Hailed for her “burnished vocalism and enchanting manner” (South Florida Classical review), soprano Hannah Penzner is drawn to choral music, opera, and concert work alike. She has performed in operas such as Street Scene by Kurt Weill as Mrs. Fiorentino, as the soprano soloist in Orff's Carmina Burana and Mendelssohn's Elijah, and extensively in professional choirs across the country such as Seraphic Fire and Conspirare.

 

A graduate of the Frost School of Music, Hannah portrayed Mrs Fiorentino in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene and Mamah Borthwick in the world premiere of Stained Glass by Shawn Crouch with libretto by Dana Kaufmann, in collaboration with Frost Opera Theater.  She was the soprano soloist for Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Arizona Philharmonic and Quartz Ensemble, Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Robert Kapilow’s Green Eggs and Ham with the Frost School of Music, as well as Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasilieres No. 5 with Celli at Berkeley. Hannah has performed solos in Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, and Vaughn-Williams’ Serenade to Music with the Frost Chorale, conducted by Amanda Quist.

Hannah performed in the world premiere for Frank La Rocca's Requiem for the Forgotten in collaboration with the Benedict XVI Institute. A member of GRAMMY®-winning ensemble Tonality for several years, Hannah can be heard on the soundtracks of movies such as Warner Brothers’s Space Jam: A New Legacy and Netflix’s Spiderhead, as well as on Tonality’s albums Sing About It and America Will Be. Hannah attended the Spoleto Festival USA as a Vocal Fellow in the summer of 2024, where she sang with the Spoleto Festival Chorus in Haydn’s Creation and The Heart Starts Singing, a choral concert with Joe Miller.

 

In the 2024-2025 season, Hannah participated in Fifth Avenue Presbyterian's concert series - performing pieces such as In The Beginning by Aaron Copland, Handel's Messiah, the Martin Mass for Double Choir, and the Brahms Requiem. Hannah is also a frequent sub at Trinity Wall Street. In December she joined Seraphic Fire on their Christmas tour, traveling to various locations in Florida before ending in Grafton, Vermont. In the summer Hannah returned to the Spoleto Festival USA once again, performing in the chorus of Massenet's Thaïs, in the chorus and as a soloist in the Bach B-minor mass, and in a choral concert conducted by Joe Miller. She also attended the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival through the Yale School of Music in the Chamber Choir workshop.

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Hannah holds a Master’s of Music from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami in Vocal Performance and a Bachelor’s of Music from the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach in Vocal Performance. She now resides in New York City, where she can be heard every Sunday at Fifth Ave Presbyterian Churchas a member of the professional choir.