Hannah Morrison

Soprano Hannah Morrison has made a major impact beginning in the mid-2010s in performances of Baroque music led by John Eliot Gardiner, Paul Agnew, William Christie, Masaaki Suzuki, and other top conductors in the field. Of Icelandic and Scottish background, Morrison was born in The Netherlands. She was interested in music from an early age and took lessons on the oboe, the recorder, and the piano; she also liked ballet and choral singing. Morrison attended the Maastricht Academy of Music, studying voice and piano, and graduating in 2003. She went on to earn degrees at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne (where she has made her home), working with Barbara Schlick, and at the London Guildhall School of Music. Morrison took master classes with Evelyn Tubb, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Matthias Goerne, as well as historical performance specialists Andrew Lawrence-King and Barthold Kuijken. Recording an album of Purcell songs with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants as early as 2007, Morrison has often toured with that group. Morrison has also given lieder recitals with pianist Lara Jones, and she appeared on several volumes of Hyperion's complete edition of Mendelssohn's songs. In the 2010s she has given concerts with Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan, the Musik Podium Stuttgart under Frieder Bernius, the Beethoven Orchester Bonn under Stefan Blunier, and with the Collegium Vocale Ghent under Philippe Herreweghe, among other major historical-performance groups. She made her debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2013, performing in Handel's Alexander's Feast. Morrison's recording schedule has become consistently busier in the mid-2010s, and the year 2017 saw three recordings on which she was featured: two Bach recordings with Gardiner and an album of Monteverdi madrigals with Les Arts Florissants under Paul Agnew. In 2015 and 2017 Morrison also gave voice-and-lute recitals with Sören Leupold.
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