Live @ Baruch Performing Arts Center’s Engelman Recital Hall
55 Lexington Avenue, New York
Audience entrance on East 25th Street between Lexington & 3rd Avenues
BIO
HANNAH REIMANN has a lineage, actually tracing back to Beethoven. She has played classical music and sang in folk and rock ensembles since she was a child. Over the course of her varied career, she 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.
She 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.
During the COVID 19 pandemic, she created 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 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.
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.
Hannah is also a remarkable artist who writes and performs pop, latin, rock and Americana songs. With a strong background in classical piano, her style is an enchanting combo of various genres and performances. She is also well known for performing over 30 songs by Joni Mitchell as well as Bossa Nova, Jazz Standards and even Beethoven.
Her new EP, self titled “HĀNA” includes collaborators such as latin Universal recording artist GO who hails from Brazil and Chile, comparable to early Norah Jones and Astrid Gilberto. Produced and cowriting with hitmaker Peter Rafelson (Madonna, Elton John, Stevie Nicks) brings the music to life and has led to additional collaborations and features.
Recently awarded a grant from Café Royal Cultural Foundation, the EP features her “extraordinary voice” (XM Satellite Radio) and new production of her song,“Mi Corazòn,” which had been on radio for over a decade.
Previously, Hannah has been commissioned to create numerous pop, folk, theatre and classical compositions. Currently she is focused on her own original composition and live performance.
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.