Hanna is in her second year at ANAM while completing a Bachelor of Music Performance at Melbourne University. She grew up playing violin and only switched to viola after forming the Cousin Quartet. The Cousin Quartet, made up of Hanna, her brother Jamie, and her two cousins Beatrice and Dylan, were awarded First Prize in the inaugural Musica Viva Strike a Chord in 2020 and have been performing together ever since. Musica Viva also awarded them the opportunity to be mentored by and perform Shostakovich Octet with the Flinders Quartet.
Hanna has most experience in chamber music, having played chamber works with her family and close friends since early childhood, but has found a love for orchestral music having attended Australian Youth Orchestra programs since 2022, including as principal viola working with Sophie Rowell as music director in 2024.
Hanna is thrilled to continue her studies with Caroline Henbest and is eager to learn Edward Walton’s Viola Concerto.
FROM: NSW. Lands of the Garigal people.
Hanna is supported by ANAM Syndicate donors Elise Callender, Anne Frankenberg and Adrian McEniery, Joan and Barry Miskin, Dr Christine and Dr Howard Wright.
Photo by Pia Johnson