Originally from Ireland, Dr. Hannah Carr is Director of Choral Activities at William Paterson University, following five years on the faculty at Kutztown University. Hannah holds a BA in Composition from Trinity College Dublin, an Adv. Dip in Music Education from the Kodály Institute in Hungary, an MM in Conducting from Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music and a DMA in Conducting from Rutgers University.

Hannah is director of Cantigas, a Hoboken-based treble choir dedicated to performing diverse music from around the world. Hannah has worked with professional choirs as director of the University Church at Yale, Stratford Street United Church in Boston, and with C4 Ensemble in New York City. With C4, Hannah served as conducting chair, and was a featured conductor on C4’s debut album, Uncaged.

Hannah has won various prizes, including the Irene Alms Memorial Prize at Rutgers University, The Director’s Prize from Yale University, The Highest Bursary Award for Choral Conducting in 2009 & 2010 from the Irish Arts Council, and The Gerard Victory Prize for Composition from Trinity College Dublin. Hannah is an artist-in-residence at Ireland’s Tyrone Guthrie Center. Hannah is active as a clinician of choral music, most recently as PMEA Region 1 Festival Conductor in Pittsburgh and as an adjudicator at the ACDA All-State High School Choir Festival.