German-American pianist Hannah Harnest, “excellent” (Concerto.net, Harry Rolnick), has concertized, amongst others, at the Philharmonic Hall (Munich), Wigmore Hall (London), Center for Jewish History and National Sawdust (New York), Harris Concert Hall (Aspen), and the Richard B. Fisher Center at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson). An invited resident at Songfest Los Angeles (2018/2019), Aspen Music Festival (2018), Aldeburgh Festival (2016), and Académie musicale de Villecroze (2013) – she was a semi-finalist at ‘Das Lied’ (Heidelberg) and the ‘Wigmore Hall Song Competition’ (London) in 2017. In October 2019, along with New Chamber Ballet and Mivos Quartet, Hannah performed at the “Strange Scenes Festival” at New York’s DiMenna Center, highlighting the chamber and vocal music by Wolfgang Rihm, and receiving enthusiastic mention in The New Yorker, New Music USA, and Seen & Heard International, amongst others. In November 2020, she received a major grant from the German Consulate in New York to establish the “Music for Thought Series,” collaborating with James Conlon, Leo Baeck Institute, 1014 New York, Nicholas Roerich Museum, Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized, and Banned Art, Stefan Wolpe Society, and NYU Steinhardt’s “Beethoven the Contemporary” Festival (covered by The Washington Post and OperaWire).

In March 2023, Hannah won 3rd prize, together with Australian soprano Alexandra Flood, at “Das Lied” in Heidelberg, Germany. In summer 2023, she worked as music director and coach at Seagle Festival.

Between 2017 and 2019, Hannah was a collaborative piano fellow at Bard College under the guidance of famed American soprano Dawn Upshaw, and between 2019 and 2021, she worked as a coach and staff pianist on the adjunct faculty within the vocal studies department at New York University.

In December 2024, Hannah was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano from the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of Andrew Harley.