Biography

Hannah Amann was born in Austria in 2001. At the age of five, she received her first cello lessons from Sarolta Bobok at the music school in Dornbirn. She has lived in Vienna since 2014, where she received lessons from Maria Grün at the Johann Sebastian Bach Music School and in the preparatory course at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Since 2019, she has been studying in the class of Prof. Stefan Kropfitsch, also at the MDW. 

Hannah attended master classes with Josef Luitz, Stephan Forck, Wen-Sinn Yang, Reinhard Latzko, Gustav Rivinius, Jérôme Pernoo and Julian Steckel, among others. She also receives a scholarship from the Liechtenstein International Music Academy and regularly takes part in the intensive music weeks and activities of the academy. 

Hannah has won multiple prizes at "Prima la musica" state and national competitions, both as a soloist and in chamber music formation. She was a prizewinner of the "BePhilharmonic Competition" of the Vienna Philharmonic in 2016 with her cello quartet Die Kolophonistinnen and was seen in the intermission film of the 2017 New Year's Concert. In addition, the quartet played in the Schubert Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus in autumn 2018 as a prizewinner of the "Musica Juventutis" competition. Together with her ensemble, a concert tour to Chile followed in 2019 and she won the 2^nd place in the "Fanny Mendelssohn Prize" in Hamburg. Also in 2019, she received the sponsorship award of the Radolfzell Academy as part of a master class by Gustav Rivinius. In 2021, she won the 1^st prize at the international competition "Musica Goritiensis" in Italy. 

Hannah was able to gain experience as a soloist several times with the Dornbirn Youth Symphony Orchestra, the MDW Orchestra and the Franz Schmidt Chamber Orchestra. She has been a member of the Yehudi Menuhin organization Live Music Now since 2018. She is part of the Jeunesse Featured Ensemble 2020/21 and released her debut CD with her quartet in spring 2020. As part of the Caritas Solidaris, she played Schubert's string quintet with Emmanuel Tjeknavorian and Julia Hagen in the Mozart Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus. She performed as a soloist and chamber musician at the Klagenfurt Music Association at the Wörthersee Classics Festival 2021.