Hannah Northedge who grew up in Leicester and Australia began singing professionally 15 years ago. She was encouraged by her mother also a professional singer. She trained classically before discovering that her voice was incredibly suited to jazz and country rock. She studied under the expert tutelage of Mary Hammond (The Royal Academy of Music), Evelyn Dowling (masterclasses in Dublin), Dinah Harris and international jazz singer Tina May. The Hannah Northedge Jazz Bands are her own ensembles that she fronts at events, weddings and for recordings in the UK and abroad. She is currently recording an album of jazz standards and self penned country jazz originals and has had label interest from The Jazz radio station.

She holds residencies across London and is a regular performer at the 606 Jazz Club with The Russ Henderson Trio. She has also made several appearances at The Greenwich Jazz Festival and is booked to play at Mill Hill and Harborough Jazz Clubs in 2008.

Hannah has been a guest singer with The Rat Pack Trio and Orchestra since early 2006. She continues to tour sold out theatres with them nationwide.

She has fronted swing band Rockin' in Rhythm, Kind of Jazz function band, The Piccadilly Dance Orchestra, 78rpm and The Rob James Orchestra. She works with former BBC Big Band leader, composer and pianist Ronnie Smith, internationally renowned pianist and composer Simon Wallace. She also learnt her craft by singing with function bands on cruise ships.

Hannah also plays piano, rhythm guitar and is learning bass guitar which she loves!

OTHER CREDITS

• Session fixing her own choir The Hannah Northedge Singers for composer Roque Banos (The Machinist, Sexy Beast) for major feature film The Oxford Murders starring Elijah Wood and John Hurt. She appeared in the film and recorded the soundtrack at Abbey Road Studios. It is on nationwide release in the UK on April 25^th 2008.

• Session singing Beethoven’s 9^th “Choral” Symphony at Sir George Martin’s Air Studios for executive producer Ernst Goldschmidt for the soundtrack to “Copying Beethoven” starring Ed Harris.

• Top line vocals for Jackie Chambers lead guitarist of rock group Girlschool.

• Vocal coach and musical mentor to pop group Holah for producer John Hudson (Tina Turner, Radiohead, Coldplay, Sugababes) at Mayfair Studios, London.

• London Symphony Chorus for Sir Colin Davis, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Richard Hickox, Dave Brubeck.

• She has many lead acting roles under her belt notably as Hitler’s secretary Traudl Junge for series Days That Shook the World for BBC 2, BBC 4 and The History Channel.

Hannah has been teaching singing for over 12 years privately, in schools, night classes and for groups. Singers of all abilities are welcome, especially very nervous students. Tuition in all musical genres offered, plus assistance with music theory and harmony.

Her zest and passionate for music and teaching are so contagious that singers can’t help but be enthused and inspired by her teaching methods. Hannah believes that singing can create confidence in other areas of a person’s life and is a very therapeutic and healing activity.

Hannah loves discovering new individual voices and places great emphasis on developing a person’s unique “signature” sound.

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