With a “bright, ideally-focused sound, allied to a probing expressive intelligence” (Chicago Classical Review) Hannah De Priest is a fearless performer of a wide range of lyric soprano repertoire. Especially renowned for her “masterful” (Olyrix) singing of Baroque repertoire, the young soprano has made numerous important debuts in recent seasons, including her Kennedy Center debut (Opera Lafayette: Serpina, La servante maîtresse) and European debut at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival (Gilde, L’amazzone corsara). The Boston Globe named her “unmistakably the breakout artist” of the 2023 Boston Early Music Festival, at which she performed as a soloist in multiple concerts and two opera productions.
Hannah has earned recognition at numerous important competitions, winning 2nd Prize at the 2021 International Cesti Competition for Baroque Singing. She has been a finalist in the London Handel Competition (2024), American Handel Aria Competition (2021), Le Concours Corneille (2019), Audrey Rooney Bach Competition (2020), and the Bethlehem Bach Competition (2021). |
A longtime resident of Chicago and an art song fanatic, Hannah is thrilled to make her CAIC debut with two programs at the 2024 Collaborative Works Festival. Later this fall, the soprano makes her Ars Lyrica Houston debut for a program of Bach and Hasse and performs cantatas by Graupner and Bach with Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. In October, Hannah will record her debut solo album of French and Italian baroque music with Les Délices. Next spring she returns to the storied Boston Early Music Festival as Livia in Keiser’s singspiel Octavia before touring and recording The Dragon of Wantley with the Festival’s orchestra in Europe.