Naarm-based musician Hannah began learning violin at age six with Emma Martin and Arun Patterson. She is in her second year at ANAM, concurrently undertaking a Bachelor of Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music University of Melbourne, under the tutelage of Adam Chalabi.
A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School (VCASS) under the tutelage of Michael Loftus-Hills, Hannah was the recipient of the Music Matinee Scholarship (2023) and the Margaret Schofield Memorial Scholarship (2024) and has performed as a soloist at the Melbourne Recital Centre in Edward Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro, op. 47 (2024), and Eugène Ysaÿe’s Sonata for Solo Violin No. 2 (2025).
As concertmaster, Hannah led the Melbourne String Ensemble on their international tour to Germany and the Czech Republic, premiering Australian composers’ works and she featured in Carl Vine’s Smith’s Alchemy as the solo violinist. She also performed Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in D minor, as well as Antonín Dvorak’s Violin Concerto in A Major. On the tour, she also performed with the Leipzig Jungedsinfonie and the Stuttgart Junges Kammer Orchestra. Hannah has also participated in Australian Youth Orchestra programs since 2022, and was appointed concertmaster of the Young Symphonists program and associate concertmaster of National Music Camp (2024).
With a growing love for chamber music, Hannah formed the Fritzi Trio in NSW in 2024, which was awarded first place in Musica Viva’s annual Strike a Chord chamber music competition, under the tuition of Airena Nakamura and Julian Smiles that same year. The trio featured in recital with Hayes Street Studio in 2025.
Hannah’s string sextet the Sturt Street Six won first place in Musical Society of Victoria’s Annual Chamber Competition, and first place at the annual VCASS chamber music completion, tutored by Josephine Vains and Monica Naselow. The ensemble regularly performs on 3MBS 103.5FM and at Scots Church, Melbourne.
Hannah has performed in masterclasses internationally, notably receiving tuition from Maxim Vengerov, Jack Liebeck, Suyeon Kang, Karl Heinrich Niebuhr, Caroline Widmann and Emily Sun.
Away from the violin, Hannah enjoys spending time at the Jazz Lab, baking burnt basque cheesecake, playing chess, drinking coffee, and a movie night in, watching Star Wars.
FROM: VIC. Lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation.
Hannah is supported by ANAM Syndicate donors Lyndsey Hawkins, Ingeborg McCullough, Marie Rowland.
Hannah currently plays an A.E. Smith 1958 Violin This violin is jointly owned by ANAM and Janet Holmes à Court AC. It was purchased for ANAM with the support of Christina Katsimbardis, and with donations from Gilbert George, George Georgiou, Peter Ingram, Maria Kailis and an anonymous benefactor.
Photo by Pia Johnson