emily hall

2012-02-28T10:50:00.000Z

One of the 3 songs I wrote for Matt Sharp and Dominic Harlan performed at Astor Theatre, Deal last Friday night. Some students from Roger Manwood school join in with the harmoniesSorry about recording quality, I'll replace with better soon......

2012-01-19T10:20:00.001Z

Nightingale and the Rose is playing in the Vaults festival, the old vic tunnels, 7:30, 9th Febuary. Live singing too! sneak preview?.....

2012-01-10T12:59:00.000Z

Nightingale and the Rose is showing at the Roxy cinema, Brixton tomorrow along with the other three Fables Streetwise Opera films. There will be live music too from Streetwise performers. Tickets are £6, Starts 7pm.http://www.roxybarandscreen.com/listings.php?event=1863

2012-01-04T09:53:00.001Z

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside! I'm starting 2012 by writing a set of songs to be programmed alongside Schumann's Dichterliebe as part of the 2012 Deal Festival......

2011-12-08T13:39:00.001Z

I'm very happy Oliver Coates will be playing a bunch of my music in Bucharest, Romania, on the 16th December, courtesy of the British Council. He will play.... In Time, Eternity, All Grand and all Bright, Put Flesh On....here's a video Tony Comley did for 'In Time' back in 2008

Stately Turrets Fall from Tony Comley on Vimeo.

2011-10-26T13:35:00.001+01:00

Nice news, all the composers from last years' Streetwise production, 'Fables', for which I wrote Nightingale and the Rose, have all been shortlisted for the outreach category of this award.

2011-10-18T09:54:00.000+01:00

My setting of Rimbaud's Eternity making 3 minutes of David Sheppard's extraordinary hour-long "Here, now" installation in the Bordeaux "Sub Base", an old Nazi sub marine base built in the war, as part of the 2011 Evento festival. Olivia Chaney is singing.

2011-10-03T14:44:00.001+01:00

On thursday this week David Sheppard's installation opens at the Evento 2011 festival in Bordeaux. Here is my setting of Rimbaud's 'Eternity' which features in the installation sung by Olivia Chaney
www.evento2011.com

2011-09-19T17:53:00.001+01:00

Here's a little vid of the final song of 'Life Cycle' sung by none other than Mara Carlyle at Riverside theatre this summer....cello Oliver Coates, piano John Reid and me singing harmonies from the lighting box!

Evento 2011 in Bordeaux

2011-09-13T09:27:00.003+01:00

I'm setting a poem by Arthur Rimbaud to be part of David Sheppard's amazing installation in a disused submarine base in Bordeaux at this year's Evento festival

2011-08-31T11:14:00.002+01:00

I can't wait for Moats and Thones to sing one or two of my songs at 'In the Woods' festival this Saturday with cellist Olly Coates

http://www.inthewoodsfestival.co.uk

last chance to see the seafarer

2011-08-24T15:23:00.004+01:00

Two weekends left to see the brilliant Seafarer installation at the Royal Festival Hall by Oliver Coates, David Sheppard and Netia Jones

....and there's a little song i wrote somewhere along the way sung by Alice Grant of Moates and Thrones

http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/tickets/the-seafarer-60025

and another new song...

2011-08-24T11:20:00.001+01:00

Me singing, harmonies Mina Tindle, words adapted from a poem by Elisabetta Liguori

One of my new songs....

2011-08-22T11:12:00.004+01:00

sung by Mina Tindle, Lyrics adapted from a poem by Elisabetta Liguori

Life Cycle 6pm this Sunday in London

2011-08-16T13:51:00.003+01:00

There's another chance to hear the Opera North production of my Life Cycle this Sunday at 6pm, sung by the amazing Mara Carlyle with Oliver Coates (cello) and John Reid (piano) and visuals by Lightmap and sound design by David Sheppard.

http://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/life-cycle/ (tickets £4/£6)

tete a tete

2011-07-26T11:28:00.004+01:00

I've got two things being performed at the tete a tete festival this summer at the Riverside theatre, Hammersmith

4th and 5th August, my film opera
'Nightingale and the Rose' Streetwise Opera, with a live performance and.....

21st August, song cycle about motherhood written with Toby Litt
'Life Cycle' performed by Mara Carlyle, Oliver Coates and John Reid

www.tete-a-tete.org.uk

2011-07-14T11:25:00.013+01:00

Lucky me!

Last weekend I was fortunate enough to have some lovely new pictures taken by the very talented photographing team Rob Orchard and Kate Benjamin.

There are lots more lovely ones from this shoot (including some jumping ones!) on my photos page at the side. And check out their other great work on the flickr links below.

photo by Rob Orchard

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob_orchard/)

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/cardigankate/)

FABLES AT LATTITUDE

2011-06-30T13:18:00.003+01:00

If you're planning to go to Lattitude this year,

look out for Streetwise Opera 'Fables' in the

Music and Film tent where they will be showing

4 short film-operas

by Mira Calix, Bellowhead, Orlando Gough and

my 'Nightingale and the Rose'

SEAFARER

2011-06-20T09:59:00.004+01:00

9th July - 4th September

as part of the Festival of Britain at the South Bank

Some newly written songs of mine will be incorporated into an installation based on the Seafarer exploring unknown parts of the Royal Festival hall.

I've recorded the gorgeous voice of Alice Grant for this and set words inspired by a translation of the Seafarer made by Amy Kate Riach (whose voice also will appear in the installation).

It is running on weekends between July and September at 2pm

http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/tickets/the-seafarer-60025

2011-06-14T10:30:00.005+01:00

I wrote this for Olly Coates - he is dueting with a lady trying to remember the tune of a song on the piano. All Grand All Bright was a London Sinfonietta commission for an installation in the Kings Cross Goods Yard a year ago.

Here's a nice recording we did in a studio a few months back produced by nearfield

All Grand All Bright by emilyhallblog

IN THE WOODS

2011-06-07T11:01:00.002+01:00

I'm writing a few songs for Oliver Coates and Moats and Thrones for this amazing little festival in September

www.inthewoodsfestival.co.uk

Leeds Life Cycle Friday

2011-05-23T16:43:00.005+01:00

Mara Carlyle, Oliver Coates and John Reid are performing mine and Toby Litt's latest song cycle, 'Life Cycle' at 7:45pm at Assembly Rooms, Opera North this friday 27th May.

Here's what the Eastern Daily Press said about the latest performance at the N&N festival in Norwich:

"Original music with haunting words chimes with mood; captures time, emotion and imagination. We have all been born, but only women have experienced childbirth.

Built round a song cycle, it was an evolving work without finite narrative, but giving us glimpses of being a mother. Toby Litt’s words and Emily Hall’s music dovetailed to create a succession of song fragments that told their own story.

‘There used to be a woman in this body, not just milk and carrying”, spoke volumes. It was Mara Carlyle’s versatile and beautiful singing that breathed life into the lyrics.

Lightmap provided both ethereal and gaunt images, projected onto cupboards. Put like that, it sounds strange. It wasn’t . It was life reflected."

There are still tickets going: http://www.operanorth.co.uk/events/performance-life-cycle/

Nightingale and the Rose

2011-05-18T11:04:00.004+01:00

Here's a few minutes of my Streetwise Opera film, in collaboration with Gaelle Denis. Kevin Woodward, Mara Carlyle and Alice Grant are singing

The next performance/showing is tonight 19th May Stadt Kino, Lucerne, Switzerland and in the UK on the 4th June at the Welsh National Opera Open House, Cardiff

SoundRes

2011-05-16T16:26:00.004+01:00

I'm really excited to be doing a 'SoundRes' residency this summer in Lecce, Italy, with some very amazing musicians like David Cossin (percussionist of Band on a Can), Buke and Gass (Brocklyn-based band), Lee Renaldo (of Sonic Youth), Leah Singer (video artist), David Sheppard (sound designer), Jeffrey Zeigler (from the Kronos Quartet) and Paola Prestin (composer).

New London Life Cycle Date

2011-05-10T22:42:00.005+01:00

We've got a new date for Life Cycle at the Riverside theatre as part of the Tete a tete festival.
Mara Carlyle, Oliver Coates and John Reid.
21st August 2011

Here's a link to Opera North's blurb about it...

http://www.operanorth.co.uk/events/performance-life-cycle/

Nightingale Live

2011-05-10T22:36:00.004+01:00

There are more new dates for the Streetwise Opera 'Fables' tour of 'Nightingale and the Rose'

....and here's a clip from the BFI live performance of 'Full of Tears'

Nightingale live BFI by emilyhallblog

20 June Edinburgh International Film Festival (a screening event focussing on homelessness in partnership with Open Cinema)
30 June Zion Arts Centre, Manchester (screening and live performance)
5 July Cheltenham Music Festival
Mid Aug Tete a Tete Opera Festival, London
Oct 2011 Optica Festival, Spain
May 2012 Theatre Transparant, Netherlands

'Fables' Streetwise Opera trailer

2011-04-13T16:41:00.001+01:00

Here is the Streetwise Opera trailer which includes the 'Nightingale and the Rose' I wrote with film maker Gaelle Denis. It is currently touring the uk

I'm also a building

2011-04-06T12:08:00.000+01:00

Rehearsals for Life Cycle tour are underway

2011-04-06T11:50:00.001+01:00

Opera North is touring 'Life Cycle' the next performance is on the 11th of May in norwich at the N&N festival