Winner of De Linkprijs for contemporary interpretation, cellist Hannah Collins is a dynamic performer devoted to building community through musical expression. Resonance Lines, her solo debut album on the Sono Luminus label, is an “adventurous, impressive collection of contemporary solo cello music,” negotiated “with panache” (The Strad), pairing music by Benjamin Britten and Kaija Saariaho with commissioned works by Caroline Shaw and Thomas Kotcheff. Over the past decade, New Morse Code, her “remarkably inventive and resourceful duo” (Gramophone) with percussionist Michael Compitello, has developed projects responding to our society’s most pressing issues and they were recently awarded the Ariel Avant Impact Performance Prize.
Hannah is a member of Bach Aria Soloists, A Far Cry, and Grossman Ensemble, and has recently performed on modern and Baroque cello with The Knights, Quodlibet Ensemble, Cantata Profana, and the Sebastians. Hannah earned a B.S. in biomedical engineering from Yale and holds degrees in music from the Yale School of Music, the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and City University of New York. She is an alumna of Ensemble Connect, a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and Weill Music Institute, and is currently Associate Professor of Cello at the University of Kansas.
