News: National Concert Hall’s Perspectives Series Presents Hannah Peel

National Concert Hall’s Perspectives Series Presents Hannah Peel Performing Her Mercury-nominated Album Fir Wave Live this October Hannah Peel – Fir Wave Live Sunday 1st October 8pm National Concert Hall Tickets €27 (10% Discount for Friends of NCH and Groups of 10 or more) Tickets On Sale: Friday 26th May 10am Box Office Tel: 01 4170000 www.nch.ie ‘Brilliant album. A gorgeous, fizzing record.’ The Observer

Press Release 10am Monday 24 May

Ivor Novello winner Hannah Peel will perform her Mercury Music Prize-nominated album Fir Wave live in the National Concert Hall on Sunday October 1st. On the lauded recording, Peel makes connections and new patterns that mirror the Earth’s ecological cycles through music, with astounding results.  

Peel has just emerged victorious at the Ivor Novello Awards in the Best Television Soundtrack category for her work on The Midwich Cuckoos, other accolades include an Emmy-nomination, a Royal Television Society award and a Music Producers Guild trophy. In addition, the Northern Irish composer has a slew of successful solo albums and collaborative releases to her name including 2016’s Awake But Always Dreaming and 2017’s Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia and most recently The Unfolding with Charles Hazelwood’s Paraorchestra which reached No. 1 in the Classical Charts. 

She has worked with Paul Weller on several occasions, including arranging strings and woodwind for his True Meanings album and orchestrating and conducting on live album Other Aspects. 

Hannah’s television and film soundtrack work includes The Midwich Cuckoos (Sky TV), Lisa McGee’s The Deceived, Rogue Agent and Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (HBO). Since 2019, she has been a weekly presenter on the BBC Radio 3 show Night Tracks. 

Also upcoming in the Perspectives Series: 

Abdullah Ibrahim - Thursday 13th July 8pm 

Mariza - Thursday 17th July 8pm 

Nickel Creek - Wednesday 30th August 8pm 

Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve - Thursday 7th September 8pm 

Brad Mehldau 14 Reveries – Sunday 17th September 7.30pm 

Tickets €27 

On Sale Friday 26th May 10am   

10% Discount for Friends of NCH   

10% Discount for Groups of 10 or more     

www.nch.ie    

Box Office Tel: 01 4170000  

ENDS            
Media Queries: Sinead Doyle, Marketing & PR Manager or Roisin Dwyer, PR & Publications Executive, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2. (S. Doyle Tel: 087 1775334 / R. Dwyer 085 7129628)