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Hannah Sloane, Cello
Hannah Sloane enjoys an international career centered upon chamber music. She has played in festivals throughout the UK, Europe and North America, and is a member of the Eusebius Quartet. Formed in 2016, the Eusebius Quartet were finalists in the 2018 Royal Overseas League, the quartet has been in residence at Lewes Chamber Music Festival, Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival and Fitzrovia Arts Festival, as well as regularly performing live on BBC Radio 3. The quartet’s debut album, featuring Korngold Piano Quintet with Alasdair Beatson, recorded in lockdown in 2020, will be released this year by SOMM Recordings.
Hannah is also a sought-after freelance cellist and regularly plays with the London Chamber Orchestra and was honoured to play with Orchestre Romantique et Révolutionnaire for their Beethoven Symphony cycle at Carnegie Hall in New York.
As a concerto soloist has played with several orchestras in the UK and USA. With the Juilliard Orchestra in 2010, she played Tan Dun’s ‘Concerto for Six’ at Alice Tully Hall with the composer conducting. Hannah studied at the Juilliard School in New York, graduating with Scholastic Distinction in 2013. In 2012, she was the recipient of a French American Exchange Grant from the Carla Bruni Sarkozy Foundation, which took her to study at the Paris Conservatoire.
Hannah teaches cello and chamber music at Junior Royal Academy of Music and Alleyn’s School, as well as coaching on South London Youth Orchestra. She has directed courses for Junior MusicWorks, London and has worked as a musician-workshop leader on London Chamber Orchestra’s flagship Music Junction outreach project.
Hannah plays a Piattellini cello dating 1780, kindly on loan to her from the Stark family and a contemporary Paul Sadka bow.