down - Film - Full score