Hannah Andrusier is a soprano completing her Postgraduate Diploma under the tutelage of Elizabeth Ritchie at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where she is generously supported by The José and Rafton Smallwood Award and the Eva Turner Award for Sopranos.

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Recent and future engagements include Mrs Julian (Britten’s Owen Wingrave, RNCM), Aloès (Chabrier’s L’Étoile, RNCM), Young Artist and Chorus (Ambroise’s Hamlet, Opera Shorts, Buxton International Festival), Chorus (Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette, Bergen Philarmonic, Edvard Grieg Kor), Soloist and Chorus (Monteverdi Vespers, SienAgosto), George’s Marvellous Music (Sixth Sense Jazz, The Grand Junction), Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ (Steve Reich Festival, Hallé St Peters).

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Hannah appears every season at the Royal Albert Hall as a singer and actor (My Great Orchestral Adventure) and with the London Symphony Orchestra where she sings in and co-presents Discovery concerts at the Barbican. She has also performed with the Hallé, the CBSO and at the Holywell Music Room. This love of education work led her to work on the RNCM Children’s Opera, The Jungle Book, where she volunteered in local schools and performed as Mother Wolf. She will also be joining Clonter Opera later this season to work on their education projects.

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Hannah is a keen song recitalist and oratorio singer, recent performances including Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonnelle (Somerville College and The Burford Singers), Bach’s B Minor Mass (Pennine Music Festival), Strauss’ Ophelia Lieder (David Owen Norris Smallwood Lecture, RNCM), Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson (RNCM Concert Hall) as well as numerous concerts and recitals as a member of the RNCM Songsters.

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Hannah read French as a choral scholar at Somerville College, Oxford, where she gave over 100 performances. She appeared in lead roles at the Oxford Playhouse, at the Edinburgh Fringe with The Oxford Gargoyles, and she toured India with her College choir. Notable performances include Bach St John Passion soloist with The Instruments of Time and Truth and soloist on SCC album Dawn of Grace (5* BBC Music). As a violinist, she studied with Sheila Nelson and Clare Thompson, and spent many years playing and coaching chamber music. 

During postgraduate study Hannah was awarded the Eva Turner Award for Sopranos and a Help Musicians Sybil Tutton Opera Award and was generously supported by the South Square Trust in the first year of her Master’s. She held the Chloe and Helen Mortar Choral Scholarship as an undergraduate.