Hannah Conway

Hannah Conway is an artistic director, composer and presenter. She is founder/Executive Director of Sound Voice and was Artistic Director of Streetwise Opera (2019–21). Recognition for The Sound Voice Project has included the FEDORA Digital Prize (2023), Ivor Novello (2022), Classical:NEXT Innovation Award (2024) and the Alternate Realities Award (2022). Her music has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Television. Previous works include immersive installation 100 VOICES NHS (2023/4 UK tour), This Room, FLY/WORK/GROW (Ivor Novello nominated 2024), Towards Another World (English National Opera/V&A), Tyger, Tyger (BBC Singers), Dare To Dream and Freedom Game (Royal Albert Hall). Her work as a guest artist has included projects for the Royal Danish Opera, Dutch National Opera, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Opéra de Dijon, Royal Concertgebouw, Luxembourg Philharmonie, LʼOrchéstre de Paris, Muziek Centrum Van De Omroep, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Madlenianum Opera Serbia, Opéra National de Paris, Swedish Royal Opera and UAE Cultural Ministry. She has moderated the European Commission’s flagship EU cultural conferences and as broadcaster has presented programmes for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, adjudicating BBC Young Musician the Year. She has presented and programmed orchestral concerts for the BBC Proms, Royal Concertgebouw, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Monterverdi Choir & Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, sign interpreting their first orchestral concerts for deaf children in 1999 at the Barbican Hall.