Hannah Benson is a classically trained mezzo-soprano from Nebraska.
Benson studied with Dr. Sarah Holman at the Wheaton College Conservatory for her undergraduate career. She has since earned her Masters Degree from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music in Voice Performance under the private teachings of Timothy Noble.
Throughout her musical career, Benson has taught private lessons in high schools and through Create308 in Grand Island, Nebraska. She has portrayed characters such as Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Ruth in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, Ma in Aaron Copland’s The Tenderland, Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn in Meridith Wilson’s The Music Man, and Anita in Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story. She has also taken part in multiple choirs and in chorus work of productions such as Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking and Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!.
