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 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.

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
