American pianist Anna Han is a laureate of many national and international competitions, including the Naumburg International Piano Competition, Hilton Head International Piano Competition, New York International Piano Competition, and United States National Federation of Music Clubs. Her repertoire includes more than thirty compositions by living composers, including multiple premiers; nineteen concerti; and over a hundred complete works for strings and piano. She has had the terrific honor of performing with Alexi Kenney, Itzhak Perlman, John Myerscough, Kim Kashkashian, Steven Isserlis, the Verona Quartet, and many others. She has given concerts at the Alice Tully Hall, BOZAR Brussels, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, National Concert Hall of Taipei, National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, St. John’s Smith Square in London, to name a few.

Anna is currently one of four pianists in the Sir András Schiff Performance Programme for Young Pianists at the Kronberg Academy in Germany. Her studies are generously funded by the Henle patronage of the Günter Henle Stiftung. She is also the Education Director at the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, an institution dedicated towards nurturing emerging young artists of the highest caliber from all around the world. She has conducted masterclasses, lectures, workshops, and outreach concerts for a large variety of audiences, and has served on the faculty of Yellow Barn’s Young Artist Program.

Born in Arizona, Anna started private lessons at age five with Fei Xu, who remained her only teacher for thirteen years. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Robert McDonald, where she won the Bachauer Scholarship Competition, the Kovner Fellowship, and the William Schuman Prize. With the help of a grant from the Kathleen Trust, she then studied with Christopher Elton at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she won the Sterndale Bennett Prize, before completing her Artist Diploma at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin as a student of Sir András Schiff and Schaghajegh Nostrati. More information is available at www.annahan.net