Hannah Carr

Hannah's interest in music began with writing pop songs on the piano for no one to hear. She was chorister and head girl in a cathedral choir for six years in her native Limerick, Ireland while still in school, and here she developed a love of choral and sacred music. She then took her undergraduate degree in Music and French with a composition major under Donnacha Dennehy at Trinity College Dublin, where she cofounded and conducted the official Music  Department Chamber Choir, Campanile Consort and won the Gerard Victory prize(first prize) for her composition portfolio. She went on to take an advanced diploma in Choral Conducting with Peter Erdei at the Kodály Institute in Hungary and was given a presentation upon completion for outstanding academic acheivement. She has won various prizes for piano performance and received the highest bursary prize awarded by the Irish Arts Council to an individual for travel and training in both 2009 and 2010. She has performed in classical music as an organist, pianist and singer, as well as in groups from Traditional Irish music to Funk and other popular styles.