HAHN, Mari

Professor Mari Hahn has been on the UAA Music Department faculty since 2002. She received her Doctorate of Musical Arts and Masters of Music from the University of British Columbia, and her BM Performance degree from the University of Toronto. She also studied at the Scuola Musicale in Milan, Italy. She was a two-time recipient of the prestigious Killam Fellowship at UBC, and founded the chamber opera company Opera Breve in Vancouver, British Columbia.

She remains active as a versatile performer of opera, oratorio and art song. Performances include the soprano solo in Poulenc’s Gloria and Bach’s St. John Passion with the Anchorage Concert Chorus, Gorecki’s Third Symphony with the Anchorage Civic Orchestra, and the Defiant Requiem with conductor Murry Sidlin. She has performed in numerous solo and chamber recitals, including the Anchorage Festival of Music, and the UAA Early Music Ensemble. She can be heard on the album Soundscapes of Restoration with music by climate activist composer Matthew Burtner.