West Wight Arts Association

As a soloist, Hannah Marcinowicz was a chosen artist for the Tillett Trust Young Artists' Platform, which led to her Wigmore Hall debut in 2008. In 2007, she gave a recital at the Royal Festival Hall as an award-winner of the Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, and in 2008, she gave a Park Lane Group Young Artists’ recital at the Purcell Room, where she premiered a new work by Giles Swayne to universal critical acclaim. Following the success of this recital, the Park Lane Group invited her to give a further recital at Wigmore Hall in April 2009.

A former Purcell School pupil, Hannah graduated with First Class Honours from the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied both saxophone and clarinet with Richard Addison. Whilst there she received a Foundation Award and the Henry Ellice Lees Prize. Since leaving the Academy, she has received awards from the Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, Leverhulme Trust, Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Craxton Memorial Trust, which enabled her to continue her studies at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Cergy-Pontoise in Paris with international soloist, Jean-Yves Fourmeau. In June 2008, she was awarded the prestigious Médaille d'Or (Gold Medal) from the Conservatoire for both Saxophone Performance and Chamber Music.

Hannah has worked with a number of top UK orchestras, including the London Symphony, Philharmonia, BBC Concert, London Philharmonic and London Concert Orchestras, as well as the Northern Sinfonia. In September 2005, at the age of 22, Hannah played the bass clarinet and tenor saxophone solo in Vaughan-Williams' Sixth Symphony, under Sir Colin Davis, at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall. The concert was broadcast live on BBC 2 and BBC Radio 3 and she received rave reviews for her performance in the national press.

In June 2006, Hannah recorded two “Classic Experience” albums with the pianist Richard Shaw for Cramer Music Limited. She is currently a soloist on the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital Scheme, and a recipient of Making Music’s Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, leading to engagements throughout the UK.

Highlights this season include a live Radio 3 broadcast, Classic FM broadcast, numerous solo recitals and concerto engagements, including a performance of the Glazunov Concerto with the European Union Chamber Orchestra at St. George’s Bristol.

For Hannah’s latest news and forthcoming engagements, please visit her website: www.hannahsax.com