Hannah Kendall is a British composer. She has worked with ensembles such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and LA Phil and her festival appearances include the BBC Proms, London; Berliner Festspiele; and Donaueschinger Musiktage, Germany. Kendall studied music at the University of Exeter before completing a master’s in advanced composition at the Royal College of Music, London, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition at Columbia University, New York. Her music is published by Ricordi (Berlin). She received the Hindemith Prize for outstanding contemporary composers in 2022 and the Ivor Novello Award for Best Large Ensemble Composition in 2023. Kendall lives and works in New York and London.

As of October 2024