Hannah Pinhorn
Performance - Voice
Office: TC 416
Email: hpinhorn@uwo.ca
Soprano, Hannah Pinhorn, is a doctoral candidate in the final year of her studies at Western University’s Don Wright Faculty of Music. Through her post-secondary studies, she developed a passion for art song repertoire, particularly French Mélodie, contemporary American Art Song, and the songs of living LGBTQ+ composers. This passion remains the driving force of her ongoing research exploring the process of vocal repertoire selection through the lens of information-seeking behaviour.
Hannah holds a Bachelor of Music from Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and both a Master of Music and Master of Library Information Sciences from Western University in London, Ontario. Throughout her time in academia, Hannah has been the recipient of several scholarships; most notably, the London Opera Guild Scholarship in 2020 and the Lily F. W. Chiu Scholarship in 2021, which is awarded to the entering MLIS student with the highest academic standing. She is also very grateful to be a recipient of a Western Graduate Research Scholarship from 2022-present in support of her doctoral studies.
While the majority of Hannah’s performance experience consists of art song recitals and concert works, she has also performed lead roles on the operatic stage. At Memorial University, she played the role of Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte) in scenes with the opera workshop program, and covered roles such as Sandrina (Un avvertimento ai gelosi), First Lady (Die Zauberflöte), and Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito). At Western University, she played the role of Serpetta (La finta giardiniera) in 2019, Lady Billows (Albert Herring) in 2024, and looks forward to singing the role of Fiordiligi in the upcoming Fall 2025 production of Cosi fan tutte. In January 2026, Hannah will also perform as part of the chorus in a production of Neil Weisensel and Michael Cavanagh’s one-act comic opera City Workers in Love.
Hannah has served as a graduate student representative (2022-2023), events coordinator (2023-2024), and president (2024-2025) of Western’s SNATS chapter. She is a proud member of NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing), CAML (Canadian Association of Music Libraries), and ML-STEP (Music Librarian Students and Emerging Professionals). When she is not singing, writing, or collecting data for her research, Hannah can be found cross stitching, cooking, listening to ABBA, or spending time with her cat, Mister.
