Emily Hall

Emily Hall is a composer living in London. Her passion for classical music grew from listening to music with her Dad and playing the violin in youth orchestras in Sussex where she grew up; she read music at the University of York then studied orchestration with Yan Maresz in Paris. She received her Masters in Composition at the RCM studying with Julian Anderson and was subsequently awarded the Gilbert and Eileen Edgar Junior Fellowship also at the RCM. For the summer of 2004 Emily was awarded a Fellowship at the Tanglewood International which had a big effect on her music.

Her music has been performed by the Duke Quartet, LSO, Brodsky Quartet, London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and France Culture. Her recent songs, love songs, settings of Toby Litt lyrics, were performed at the Aldeburgh festival, and were met with critical acclaim.

She is the recipient of the prestigious Royal Philharmic Society Composition Award (2005) and the Genesis Opera Prize (2004). In 2006 her first opera, Sante, was co-produced by Aldeburgh Productions and the London Sinfonietta, directed by Tim Supple, at both LSO and at the Aldeburgh Festival.

Emily is a founding member of c3, the Camberwell Composers Collective which produces regular concerts in a jazz club in Camberwell.