Hannah Collins

Hannah Collins

cello

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.

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