Photograph by Ciaran Whyte

Hannah Shields has performed throughout the United States, appearing in Carnegie Hall, as a soloist under the baton of Itzhak Perlman, and performing in such venues as Weill Hall, the Metropolitan Museum, Alice Tully Hall, and the Seattle Opera House. She has colla­borated with many distinguished artists, including Pinchas Zuckerman, Andre Emelianoff, Barbara Stein Mallow, Kathy Murdock, and Itzhak Perlman. Ms. Shields was a top prize winner at the YKAA International Piano Com­petition, the Fite Young Artist Com­petition, and the Kosciuszko Chopin Com­petition; and has par­ticipated in the Yellow Barn Music Festi­val, Taos School of Music, the Banff Chamber Music Festival, and the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival. She performs with the ensemble, Musique à la Mode, and has recently given concerts with Yura Lee in Seoul, Korea and with Robin Scott in Weill Hall.

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.