Hailed for her “burnished vocalism and enchanting manner” (South Florida Classical review), soprano Hannah Penzner is drawn to choral music, opera, and concert work alike. In 2024 Hannah portrayed Mrs Fiorentino in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene and Mamah Borthwick in the world premiere of Stained Glass by Shawn Crouch, libretto by Dana Kaufmann, with Frost Opera Theater. She performed Bob Becker’s Crying Time with a chamber percussion ensemble at Frost and In Her Own Voice, a concert series with GRAMMY®-nominated ensemble Seraphic Fire as part of the Seraphic Fire Scholars program. Hannah was chosen to attend the Spoleto Festival USA as a Vocal Fellow this past summer, where she sang with the Spoleto Festival Chorus in Haydn’s Creation and The Heart Starts Singing, a choral concert, with Joe Miller.

Hannah has performed as the soprano soloist for Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Robert Kapilow’s Green Eggs and Ham and Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasilieres No. 5. While at the Frost School of Music she performed solos in Sarah Kirkland Snyder’s Mass for the Endangered, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, and Vaughn-Williams’ Serenade to Music with the Frost Chorale, conducted by Amanda Quist. Previously a member of GRAMMY®-winning ensemble Tonality, Hannah can be heard of the soundtracks of movies such as Warner Brothers’s Space Jam: A New Legacy and Netflix’s Spiderhead, as well as on Tonality’s two albums Sing About It and America Will Be.

Hannah holds a Master’s of Music from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and a Bachelor’s of Music from the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach. She now resides in New York City, where she can be heard every Sunday at Fifth Ave Presbyterian Church as a member of the professional choir.