Hailing from South Florida, violist Hannah Geisinger​ is invested in the world of classical music, being a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship at The Juilliard School where she completed her bachelor’s and master’s under the tutelage of Paul Neubauer and Roger Tapping. In addition to performing throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe, Hannah dedicates a significant portion of her career to community engagement. She has played for the elderly, underrepresented children, hospital patients, and the incarcerated. Throughout her studies, Hannah has participated in masterclasses with violists Amihai Grosz, Kim Kashkashian, Cynthia Phelps, Antoine Tamestit, and Tabea Zimmermann.

An avid chamber musician, Hannah was the violist of the Azure Quartet for two years. As a member, she participated in the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, as well as Juilliard’s Honors Chamber Music Program. The Azure Quartet attended the International Musicians Seminar held in Prussia Cove where they studied Beethoven and Borodin quartets with composer Thomas Adès. They also performed for cellist Clive Greensmith during a live-streamed masterclass at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.  As enthusiastic supporters of new music, the Azure Quartet commissioned young Australian composer Jack Frerer in 2019 to compose “Spiral Sequences,” which they subsequently performed at the Tribeca New Music Festival: Best in Score. “Spiral Sequences” was also featured on TheStrad.com. The Azure Quartet returned to Alice Tully Hall to premiere the first prize work of Juilliard’s Chamber Music Composition Competition: “Shadowplay” by Sunbin Kim. In addition to new works, they performed traditional masterpieces of Beethoven, Borodin, Brahms, Mozart, Shostikovich, and Ravel.

In 2016, she was chosen to perform in a string quartet with fellow Juilliard Kovner Fellows at the Beijing Conservatory, the People's Liberation Arts Academy, the Tianjin Conservatory, and the Shanghai Conservatory during a tour to promote the new Tianjin Juilliard School. In addition to showcasing “American” composers during performances, Hannah worked with local conservatory students on cultivating the art and practice of chamber music. This led to an in depth study of Brahms’ String Sextet No. 1 in Bb Major and culminated in a collaborative concert with the quartet and conservatory students. Hannah has studied chamber music with violinists Martin Beaver, Ronald Copes, Joseph Lin, Itzhak Perlman, Donald Weilerstein, and Areta Zhulla; violists Samuel Rhodes and Roger Tapping; cellists Natasha Brofsky and Joel Krosnick; and pianist Joseph Kalichstein.

 After working with composer Jack Frerer on “Spiral Sequences,” Hannah commissioned him to write a solo work for viola, which he affectionately titled “Banana.” The premiere took place at Lincoln Center. On the other end of the spectrum, Hannah has dedicated a large portion of her career to the study of Baroque music. A year of academic work with Juilliard’s Director of Historical Performance, Robert Mealy, and an intensive year of private baroque study with  baroque violinist, Cynthia Roberts, led to her passion for the style and repertoire. Hannah enjoyed performing on a period-instrument with Juilliard’s historical ensemble, Juilliard415. 

As a principal violist of The Juilliard Orchestra, beginning unexpectedly from her second year at Juilliard and every year afterwards, she recently participated in a landmark collaboration with the Royal Academy of Music at Royal Albert Hall. The program featured Stravinsky and Britten at the BBC Proms alongside maestro Edward Gardner and soloist James Ehnes. Other venues that she has performed at throughout New York include Alice Tully Hall, David Geffen Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cell Theatre, The Century Association, Merkin Concert Hall, and Carnegie Hall. Prior to her collegiate studies, Hannah studied with Helen Callus at Colburn's Music Academy. There, she performed under the baton of James Conlon with the Colburn Orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall. In 2013, Hannah was a first place winner in the American Protege International Concerto Competition and soloed at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall. In 2012, she performed Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp with her sister and Grammy award winning flutist Nestor Torres. Hannah and her sister frequently perform together; during their childhood, they were featured solo and chamber musicians on National Public Radio WQCS’ Young Artist Spotlight. 

As an active member of the Perlman Music Program [PMP] community, Hannah has spent past summers at the PMP Chamber Music Workshop where she studied with Merry Peckham and Itzhak Perlman. Through attending the PMP Chamber Music Retreat and the PMP winter residency in Sarasota, FL, Hannah has conducted dozens of community engagement performances and masterclasses throughout South Florida and Long Island, New York. During her time at Colburn Music Academy, Hannah taught weekly private lessons and group classes for underrepresented students in Los Angeles; this ignited her passion for community engagement, and led to her position as an Educational Outreach MAP Associate in Juilliard’s Community Engagement office. She has participated in Bellevue Hospital's music therapy program, where she performed for visitors, psychiatric patients, and residents of the prison ward. In addition to her outreach work in China, she worked vigorously with students in São Paulo, Brazil in 2018 during an educational residency that was sponsored by Juilliard and the Santa Marcellina Academy. While there, she daily led masterclasses, coached the student orchestra, and met privately with faculty members to discuss string education. During the final collaborative performance, the students surprised the Juilliard guests with a heartfelt thank you speech. With great emotion, they said, “We now know that hard work beats talent, and we will work hard.”

Ever since recruiting her first neighborhood student at the age of twelve, Hannah has been committed to music education, and maintains a private teaching studio. Under theorist Dr. Steven Laitz’s tutelage, Hannah studied Theory Pedagogy, where she learned to develop her drive for education into a classroom setting. In addition to music, painting, and weightlifting, Hannah is currently pursuing a career in derivatives trading and is actively involved with Interhope, an international orphanage development organization that aids abandoned and orphaned children in the developing world. Hannah currently resides in Lookout Mountain, GA with her husband, daughter, and cat.