The beautiful and talented Hannah Holgersson has lately established herself as one of Sweden’s most versatile singers, with a repertoire that extends from Baroque music by way of opera to the most recent avant-garde music. Hannah studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden, receiving diplomas in voice performance and pedagogy. In 2003 she made her opera début as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Hannah has further sung in The Beggar’s Opera for Läckö Castle Opera and West Side Story in concert performances with conductor Lawrence Rennes.
As a soloist, Hannah has performed with such groups as the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Opera Orchestra, the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble and regularly with both the International Percussion Ensemble Kroumata and with Eric Ericson Chamber Choir. Hannah has worked with such conductors as Alan Gilbert, Siegfried Köhler, Lawrence Renes, John Adams and Tan Dun. Hannah appears regularly on radio and television; she produces her own concerts both in Sweden and abroad, performing the previous season in China and Taiwan.
Through her varied work in opera, chamber music, church music, musicals and contemporary music, Hannah strives to explore every possible vocal colour and expression. Close collaboration has been frequent with composers such as Ingvar Lidholm, Steve Dobrogosz and Kjell Perder, John Adams and Steve Reich. In 2006 Hannah was a finalist in The Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition and also performed on Swedish Television together with Håkan Hagegård.
Among recent and coming engagements we find the role of Lan the Princess in the opera Tea by the acknowledged composer Tan Dun, who subsequently offered Hannah the leading part in a coming work planned by the composer. Hannah was the soprano soloist in Ligeti’s notoriously difficult Requiem, performed among other venues in Stockholm with conductor Alan Gilbert and in Tallinn under Tõnu Kaljuste. With Eric Ericson Chamber Choir Hannah was the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Vesprae Solennes de Confessore in The Stockholm Concert Hall and Bach’s B minor mass in Växjö. In the summer of 2008 Hannah performed the leading role in the world premiere of Euridike, a chamber opera commissioned and staged by Vadstenakademien.
For Hannah 2009 started as soprano soloist in spectacular Twelfth Night Concerts with The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, also broadcast by Swedish Television. Hannah was also chosen to sing a selection of Scandinavian romances before very prominent guests – royalties, president and high government officials – of both Finland and Sweden at the inauguration ceremony in the Swedish Parliament of “Märkesåret 1809”, the 200th anniversary of the division of Finland and Sweden. In March 2009 Hannah was the soprano soloist in Ligeti’s Requiem with The San Francisco Symphony and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. In 2010 she makes her UK debut in New Year concerts with Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Hannah Holgersson /Soprano
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