Hannah Selin
Hannah Selin
Hannah Selin
Composition
Biography
Composer, violist and vocalist Hannah Selin juxtaposes acoustic instruments with electronics and field recordings to create striking and vibrant sound-spaces. Her music delves into the inner lives of sounds: shimmering sound-masses interact in unexpectedly moving ways, and instruments merge and separate to create sounds beyond their own.
Hannah’s music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles and soloists including Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, Chromic Duo, SPLICE Ensemble, CreArtBox Ensemble, Glass Clouds Ensemble, Voices of Ascension, Network for New Music, soprano Stephanie Lamprea, clarinetist Ford Fourqurean, and pianist Kathleen Supové. Her choral piece “Winter” from Four Mountain Songs won second prize and the most audience votes at the 2021 Balsys International Composition Competition, as well as the 2022 Red Jasper Award. Meditation on 2/5 for solo violin (scordatura) won a Merit Award at the 2021 Tribeca New Music Festival. Hannah was selected as a 2018 resident at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and her score for short film 222, directed by Delfine Paolini, was nominated for the 2018 Peer Raben Music Award at the Soundtrack Cologne Festival. Hannah has collaborated with choreographers Ellenore Scott (Broadway Dance Center) and Lydia Hance (Frame Dance Productions). Her sound installations have been featured at Metropolitan Gallery 250 in Philadelphia, PA and the Tower Hill School in Wilmington, DE, where she collaborated with visual and textile artist Anne Yoncha.
Hannah is co-founder and lead singer with the band GADADU, a cross-genre songwriting project. Together, the band has released three albums: The Weatherman Is Wrong (2022), And I See Night (2015) and Outer Song (2018). As a violist, Hannah performs with chamber ensembles and orchestras throughout the New York metropolitan area. She is a founding member of Violalia Duo and the Lost Marbles Trio. Hannah lives in New York City and holds a PhD in composition from Temple University.