Hannah gained her degree in Music and Dance Education from Keele University, her Licentiate from the Royal Academy of Music and continues to study with Jeffrey Talbot. She joined D’Oyly Carte in 1998 as Principal Understudy for their West End productions and recordings of Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore. This spring Hannah featured as soprano soloist with Ensemble Lumiere at the BBC Maida Vale studios, in a CD of another new work by St Johanser, “Goblin Fruit”.
Hannah continues to work as a soprano throughout the UK and Europe as an opera, oratorio and concert soloist , and has toured the International Festivals with many groups among them the Ambrosian Singers, Opera International and the Hanover Band. She has also recorded as a soloist for the Australian Broadcasting Commission at the Sydney Opera House. Closer to home venues for concert and oratorio have included St.John’s Smith Square, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Barbican in performances of the Mozart Mass in C minor, the Rossini Petite Messe Solenelle, and the Haydn Imperial Nelson Mass.
Hannah has been invited to sing Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate in Worcester and Fiordiligi for Cameo Opera, and will be touring a recital of Shakespeare in Song along with Judith Buckle in the Autumn of 2009.
Also involved in Music Education as a singing teacher, choir coach and animateur, Hannah presents opera and singing workshops with Opera d’Amici, promoting the revival of singing in schools. In June she directed the KMAS Infant Music Festival for the sixth consecutive year, involving over a thousand children! She will also be conducting part of the Junior Music Festival for Kingston at the newly opened Rose Theatre.
Hannah is an experienced singing teacher and a founder member of Banjos, taking huge delight in the continued development of our young voices.