An avid solo and chamber performer, Hannah Weaver is passionate about contemporary music and interdisciplinary collaborations, such as her work with artists Maddie Hake & Sarah Hall and dancer Katrinka Stayton. Hannah believes in making the arts more accessible to and representative of all people, advocating for this through her programming choices and commissioning of new works by underrepresented composers. This passion led Hannah to create LXXXII Arts, a collective of artists dedicated to empowering underrepresented artists.
Highly active as a chamber musician, Hannah has performed with the Des Moines Metro Opera (2022), the Lincoln Crossroads Festival (2022 and 2023), Omaha Under the Radar (2020, 2021, 2022), as well as toured extensively nationally and internationally as a member of the Heartland Marimba Quartet 2020-2022. She participated in HMQ for the premiere of the new concerto by Kevin Romanski with the Dubuque Symphony (February 2023), as well as performances of the “Marahuaka” concerto with Minot Symphony (April 2022) and Gottschalk concerto with Dubuque Symphony (March 2021). Summers of 2016-2018, Hannah was the percussion fellow with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, and summer 2019 she attended the Lake George Music Festival as one of two percussion fellows. She has also held fellowships with the Texas Music Festival and the National Repertory Orchestra.
Hannah is Assistant Professor of Percussion at University of Nebraska-Omaha. An open and energetic teacher committed to cultivating her students’ individual musicianship, she previously taught at Virginia Tech during the 2018 spring semester. Hannah has presented clinics at a number of universities, including Carnegie-Mellon, University of Missouri, University of Oklahoma, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Virginia Commonwealth University, Bowling Green State University, South Dakota State University, North Dakota University, Radford University, the University of Indianapolis, and Eastern Tennessee State University. She has coached and conducted percussion ensembles at Eastman School of Music, University of Michigan, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Virginia Tech, and University of Rochester.
A sought-after soloist, Hannah recently premiered a new percussion/harp duo concerto entitled “Mountains Become Oceans” with the Amarillo Symphony in February of 2025. She also performed as a soloist in the Pittsburgh Chamber Orchestra production of Messaien’s “Des canyons aux etoiles.” In addition to numerous recitals at art museums and concert halls around Omaha, Hannah performed a solo vibraphone session at PASIC 2023 and presented a virtual recital at the 2021 World Vibraphone Congress. In November of 2018, Hannah competed in the semifinals of the TROMP International Percussion Competition in Amsterdam. She also placed in the semifinals of the 2009 Paris International Marimba Competition and won the 2014 PASIC Orchestra Mock Audition. In 2015 she was a featured concerto performer with the National Repertory Orchestra, performing Russell Peck’s “The Glory and the Grandeur.”
Hannah previously held positions as Principal Timpanist for the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic and Second Percussionist for the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, Omaha Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Roanoke Symphony and Syracuse Symphoria. She has performed with Renee Fleming, Augustin Hadelich, Orli Shaham, Danny Elfman, Audra McDonald, Bob Becker, Jennifer Koh, Sō Percussion, Carol Jantsch, and Michael Burritt. She has had the opportunity to work closely with many great composers, including Steve Reich, Kaija Saariaho, Andrew Norman, Andy Akiho, Sean Shepherd, Chris Cerrone, Steve Mackey, and Ted Hearne.
Hannah received a B.M. in Percussion Performance from Eastman School of Music, an M.M. in Percussion Performance and an M.M. in Chamber Music from the University of Michigan, and a D.M.A. in Percussion Performance and Literature and the Performer’s Certificate from Eastman. Hannah is chair of the PAS Health & Wellness Committee, President of the Nebraska PAS Chapter, Past President of CMS Central Chapter, and a proud endorser of Malletech, Zildjian, and Remo products.
