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BIOGRAPHY

Hannah is a London based soprano working across Europe as a soloist and ensemble singer, specialising in contemporary music. She graduated with Distinction in her MA from the Royal Academy of Music, where she was awarded the DipRam for her final recital, the Edlee Prize for Singing and the Edwin Samuel Dove Prize, selected from the whole of the Academy. From 2026 she is an Equilibrium Young Artist, sponsored by Barbara Hannigan. 

Whilst studying, she was a member of the Academy Song Circle and supported by the Josephine Baker Trust, as well as being chosen for the Glyndebourne Opera Lab. She also received mentorship from Barbara Hannigan. Before this, Hannah studied Music at Clare College Cambridge, where she graduated with a First and the Lester Brough Prize for Music. Recent highlights include her debut at the Salzburger Festspiele in Nono’s ‘Io Frammento del Prometeo’, a new horticultural opera with London Sinfonietta and EXAUDI, voice and synth works in Minoritensaal Graz, Brett Dean’s ‘Wolf Lieder’ alongside Riot Ensemble conducted by the composer, singing as a chorus member for English National Opera in ‘Dead Man Walking’, Mahler’s ‘Rückert-Lieder’ at Cadogan Hall with Ballet Nights, Mozart’s Requiem with National Youth Choir and Southbank Sinfonia and Fauré’s Requiem with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Hannah regularly sings with the Edward Grieg Kor in Norway, EXAUDI, The Facade Ensemble, The Carice Singers, and Cantando Admont in Austria.

 

Hannah Dienes-Williams

Hannah sang as a choral scholar in Clare College Choir and Head Chorister at Guildford Cathedral; where she sang as a soloist on multiple recordings. At Cambridge, she received art song coaching from Joseph Middleton as a Pembroke Lieder Scholar, sung multiple principal roles in opera productions, and won the Clare College Concerto Competition.

Future engagements include a tour of Germany featuring a premiere written for her, two new solo shows and returning to Salzburger Festspiele with Cantando Admont and PHACE. 

Hannah Dienes-Williams

TESTIMONIALS

​ “Hannah Dienes-Williams’ radiant soprano impresses again…she brings much emotional involvement and intelligent communication of the text” – Opera Today

 

“sensitively interpreted by soprano Hannah Dienes Williams” – Seen and Heard International 

REPERTOIRE

2024-25

St Matthew Passion - Bach

B Minor Mass - Bach

Magnificat - Bach 

Cantata - Birtwistle

Requiem - Brahms 

Wolf-Lieder - Brett Dean 

Requiem - Fauré

One Life Stand - Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Bright Travellers - Helen Grime

Harmoniemesse - Haydn

Symphony No. 4 - Mahler

Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot - Maxwell-Davies

Harawi - Messiaen

Great Mass in C Minor - Mozart 

Requiem - Mozart

Pierrot Lunaire - Schoenberg

The Heart’s Assurance - Tippett

Gloria - Vivaldi 

ROLES

Pierrot (Schoenberg) - 2025

Miss Donnithorne (Maxwell Davies) - 2024

Agnes (George Benjamin) - Scenes 2024

Mrs P (Nyman) - 2023

Pamina (Mozart) - 2023

Dido (Purcell) - 2022

Ino (Handel) - 2022

Adele (J Strauss) - 2022

Soprano in Denis and Katya (Phil Venables and Ted Huffman) - 2021

Susanna (Mozart) - 2021

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