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BIOGRAPHY

Hannah Sandison is a lyric mezzo-soprano. A graduate of the Royal College of Music and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - where she won the Governers’ Recital Prize – she has forged a significant career in theatres and on recital platforms, both in the U.K, and abroad. She is now taught by David Jones.

In Opera she has performed on stage with: the Glyndebourne Festival (Cockerel, The Cunning Little Vixen), English Touring Opera (Soprano Soloist, Membra Jesu Nostri’ Buxtehude, Drusilla, L’incoronazione di Poppea),  Mid-Wales Opera, and a toured semi-staged production with L’orchestre Mozart Geneve (Dorabella, Cosi fan tutte). In 2024 she will perform the role of Spring Beauty in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden with English Touring Opera.

 

On the concert platform she has recently performed the Bach Johannes-Passion in Fribourg, Switzerland with The Academy of Ancient Music; Handel’s Messiah at The Cadogan Hall, London; Verdi Requiem in Sloane Square, London, and an Opera Gala with The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra. In Dusseldorf she sang Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonelle, in London Mahler’s Second Symphony with the London Mahler Orchestra, and Handel’s Il Trionfo delTempo e del Disinganno with La Nuova Musica.

Hannah has also performed recitals in the London Handel Festival, the Oxford Lieder Festival, Opera Holland Park, and at venues such as: St Martin-in-the-Fields; the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, Pushkin House, and the Rachmaninov Hall, Moscow.

 

In July 2022, she commissioned and produced Green Spaces: A Celebration in Song - a concert of three new song cycles - for Opera Holland Park. As a part of this, she performed the world premiere of Of Nature’s Light by Mark-Anthony Turnage.

 

In addition to performing, she holds an MSc in Performance Psychology and is Founder of Sound Performance Psychology  She now balances her performance career with working with clients in performance psychology and therapy, and gives workshops and seminars in educational institutions, young artist programmes, and opera companies in the UK and abroad. She is on the senior management team of the charity SWAP’ra, which supports women and parents in Opera.

reviews

"Sandison’s voice was beautifully controlled and portrayed the pathos of the aria. In Handel’s Lascia ch’io Pianga, her clear, controlled voice was wonderfully accompanied by the orchestra, with a hint of harpsichord continuo emanating from the depths of the orchestra between the violas and cellos...The contrasting and haunting aria Song to the Moon by Dvorák was beautifully sung by Sandison and demonstrated her controlled upper registers." - Times of Malta

"...her thoughtful portrayal of Drusilla and a great voice show that she’s a name to watch." - Music in Durham

 

"Hannah Sandison's Alcestes had exemplary command of the words" - FT

"Drusilla – whose love for him Ottone ruthlessly exploits to further his reckless scheme for revenge – is sung with humane warmth by Hannah Sandison." - The Guardian

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repertoire

REPERTOIRE

Bellini Norma - Adalgisa
Bizet Carmen - Carmen
Britten The Beggar’s Opera - Polly Peachum
Britten Death in Venice - German Mother
Britten Gloriana - Elizabeth
Britten Peter Grimes - Auntie
Britten The Rape of Lucretia - Lucretia
Britten Turn of the Screw - Miss Jessel
Donizetti Anna Bolena - Giovanna Seymour

Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor - Alisa
Donizetti Maria Stuarda - Elizabetta
Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel - The Witch

Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana - Santuzza

Massenet Werther - Charlotte
Mozart Cosi Fan Tutte - Dorabella

Mozart Die Zauberflöte - Zweiter Dame, Dritte Dame

Puccini Madame Butterfly - Suzuki
Ravel L’heure Espagnol - Concepcion
Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Berta
Saints-saëns Samson et Dalila - Dalila
Strauss Der Rosenkavalier - Octavian
Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress - Baba the Turk
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin - Olga
Verdi Otello - Emilia
Verdi Il Trovatore - Azucenza
Verdi La Traviata - Flora

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