Hanna is an independent curator, researcher, writer, and producer specialising in experimental music and sound art.

She is co-curator of award-winning ensemble, The Hermes Experiment, and co-founder of Alternative Classical, a consultancy, which creates and promotes new approaches to Western classical music. Hanna also currently sits on the Board of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik [Berlin Society for New Music], with which she has written a radio show and co-curated a festival exploring the intersection of experimental music and blockchain.

She regularly writes for the German new music magazine Positionen and co-creates a monthly radio show on Warsaw’s Radio Kapitał, morning stories. Alongside writing about music and sound, she also writes on topics related to feminism, social movements, and Eastern Europe, and has written for Arts of the Working Class, Open Democracy, jungeWelt, New Internationalist, and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, among others.

Hanna’s current artistic research focus is on the relationship between the arts and social movements. She has presented her work at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin), CTM Festival (Berlin), Copenhagen University, Freie Universität (Berlin) / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Maastricht University, as well as for DICE Berlin and the eavesdropping symposium. She was also part of transmediale festival’s 2022 Research Group ‘Rendering Research’, as part of which she published a text on looping arts, research, and the streets.

In her work, Hanna is also exploring alternative forms of collaboration and collectivity, often by working with ensembles. She is currently working with Ensemble Extrakte and the Harmonic Space Orchestra, both based in Berlin. She was working with the European initiative Sounds Now on their Curating Diversity network and she continues to work in Jordan with the Amman Chamber Orchestra (formerly Etihad Chamber Orchestra) and the Amman Institute of Performing Arts as a consultant, teacher and project manager.

Past project highlights include producing and managing two tours of contemporary opera to the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg with the London Chamber Orchestra (George Benjamin’s Lessons of Love and Violence) and Shadwell Opera (Oliver Knussen’s Where the Wild Things Are, also performed at the Alexandra Palace Theatre in London), both of which were part of British Council’s UK-Russia Year of Music, tour management of the Street Orchestra of London, a pop-up orchestra, around London and the Midlands, as well as tours with the World Orchestra for Peace (UNESCO Artist for Peace) to Italy and Germany.

Hanna is a graduate from Cambridge University, where she read History, and she also has an MA in Global Studies from the Humboldt University in Berlin. Born in Poland, and having spent many years in London, she is now based in Berlin.

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