​​ Musician and Composer
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"[Hannah's] music sounds like I'm running across
​the desert on a horse with a dragon head."
-friend
Hannah Lipton (b.1992) began her musical studies at 5 years old with lessons in classical piano in her hometown of Croton-on-Hudson, New York.  She eventually developed an interest in composition as a high school student and began composing pieces for solo piano. Hannah went on to pursue a Bachelor's degree in music at Skidmore College, where she continued to study composition independently and took courses in French, modern dance, ballet, political philosophy and English and played keyboard in a rock band.
            After graduating from Skidmore College, she pursued private instruction with composers Justin Dello Joio and Evan Fein.   Her music has been performed by groups such as Ensemble ACJW, American Modern Ensemble, Quartatto Indaco (The Indigo Quartet), Manhattan Symphonie, PHASE, the USC Thornton Orchestra and the KLK String Orchestra in Lviv, Ukraine.  She has  attended festivals including California Summer Music, Brevard Music Center, HighSCORE Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Mostly Modern Festival and Vienna Summer Music Festival and received a fellowship to Yale School of Music’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. She recently won 3rd place in the Zodiac International Composition Competition and was a finalist for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer's Award.  This year Hannah has been commissioned by Third Street Music School Philharmonia to compose a new work for chamber orchestra. 
       Hannah holds a master's degree in composition from The University of Southern California Thornton School of Music where she studied with Frank Ticheli, Donald Crockett and Ted Hearne.  In addition to composition, Hannah has interests in folk and pop music-writing, scoring for film and multimedia, visual art and animation. She plays in a band with composer Maia Thomas.  Hannah also enjoys vegetable gardening and is a big outer space nerd.

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