Hannah Cole, mezzo-sopran

Mezzo-soprano Hannah Cole attends Western University as the 2022 Clifford Von Kuster Faculty of Music National Scholarship recipient. She studies voice under the tutelage of Patricia Green, and studies piano as a secondary instrument with Marianna Chibotar-Rutkevich. In 2022, Hannah obtained her ARCT Diploma in both Performance Voice and Performance Piano through the Royal Conservatory of Music. She is the 3-time winner of NATS, the 2-time National Gold Medalist through the Royal Conservatory of Music and the Canadian Conservatory of Music, and has been a top prize-winner through ORMTA and OMFA for voice, piano, and musical theatre numerous times. Most recently, she was the winner of the NATS Great Lakes Region competition, receiving the Jon Vickers scholarship for most promising in her division. Hannah was a Young Artist at La Musica Lirica in Novafeltria Italy, where she studied and performed the role of Meg Page in Verdi's Falstaff, and was a Featured Soloist in the opera gala and academy concerts. Additional recent engagements include Cenerentola u.s. in La Cenerentola (UWOpera), Young Soloist with London Community Orchestra, Featured Soloist in UWOpera Gala, Hannah After in As One (Nuova) and Contralto in Four Note Opera (L’Institut Canadien D’Art Vocal). This past summer, Hannah was one of 19 vocalists from around the world accepted into Tafelmusk Baroque Summer Institute where she did extensive study of early music performance practices.