Hannah McGinty is a Boulder, Colorado-based soprano and musicologist who specializes in historically-informed performance.  She currently serves as a staff singer at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Denver. She previously served in the same position as Soprano Section Leader/Soloist at St. Louis King of France Catholic Church and The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, both in Austin, TX.  She sings as a professional soloist and chorister with the St. Martin’s Chamber Choir of Denver, Ars Nova Boulder, Evans Choir, Seicento Baroque Ensemble, Elus Ensemble, Austin Baroque Orchestra & Choir (with whom she also acts as Chorusmaster), the Texas Early Music Project , Ars Longa Enesmble, and Austin Cantorum.  Hannah received her Masters of Music in Early Music Voice (Historical Performance Institute) under Dr. Steven Rickards, and her Master of Arts in Musicology at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University.  While in Bloomington, she served as a Choral Scholar at Trinity Episcopal Church and directed and sung in the Burgundian  Consort, a chamber choir dedicated to well-researched performances of Renaissance choral music.

        A native of Santa Monica, California, Hannah began her musical studies at age four with piano, adding violin and voice lessons at age ten.  Hannah attended the University of Chicago, where she received her B.A. in Music with Honors, completing a senior thesis on orientalism in Handel and Vivaldi opera under the direction of Dr. Martha Feldman. While at the University, Hannah served as soprano section leader in Motet Choir, Choral Scholar in the Rockefeller Chapel Choir, and directed and sang in the University of Chicago Camerata, a Renaissance a cappella choir. Teachers while at the University included Ellen Hargis, Lorian Stein-Schwaber, Patrice Michaels, and Tambra Black.  Hannah has attended many summer programs, including the Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools, Tallis Scholars Summer School, Michael Chance's Sienagosto Academy, and Amherst Early Music Festival's Ensemble Singing Intensive & Baroque Academy Soloist Program.  In the summer of 2015 she was the featured soloist in Triora Musica's semi-staged production of the 1589 Florentine Intermedi, directed by Deborah Roberts.  She has also performed twice at La Petite Bande's Summer Academy under the baton of Sigiswald Kuijken, as Constanza in Haydn's opera L'isola Disabitata, and as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro. 

        Hannah has participated in masterclasses with Judith Malafronte, Max von Egmond, Aaron Sheehan, Melissa Givens, Christine Brandes, Nigel North, Josefien Steppelenburg, and Julianne Baird.

        When not singing (!), Hannah enjoys daily yoga practice, hiking, cooking, and reading.