Contact
Website: Taobh na Mara Céilí Band
Bandcamp: Casadh na Taoide by Hannah Collins
Hannah Collins is a piano and concertina player, teacher and composer from Skibbereen, west Cork. She is a UCC alumnus, having graduated with a BA in Irish and Music in 2019, and a BMus in 2020. Throughout her time in UCC she was granted a Quercus Creative Performing Arts Scholarship, and she was also awarded the Donal 'Doc' Gleeson award for performance and the Mary V. Hart Award for academic achievement. She has also won many solo piano competitions at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann over the years, culminating with the Senior Piano title in 2019.
Following her degree, she completed an MA in Irish Traditional Music at Maynooth University, where she released her debut solo piano EP, Casadh na Taoide. In 2021 Hannah was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to teach Irish at the University of Montana for a year.
Hannah regularly performs and teaches at festivals at home and abroad and has recently played piano with Cherish the Ladies, as well as being a member of the All-Ireland winning Taobh na Mara Céilí Band.