Hannah Moreno

Hannah Moreno is an American soprano.

In the 2024/2025 season, Hannah won the Second Place Prize at the Young Texas Artists Competition Vocal Division and an Encouragement Award at the 2025 Arkansas District of the Laffont Metropolitan Opera Competition. Throughout the season, Hannah performed in several recitals, including her recently performed concert series “Canciones de mi Tierra” in the Rio Grande Valley with pianist Dr. Chelsea Whitaker. In an exciting turn of events, Hannah made her conducting debut at the Strong Auditorium- University of Rochester conducting Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, with Hannah Harnest as the piano soloist, and Fanny Mendelssohn’s Overture in C Major. In this same concert, they both be returned for the second half to perform Lieder by Erich W. Korngold and Hugo Wolf. As an avid art song performer, Hannah will be seen this summer in the Art Song Preservation Society of New York.

In the 2023/2024 season, Hannah was featured in a variety of recitals, including a Latin-American art song recital titled “Canciones de mi Tierra,” with pianist Érico Freire Bezerra, sponsored by the Rochester Latino Theater Company. In May, Hannah gave a recital with pianist Anna Park, featuring various song settings of Heine’s Die Lorelei and Goethe’s Mignon poems, as part of George Eastman Museum’s Performance Plus series. Hannah performed as a soloist with Niagara Opera’s Gala Concert, supported by the Lewiston Council on the Arts, at the Castellani Art Museum. In the summer, Hannah was the recipient of three vocal fellowships at the Mostly Modern Festival in Saratoga Springs, NY , Toronto Summer Music Art of Song, and the Lotte Lehmann Akademie in Perleberg, Germany.

In the 2022/2023 season, Hannah made two role debuts as Rosalba in Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas with the Eastman Opera Theater in Kodak Theater and as Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen with Music on Site, Inc. in Wichita, Kansas. She was also Mabel’s cover in the student-led Rochester Summer Opera’s production of The Pirates of Penzance. In the summer, Hannah attended Sewanee’s OperaFest as an Emerging Artist.

In May 2023, Hannah performed in a voice recital tour, “Opera and Songs: A Recital Series in South Texas,” with Brazilian pianist, Érico Freire Bezerra. Notable appearances include the Gelman Stained Glass Museum in San Juan, TX and the International Museum of Arts and Sciences in McAllen, TX. Her collaboration with Érico began in their first public recital together, “A Canção Brasileira Brazilian Songs,” at the Strong Auditorium-University of Rochester in November.

In the 2021/2022 season, Hannah was the recipient of the Encouragement Award of the Lyra New York International Art Song Competition, and was a triple semi-finalist in the CS Vocal Competition, Young Texas Artists Music Competition, and the Pasadena Vocal Competition. Hannah performed Baker’s Wife in Sondheim’s Into the Woods and Linfea in Cavalli’s La Calisto, both with Eastman Opera Theater. In December, she was the soprano soloist for Schumann’s Requiem für Mignon with the Eastman-Rochester Chorus and Orchestra. In the summer of 2021, she made her first public recital performance, “French Music Tribute Concert,” in collaboration with the International Museum of Arts and Sciences.

From 2017-2020, Hannah placed in many regional competitions in Texas where she was born and raised. In regional NATS competitions, she won 1st place in the classical voice division in 2019, 2nd place in 2018, and 3rd place in 2017. During her undergrad, she performed her first operatic role, Spirit I, in Mozart’s The Magic Flute with the UTRGV Opera Theater. In the summer of 2018, she was an Apprentice Artist in Music Across the Pond in England, where she performed in song recitals. 

During her time at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg, Texas, Hannah maintained her own private voice studio of approximately 15 young singers and accompanied singers and choirs. 

Hannah is passionate about contributing music back to her home community. In the summer of 2021, she directed Musical Living Academy’s Musical Theater Scenes program of Rodger and Hammerstein’s Sound of Music, and in the summer of 2022 she was the stage director and music director for Strouse’s Annie. Directing credits for scenes include West Side Story, Mary Poppins, Anastasia, Peter Pan, and Cinderella. 

Hannah received her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music in 2023 and her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Performance and a degree in Biology from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Texas in 2019. 

In addition to her undergraduate musical studies, Hannah was awarded two study grants to work as a lab technician intern with the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service for 2 years, which later enabled her to work there shortly after as a Biological technician. In 2020, she co-authored a paper about Tick and Tick borne Diseases, “Partial characterization of the voltage-gated sodium channel gene and molecular detection of permethrin resistance in Rhipicephalus annulatus.” In 2017, she won 3rd place for the student poster presentation competition at the Subtropical Agriculture and Environments.