Photograph by Ciaran Whyte

Hannah Shields has performed throughout the United States, both as a soloist and a chamber musician. She appeared as a soloist in Carnegie Hall, under the baton of Itzhak Perlman, and has per­formed in such venues as Weill Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Metro­po­litan Museum and the Seattle Opera House. She has collab­orated with many distinguished artists includ­ing Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zuckerman, Andre Emelianoff, Barbara Stein Mallow, and Myung-Wha Chung. A laureate of the YKAA Interna­tional Piano Com­peti­tion, the Fite Young Artist Com­pe­ti­tion, and the Kosciuszko Chopin Com­pe­tition, she has participated in numerous music festivals, including the Yellow Barn Music Festi­val, the Taos School of Music, the Banff Cham­ber Music Festival, and the Great Lakes Cham­ber Music Festival. She recently performed with violinists Yura Lee, in Seoul, Korea, and Robin Scott, in Weill Hall.

Ms. Shields studied with Daniel Shapiro at the Cleveland Institute of Music where she received the Arthur Loesser prize in piano performance and the Carmen Mihalache Dimulescu Memorial Award for outstanding collaborative achievement. She did graduate study with Claude Frank at Yale University, and Vivian Hornik Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory. Her chamber music coaches include Paul Katz, Lawrence Lesser, Pamela Frank, Kim Kashkashian, Donald Weilerstein, Lucy Chapman, Joel Krosnick and Robert Mann. She currently lives in Boston, MA; and in her free time she enjoys photography and South Indian cooking.