Emily Hall - Composer

Emily Hall is a composer, known first and foremost for her songwriting.

Much of Emily Hall's music is formed from close creative relationships with singers, instrumentalists and writers and finding her own ways of using technology and live performance. 

She has written for the BBC Singers, Manchester Collective, London Sinfonietta, LSO, LCO, BBC NOW, the Brodsky Quartet, Opera North, LCO, Mahogany Opera, Hungarian Radio Choir, Aldeburgh Music, Streetwise Opera.

Emily has written 5 operas, none of which are traditional in form and many, many songs, including a trilogy of song cycles with author Toby Litt, on love ("Befalling"), motherhood ("Life Cycle") and death ("Rest”). 

Her music has been recorded by a multitude of artists including the BBC Singers, LSO, Allan Clayton, Olivia Chaney, Lady Maisery, The Hermes Experiment, Juice Vocal Ensemble and Onyx Brass.

Emily Hall is the recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, the Genesis Opera Prize, the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Award and the Corinthia AIR.

Emily Hall is a member of Bedroom Community, the Icelandic record label and is signed to Manners Mcdade publishing.