Photograph by Ciaran Whyte

Hannah Shields is a young American pianist and chamber musician. She has performed in Carnegie Hall—as a soloist under the baton of Itzhak Perlman—and in such venues as Weill Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Seattle Opera House. She has collaborated with many distinguished artists, including Andre Emelianoff, Barbara Stein Mallow, Itzhak Perlman, Kathy Murdock, and Pinchas Zuckerman, and has participated in such major festivals as the Banff Chamber Music Festival, Taos School of Music, and the Yellow Barn Music Festival. She was a top prize winner in the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition, and was the pianist for the Novarte Trio, who were Shouse Artists at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival.

Ms. Shields studied with Daniel Shapiro at the Cleveland Institute of Music where she received the Arthur Loesser prize in piano performance and the Carmen Mihalache Dimulescu Memorial Award for outstanding collaborative achievement. She did graduate studies with Claude Frank at Yale University and Vivian Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory. She currently lives in Boston, Massachussetts.