ViolinHanah Stuart

Hanah Elizabeth Stuart, hailed as a performing artist who “wields a violin with unmistakable panache” (Theater Mania), joined the San Diego Symphony Orchestra in 2016 and served as Acting Associate Principal Second Violin from 2018-22. Previously, Ms. Stuart was a 1st violinist member of the Grant Park Orchestra Festival and Assistant Principal 2nd Violinist of the Utah Symphony. Ms. Stuart has performed with the Mainly Mozart Music Festival All-Stars Orchestra and is currently a faculty member at Credo for their National Festival in Chicago. Ms. Stuart has served as Concertmaster of The Juilliard Orchestra, The Juilliard Chamber Orchestra, The YouTube Symphony Orchestra, and she has also served various Principal roles in festival orchestras including the Music Academy of the West and the Aspen Music Festival.

Ms. Stuart’s unique talents led her to off-Broadway in the spring of 2012 where she starred as Young Erica Morini in The Morini Strad alongside Mary Beth Peil and Michael Laurence. Media appearances include features on Harmony Films’ documentary The Road to Carnegie Hall; CBS's The Early Show; 2009 Kronberg Academy's Abschlusskonzertder Meisterschüler (Kronberg, Germany); an internationally broadcast performance for Keshet Eilon’s Gala Concert in Tel Aviv, Israel; features on WGN, HBO, MTV, SpikeTV's Gamehead and G4 at E3 Summer 2007 with her band, Corporeal; 2006 Academy Award-nominated documentary, Rehearsing a Dream; and numerous NPR broadcast performances since 2002.

Ms. Stuart made her solo debut at age ten, performing at a Southwest Symphony benefit concert. She made her Symphony Center debut in Chicago at 16, and continued to solo with several American orchestras under Maestros Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Hinds, Francesco Milioto and Allen Tinkham among others. Ms. Stuart has taken top prizes in competitions including the Skokie Valley Young Artist Competition, the Blount Slawson Young Artist Competition, the NFAA YoungArts Awards and the Crescendo Music Awards among others.

An avid chamber musician, Ms. Stuart has been presented by the Dame Myra Hess Series and the Rembrandt Chamber Players in Chicago; the San Diego Symphony Chamber Music Series, the Camera Lucida series, and the Art of Elán series in San Diego; NISOM ChamberFest of Dubuque; and the NOVA and Intermezzo Chamber series in Salt Lake City.

Hanah Stuart holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from The Juilliard School where she studied with David Chan and Joel Smirnoff.