Hannah Sandison is a lyric mezzo-soprano. A graduate of the Royal College of Music and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - where she won the Governers’ Recital Prize – she has forged a significant career in theatres and on recital platforms, both in the U.K, and abroad. She is now taught by David Jones.

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In Opera she has performed on stage with: the Glyndebourne Festival (Cockerel, The Cunning Little Vixen), English Touring Opera (Soprano Soloist, Membra Jesu Nostri’ Buxtehude, Drusilla, L’incoronazione di Poppea),  Mid-Wales Opera, and a toured semi-staged production with L’orchestre Mozart Geneve (Dorabella, Cosi fan tutte). In 2024 she will perform the role of Spring Beauty in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden with English Touring Opera.

 

On the concert platform she has recently performed the Bach Johannes-Passion in Fribourg, Switzerland with The Academy of Ancient Music; Handel’s Messiah at The Cadogan Hall, London; Verdi Requiem in Sloane Square, London, and an Opera Gala with The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra. In Dusseldorf she sang Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonelle, in London Mahler’s Second Symphony with the London Mahler Orchestra, and Handel’s Il Trionfo delTempo e del Disinganno with La Nuova Musica.

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Hannah has also performed recitals in the London Handel Festival, the Oxford Lieder Festival, Opera Holland Park, and at venues such as: St Martin-in-the-Fields; the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, Pushkin House, and the Rachmaninov Hall, Moscow.

 

In July 2022, she commissioned and produced Green Spaces: A Celebration in Song - a concert of three new song cycles - for Opera Holland Park. As a part of this, she performed the world premiere of Of Nature’s Light by Mark-Anthony Turnage.

 

In addition to performing, she holds an MSc in Performance Psychology and is Founder of Sound Performance Psychology  She now balances her performance career with working with clients in performance psychology and therapy, and gives workshops and seminars in educational institutions, young artist programmes, and opera companies in the UK and abroad. She is on the senior management team of the charity SWAP’ra, which supports women and parents in Opera.