This piece is based on the true story of the three highway men who murdered
a sailor as he was making his journey to Portsmoth to get back to his ship.
On the 24th September 1786, three men met a sailor in Surrey on his route to
Portsmouth. They followed him from the pub where he had just bought them 
drinks and murdered him in the Devil's Punchbowl, Hindhead.
They were apprehended at the Sun Inn, Rake; where they were immediately
tried and exectuted. They were hung on Gibbet Hill in Hindhead, where a 
memorial to the sailor still stands today.

The Capture and Trial of the Three Highway Men (Wind Trio)

Love Song for the Bear (Pesma za Medveda/Pesma za Ljiljanu)

Daydream Interlude

A Dusty Afternoon In Late August

Film Theme no. 1

A piece written for the Women of the World festival, performed by Shiva Nova at Kings Place on 23/10/15

As the Sun Comes Up

Inspired by Graham Lee's 2001 Toyota Corolla of the same name. Explores slidiness. 

White Lightning

Nonsense Suite: movements II (My Sister Laura), III (Land of the Bumbley Boo) and V (Bazonka). Recorded live in Blackheath Halls

Nonsense Suite II III & V

Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high! 
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came,
And we pushed,
And they flew.

Performed by Rhiannon Jeffreys, live in Blackheath Halls

Fly, Like Beasts

Glass Purr - Hannah Dilkes (2012)

Piece for sextet inspired by the music of Robert Glasper.
Horns: Reiss Beckles (Sax), Mark Kavuma (Trumpet), Rosie Turton (Trombone) 
Rhythm Section: Joe Armon-Jones (Keys), Jack Polley (Bass), Jake Long (Kit), Becky Brass (Percussion)

Glass Purr

Piece for solo 'cello written May 2013. Many thanks to Dan Johnson - soundcloud.com/blunderandfrightening 
Cello - Sarah James

Johnson - for Solo 'Cello

Contact: e: <a href="mailto:hannah.dilkes@hotmail.com">hannah.dilkes@hotmail.com</a>

Hannah Dilkes was a composition student at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music in London, studying under the likes of Stephen Montague, Ed Jessen, Gwyn Pritchard, Dominic Murcott and Duncan MacLeod.
Her music has been performed by The Aurora Orchestra, the Britten Sinfonia, Oliver Coates, The Smith Quartet, Saxofonquadrat of Berlin, The Benyounes Quartet, SCYO and the Alton College Composers Ensemble.

In 2012 Hannah was fortunate enough to become one of the ten shortlisted Britten Sinfonia OPUS2013 composers and got to work closely with the ensemble in the later part of the year. 

In 2011 she won the BBC Young Composer of the Year competition with her suite for large ensemble 'Two Nonsenses', which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 by members of the Aurora Orchestra.

Hannah recently worked alongside the Aurora Orchestra as part of their 'New Moves' season, which the Times reviewed  '[Echoes Through Sunken Forests is] beautiful, elegiac and folk-like'.

As a trombonist, Hannah has played alongside those such as of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Collon, Thomas Gould, Kenny Wheeler, Polar Bear, John Taylor, Christian Jones and Graham Lee in a range of styles from free jazz to Balkan to Mozart. She is a member of the Op Sa! Balkan Band.

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