Hannah Moreno

Hannah Moreno is an American soprano and a rising conductor.

In the beginning of the 2025/2026 season, Hannah conducted the inaugural performance of the Eastman Community Orchestra Project ensemble, through the Eastman Community Music School. An orchestra opportunity for surrounding Rochester schools to collaborate with Eastman students and alumni. Hannah also had the pleasure of being a Cedar Rapids Opera Smith Young Artist, performing the role of Rusalka in their children’s opera tour The Littlest Mermaid. Hannah looks forward to ending the season as a Studio Artist with Finger Lakes Opera, where she will be performing the role of Younger Alyce in Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied and covering the role of Susanna in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro.

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.

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.