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A native of Geneva, NY, cellist Hannah Collins has given solo and chamber music performances at festivals throughout Europe and North America including Kneisel Hall, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Creative Dialogue Workshop (US), Orford Centre d’arts (CA), NJO (NL), Aldeburgh Festival (UK) and Musique de Chambre à Giverny (FR). She recently completed a graduate degree at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and also holds degrees in biomedical engineering and music from Yale University. Her teachers have included Stefan Reuss, Ole Akahoshi, Aldo Parisot, Jan-Ype Nota, and Michel Strauss.
A strong advocate and instigator of new music, Hannah spent 2009-2011 in France and The Netherlands researching and performing modern solo cello repertoire with support from the Presser Foundation. She was the winner of De Link Competition 2010 for contemporary interpretation and has recently commissioned and premiered several new solo works including Monologue (2011) for speaking, singing and acting cellist, the result of a year-long collaboration with Dutch composer Patrick van Deurzen.
Hannah is also an active performer of early music, having served as the lead continuo player on a 2009 Naxos recording of the Bach and Mendelssohn Magnificats with Yale Schola Cantorum. She is currently a visiting fellow at the Yale School of Music where she is studying 17th and 18th c. chamber music with Baroque violinist Robert Mealy.
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