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 About
Hannah Lash has had her music performed widely in such venues as the Chicago Art Institute, Tanglewood Music Center, Harvard University, and on the American Opera Project's stage in New York City. She has received commissions from The Howard Hanson Foundation's Commissioning Fund and Case Western Reserve's University Circle Wind Ensemble, among others. Lash has received numerous honors and prizes, including the Barnard Rogers Prize in Composition, the Bernard and Rose Sernoffsky Prize in Composition, and Honorable Mention in BMI's International Women's Music Commission. Her recent orchestral work, Leave, was selected to be performed by Harvard University’s Composer’s Orchestra.
A performance of Lash's song cycle "From Five Tzu-Yeh Songs" was acclaimed by the Chicago Sun Times: "Lash's songs were...worldly, sending Bentley [the soprano] into huge, perilous leaps against austere accompaniment from Barbara Butler's trumpet and Michael Burritt's percussion. At times, Butler's muted trumpet took on a film noirish quality floating behind bentley's often-whispered words like a distant breeze rustling across rain-soaked streets."
In addition to performances of her music in the USA, Lash's music is known internationally. In April of 2008, her string quartet "Four Still" was performed in Kyev in the Ukraine's largest international new music festival: "Musical Premieres of the Season," curated by Carson Cooman.
Lash's composition teachers have included Augusta Read Thomas, Robert Morris, Steven Stucky, Bernard Rands, and Julian Anderson. She completed her undergraduate degree in composition from the Eastman School of Music. Currently she is a candidate for the Ph.D in composition at Harvard University.
Also a concert harpist, Lash performs on her harp frequently. She is particularly committed to playing and premiering new music, and such composers as Robert Morris have written pieces expressly for her. She has formed a harp and saxophone duet with acclaimed saxophonist Eliot Gattegno; together Lash and Gattegno have commissioned new works from composers including Anthony Cheung and Marcos Balter.
Hannah Lash received a Performance Certificate in harp at the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2008 and is currently pursuing her Artist Diploma, also at the Cleveland Institute of Music where she is a student of Yolanda Kondonassis. She has additional studies at the Salzedo Harp Colony with Alice Chalifoux.
NewsMarch 29, 8:00 pm, New York, NY
Premiere of "Heat-Sync: Centaur" by the New York Miniaturist Ensemble
April 10, 7:30 pm, Cleveland, Ohio
Solo harp recital at Cleveland Institute of Music's Mixon Hall
April 17, 12:00 pm, Alfred, NY
Bergren Forum Lecture "New Angles for the Harp" on contemporary music for the harp
April 19, 8:00 pm, Kyev, Ukrain
Performance of "Four Still" by the Ukrainian Quartet in the international festival "Musical Premieres of the Season"
May 11, 2 pm, Cleveland, OH
Solo harp recital at Judson Manor
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