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Hannah Firth
Hannah has been teaching music in schools around the UK since 2017, but moved home to Orkney to start up Orkney Music Rooms in July 2021. Hannah teaches all ages from 3 years old upwards and has prepared students for University and Conservatoire auditions. Holding a Post Graduate Certificate in Secondary Music Education, and Qualified Teacher Status, Hannah achieved ‘Outstanding’ when qualifying from the University of Buckingham.
As a child, Hannah was a pupil of Kathleen Hague who inspired Hannah’s love for singing and Hannah was taught to play the piano by Jeannie Blagg. Hannah benefitted from their support and encouragement and that enabled her to pursue her passion and continue her musical education. Hannah was involved in the Orkney Traditional Music Project in her teenage years and began learning to play the accordion. Her first taste of teaching was working as a tutor for OTMP for beginner accordionists.
Hannah always had a passion for singing and studied MMus in Vocal Performance at the University of Leeds, graduating with distinction. Prior to that she graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Applied Music from the University of the Highlands and Islands. Hannah has benefited from the expertise of renowned vocal teachers in the course of her studies, working with; Sarah Estill, Austin Gunn, Susan Hamilton and Jonathan Watts and has participated in masterclasses with Christine Brewer, Alison Wells, Linda Ormiston and Nicky Spence. Hannah attended specialist singing courses at St Magnus International Festival, Trinity Laban and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and has performed at the Orkney Folk Festival, St Magnus Festival, Celtic Connections, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Proms in the Park, with Dorset Opera, Leeds Baroque, Opera Camerata, Northern Opera and has toured throughout Europe with the Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers and with Cantilena. In June 2017, Hannah sang in the World Premiere of Mark Sheridan’s one-woman opera ‘Dreaming Agrakas’ on Seil Island, and continues to perform regularly across the UK.