Hannah Wendorf
Resident Mentor & Production Assistant
Violist Hannah Wendorf (she/they) sees music as an essential expression of the human experience. She especially values the creativity of living composers, and has performed with contemporary ensembles such as New Century Chamber Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, Post:ballet, and the IU and SFCM New Music Ensembles, as well as premiered over a dozen new works.
Over the past few years, Hannah has collaborated with a variety of esteemed artists, including Lara Downes, Alexi Kenney, Lauryn Hill, Conrad Tao, Joshua Bell, and Steven Osgood. With a deep love for chamber music, Hannah was most recently coached by the Pacifica Quartet in the advanced quartet seminar at Indiana University, and was a finalist in the 2022 Saint Paul String Quartet Competition. Also an experienced orchestral musician, Hannah has performed with the Richmond and Terre Haute symphonies, and was recently principal viola of the IU chamber orchestra. Previous summer festival experiences include ENCORE Chamber Music Institute, Brevard Music Center, and Bowdoin International Music Festival, where she will return this year after her time at CMNW.
Hannah holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Dimitri Murrath, and is currently earning a Master of Music at Indiana University under the tutelage of Atar Arad.