About Hannah
Pianist, vocalist, teacher, composer, actor, and filmmaker HANNAH REIMANN has a pedagogical lineage, via multiple generations, tracing back to Beethoven. Her teachers include German Diez (assistant to Claudio Arrau), Arminda Canteros, Kenneth Cooper and Blossom Cohon. She has played classical music and sang in folk and rock ensembles since she was a child. Over the course of her varied and multi-genre career, Reimann has played concert piano at Lincoln Center, fronted a punk band in Japan, appeared in over twenty independent films, performed with the Main Squeeze Accordion Orchestra, and directed the documentary, My Father's House: A Journey of Love and Memory.
Reimann has devoted herself to interpreting the music of Joni Mitchell for much of the past decade. Performances of her show Both Sides Now, were hosted at The Bitter End, Littlefield, The Cutting Room and additional venues in Maine, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The show had a three-week run in 2019 at the Irondale Center, Brooklyn as part of the ON WOMEN theater festival and is featured at 54 Below in Manhattan.
Recently awarded a grant from Café Royal Cultural Foundation to record “Mi Corazòn,” an EP of her original work, Hannah works with Hollywood hit-maker and producer, Peter Rafelson, who wrote for Madonna etc. Her album, First Songs, has been on the Sirius Radio airwaves for over seventeen years. She has been commissioned to create numerous pop, folk, theatre and classical compositions over the past 20 years.
Hannah was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal for rebuilding her piano with narrow keys to fit her small hand and is now given credit as one of several pioneers who have together helped pianists on a global scale know that they have a choice of piano key size.
She and her colleagues are influencing manufacturers and changing the demographic of players who can play demanding piano repertoire.
During the COVID 19 pandemic, she created Stretto Piano Concerts and The International Stretto Piano Festival, May 15-23, 2021, featuring 18 online concerts of pianists on four continents who own and perform on pianos with narrower-than-standard keys (for smaller hands) as well as Revelation Tuesdays, a monthly concert series at St. John’s in the Village gallery. Featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal in 1997 as a “musician on a mission,” she is the only Steinway liaison for sales of “stretto” pianos. She convinced the company to make them available on custom order in February 2021.
Born in New York to Korean and German parents, Hannah Reimann first sang publicly at age 2, began playing piano at age 5 and joined rock bands as a young teen. She worked with teachers from the Juilliard School as a teen; her focus on Classical music led to numerous piano recitals and learning to arrange and compose instrumental music. She has performed internationally since her teenage years when she was both lead singer for the punk band "Kikigurushii" in Kyoto, Japan and concert pianist in the United States.
In the 1900s, CNN presented Miss Reimann and violist Paul Coletti's performances and arrangements of Astor Piazzolla via live broadcast from the Argentine Consulate General; their live performances were also heard internationally. Venues include Lincoln Center, the Bitter End, Knitting Factory, Cutting Room, Grand Canyon Music Festival, Bargemusic and many others for her work as a piano soloist, chamber musician, singer-songwriter and rock musician including keys and vocals with the indie Rock bands Last Tango, Loaded Dreams, and various other local New York ensembles.
