Hannah Holman

Cello Soloist

November 4, 2000
April 20, 1996

Hannah Holman is currently assistant principal cello of both the Richmond Symphony and the American Sinfonietta . She began her professional career in England, playing with the English String Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra amongst others. On returning to the USA in 1994 she became principal cello with the Jackson Symphony Orchestra and assistant principal cello with the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra and Michigan Chamber Orchestra. She has served on the faculties of the Michigan State University Community Music School and Virginia Union University.  Hannah is a member of two chamber ensembles, the Beaumont Piano Trio and the Quadrivium Players, who are in residence at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Hannah studied first with her grandmother in Jackson and Louis Potter in East Lansing, and then proceeded to the Eastman School of Music and Michigan State University where she completed her Bachelor of Music as a student of Owen Carman. While at Eastman, Hannah was a featured soloist at the First World Cello Congress in Washington DC.  She obtained her Master of Music with Fritz Magg at the New EnglandConservatory of Music in 1993.

She has performed many solo and chamber recitals, both in the USA andUnited Kingdom. Concerto performances include the Elgar Concerto with Jackson Symphony, the Dvorak Concerto in Georgia and Beethoven's "Triple" Concerto in Georgia and Virginia. She also appears regularly at the Bellingham Festival of Music in collaboration with her American Sinfonietta colleagues.