Hannah Amann

Cello

Hannah Amann was born in November 2001 in Vorarlberg. At the age of 5 she received her first cello lessons from Sarolta Bobok at the Dornbirn Music School. She has been living 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 September 2019, she has been studying in the class of Prof. Stefan Kropfitsch, also at MDW. Hannah Amann attended master classes with Stephan Forck, Wen-Sinn Yang, Reinhard Latzko, Gustav Rivinius, Jérôme Pernoo, Julian Steckel and Kian Soltani, among others.

She has gained experience as a soloist several times with the Dornbirn Youth Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the MDW Orchestra and the Franz Schmidt Chamber Orchestra.
Hannah Amann is a multiple prize winner at Prima la musica state and national competitions, both as a soloist and in chamber music. With her cello quartet “Die Kolophonistinnen” she is a prize winner of the “BePhilharmonic- Competition” of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 2016 and was featured in the intermission film of the New Year’s Concert 2017. In addition, the quartet performed in the Schubertsaal of the Vienna Konzerthaus in the fall of 2018 as prize winners of the “Musica Juventutis” competition. Together with her ensemble, a concert tour to Chile followed in January 2019, as well as winning 2nd place at the Fanny Mendelssohn Promotion Prize in Hamburg.
Since 2018 she has been a member of the Yehudi Menuhin organization “Live Music Now”.
In the summer of 2019, Hannah Amann received the sponsorship award from the Radolfzell Academy as part of a master class taught by Gustav Rivinius. Hannah is part of the Jeunesse’s “Featured Ensemble 2020/21” and released her debut CD with her quartet in spring 2020. As part of Caritas Solidaris, she played Schubert’s String Quintet with Emmanuel Tjeknavorian and Julia Hagen, among others, in the Mozart Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus. She performed solo as well as chamber music at the Musikverein Klagenfurt at the Wörthersee Classics Festival 2021.

In spring 2021 she won the 1st prize at the international competition “Musica Goritiensis” in Italy.
Hannah Amann is a scholarship holder at the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein, where she participates in the academy’s intensive weeks and activities.
She was part of the 2022 Summer Academy of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, with whom she is also a substitute.
Since 2023 Hannah is an academist of the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna.