Hannah’s Music at Wien Modern
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Three of Hannah's pieces will be featured at this year's Wien Modern. The Austrian premiere of ‘He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing’ (2024) will be performed by ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, with Vimbayi Kaziboni, at the opening concert on Thursday 30 October. The piece is inspired by both Schumann's Symphony No. 2 and Mozart's Jupiter, and the programme will also include works by George E. Lewis and Jessie Cox. Here’s a link to more information.
Later on in the festival, which is the biggest for contemporary arts music in Austria and one of the largest of its kind worldwide, International Contemporary Ensemble and Webern Ensemble Neue Musik will present ‘shouting forever into the receiver’ on Sunday 23 November. This 2022 work explores Antonio Benítez-Rojo’s notion of the ‘Plantation Machine’, and is the title track of Hannah’s recent debut portrait album released in June 2025. Works by George E. Lewis and Chaya Czernowin will also be performed, all conducted by Clement Power. See more here.
On Friday 28 November, Mivos Quartet will perform ‘Glances / I Don’t Belong Here:’. Hannah’s string quartet, written in 2019, is a collection of seven miniatures inspired by British-Guyanese artist Ingrid Pollard’s ‘Pastoral Interludes’, a series of photographs in which her Black British subjects are posed in the Lake District, the epitome of rural Britain, exploring the notion of alienation and ‘otherness’ in such spaces. More information about the concert, which will also include works by Arnold Schönberg and Tomasz Skweres, can be found here.