“Violinist Hannah Roper achieved something of a coup…her playing projected beautifully down the cathedral nave and with the sound of the violin coming from on high the effect was highly atmospheric…She played the demanding solo part with poetry and virtuoso technique.” John Quinn for Seen and Heard International, review of “The Lark Ascending”, April 2022
Hannah was born and grew up in Herefordshire and took up the violin at the age of three. She briefly attended the Yehudi Menuhin school, and studied with renowned British violinist Rodney Friend, Mateja Marinkovic, based at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and British concertmaster, James Clark.
Hannah was the recipient of the prestigious Martin Musical Scholarship of the Philharmonia Orchestra for three consecutive years and received the inaugural Yehudi Menuhin Prize for string playing whilst reading music at the University of Cambridge.
Hannah has a keen interest in the music of Elgar and Vaughan-Williams. In 2018 she recorded an album of their works with pianist and conductor Adrian Partington. She enjoys a varied solo career with a particular focus on English music, and performs regularly with various chamber ensembles and as a freelance orchestral musician in major venues in the UK and further afield, including Carnegie Hall, New York and with ensembles including the English Symphony Orchestra, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of Longborough Festival Opera & more.
Hannah’s album of previously unrecorded music by Gustav Holst and other English composers, supported by the Gustav Holst Society, was released on the Albion record label in October 2024, with Martin Jacoby (piano), Emma Tring (soprano) and Valeria Clarke (harp).
Hannah also teaches in Worcestershire and Oxford. Her violin, previously played by Lydia Mordkovitch, is by Harris and Sheldon.
