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. Born in New York to Korean and German parents, Lincoln Center, the Bitter End, Knitting Factory, Cutting Room, Grand Canyon Music Festival and Bargemusic are among the venues where she's been featured as a piano soloist, chamber musician, singer-songwriter and rock musician.
She continues to expand her range and repertoire performing music and writing for film and theater, and is an experienced Chamber Musician.
CNN presented Miss Reimann and Grammy-nominated 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. Theater credits include Musical Director and vocal soloist for two sold-out runs of "American Clock" (Arthur Miller, dir. Austin Pendleton) and composer for "The Quick Change Room" (Nagel Jackson), both at New York's HB Playwright's Theater. The soundtrack from the feature film "The Cutting Room Floor" includes scoring and songs written by her; she also has a lead role in the film.
As an actress, starring/leading roles in 2008-09 include those in the films "Burn!!!," an action-drama feature about two women running from bounty hunters in New York City , "Friday Night Tango" and "The Wounded & the Slain." [MORE] Theater credits include Robert Lewis Vaughn's "The Good Red Road" and "A Chorus Girl" by Chekhov. She attended HB Studio to work with Austin Pendleton, also The Barrow Group and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
She is currently creating work for her second solo CD, a taste of which is found on her first YouTube presence.. Her CD "First Songs," was written at her home in New York CIty and while she traveled internationally.
Hannah first sang publicly at age 2, began playing piano at age 5 and joined rock bands as a young teen. She worked with teachers form 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 played accordion with the all-female Main Squeeze Accordion Orchestra, keys and vocals with the indie Rock bands Last Tango, Loaded Dreams, and various other local New York ensembles.
Her teaching studios in New York City and New Jersey for aspiring singers and pianists spans, like her own repertoire, from Classical to Jazz, Pop, R&B, Broadway, Singer-songwriter and Rock. One of her young students landed a Principal role in Disney's "Mary Poppins" and another has sung in the Broadway musical "The Boy from Oz."
She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College where she studied composition with Meyer Kupferman. Her piano teachers include Kenneth Cooper, German Diez, and Arminda Canteros. She began teaching piano while she was an undergraduate and was trained in piano pedagogy at Mannes College of Music and at The Diller-Quaille School of Music where she served on the faculty for ten years. She studied singing and vocal instruction in New York with Badiene Magaziner and Wendy Parr and in Los Angeles with Seth Riggs. She served as Chairwoman of the Leschetizky Association Gifted Young People's Concerts for three years and has contributed to Piano Today magazine.
She owns US Patent #6,020,049 regarding an emerging piano invention to help create pianos with narrower than standard keyboards.
