Hannah Collins, cello
Cellist Hannah Collins is a multifaceted artist, educator, and arts-in-health advocate. Winner of De Linkprijs for contemporary interpretation, she is committed to championing compelling new works for cello. 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 in 2020 they were awarded the Ariel Avant Impact Performance Prize.
Hannah is a member of Decoda and the Boston-based chamber orchestra A Far Cry, having also recently performed with The Knights, Boston Baroque's X-tet, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She earned a B.S. in biomedical engineering from Yale and also holds degrees in music from the Yale School of Music, the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and CUNY Graduate Center. She is an alumna of Ensemble Connect, a collaborative program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute and has held faculty positions at the University of Kansas and University of Chicago. She is the executive director of the Longwood Symphony, the orchestra of Boston’s healthcare community, which is devoted to promoting the role of the arts in individual and community health. www.hannahcollinscello.com