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The English soprano, Hannah Ely, studied Music at University of Manchester (2008-2011); and obtained her Postgraduate Diploma from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (2012-2013). She completed her Masters in Advanced Vocal Ensemble Studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland in 2018. She studied with Yvonne Kenny during her studies in London and continues with Dame Emma Kirkby and Deborah York.
Hannah Ely has worked as Violin Teacher at Dorset Music Service; Former Violin Teacher at Wanstead Music School in London; Piano Teacher at Cranbrook School in Ilford (2012-2014); Singing Teacher at St Dunstan's College in London (2015-2016); Singing Teacher at The Conservatoire, Blackheath in London(since January 2014).
Hannah Ely has been active as a freelance soprano & pianist since 2008. She made her opera debut at the Brighton Early Music Festival in 2015 as Sirena in La Liberazione di Ruggiero by Francesca Caccini, returning as a soloist in Blow’s Venus and Adonis and Monteverdi’s Il Ballo delle Ingrate. She has also played both witch roles in Dido & Aeneas with the Erebus Ensemble and Ensemble Schirokko. Her Wigmore Hall debut in 2019 was with Dame Emma Kirkby's ensemble, Dowland Works, with whom she performs lute songs around the UK.
Based in Brussels, Hannah Ely specialises in the Renaissance and Baroque and has performed as a soloist in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and around the UK with early music ensembles including Collegium Vocale Gent, Il Gardellino, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Vox Luminis, Ensemble Schirokko Hamburg, Yorkshire Bach Soloists, Ensemble Alia Mens, Monteverdi String Band and Camerata Øresund, working with directors Philippe Herreweghe, Alex Potter, Steven Devine, Peter Spissky, Oliver Webber, Olivier Spilmont, Lionel Meunier and Peter Seymour. She also enjoys performing with a range of ensembles around Europe, including Collegium Vocale Gent (Director: Philippe Herreweghe) (BE), Huelgas Ensemble (BE), Gli Angeli Genève (Director: Stephan MacLeod) (CH), InVocare (CH), Siglo de Oro (UK), Musica Secreta (UK), Vox Luminis (Director: Lionel Meunier) (BE), and The Tallis Scholars (Director: Peter Phillips) (UK).
Hannah Ely is the founder and artistic director of Fieri Consort (UK) specialising in Italian and English 16th and 17th century secular music, with whom she recorded an album of solos and duets by Barbara Strozzi and her contemporaries as well as five other albums of consort music and two new commissions. Fieri will collaborate with Camerata Øresund and Peter Spissky to make a recording of Christoph Graupner Christmas Cantatas in 2025 on the Ramée label (Outhere).
In 2023, Hannah Ely joined the American Bach Soloists Academy to perform J.S. Bach's Magnificat in D major BWV 243 as well as various cantatas in San Francisco. Selected for the Handel House Talent young artist scheme in 2018, she remains a part of the family and performs regular recitals in that historic London venue.
Over recent years, Hannah Ely has enjoyed exploring diminutions, ornaments and accompaniment practices, most recently with Oliver Webber and the Monteverdi String Band, with whom she has made a recording on the Resonus Classics label - released 2024. She is one half of Accenti - a duo with viola da gamba player Harry Buckoke. Together they explore the performance practices of madrigals for solo voice including approaches to ornamentation and intabulation of the 16th and 17th centuries. They were selected for an artist residency in Spring 2024 producing a concert video. |
