Hannah Tam

Biography

A voice of conviction

Hong Kong–born violinist Hannah Tam has been hailed by The Strad for her “amazing conviction and variety of tone” — a player whose technical command is matched by an unusually direct sense of narrative.

In 2025 she was named a Laureate of the Young Concert Artists auditions in New York. Her earlier honours include Third Prize and the Audience Prize at the Menuhin International Competition Junior Division (2021); the Audience Prize at “Mini Violini” of the Concours Musical International de Montréal (2019), where she was the sole awardee; the Memorial Performance Award at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival; and First Prize and Overall Winner of the Concorso Andrea Postacchini in Italy. In 2020 she received a Certificate of Commendation from the Hong Kong SAR Government and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund Scholarship. She is a Jubilee Ambassador of Bärenreiter.

Following a concerto debut at the age of ten with the Virtuosi Italiani Chamber Orchestra in Verona, Hannah has appeared as soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Brevard Symphony Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra of Musici de Montréal. She has performed across Japan, Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Canada and the United States — at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival and the La Jolla Music Festival — alongside artists including Itzhak Perlman, Gil Shaham and the late Vladimir Mendelssohn. The 2025–26 season brought invitations from the Galveston Symphony and the Hong Kong Premiere Performances Chamber Festival, sharing the stage with Cho-Liang Lin and Stefan Jackiw.

Hannah has studied at The Curtis Institute of Music since the age of twelve, first with Ida Kavafian and more recently with Benjamin Beilman. She plays a 1757 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin, the “ex-Herten”.

Born

Hong Kong

Studies

The Curtis Institute of Music — Ida Kavafian, Benjamin Beilman

Instrument

Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, 1757 — the “ex-Herten”

Ambassador

Bärenreiter Jubilee Ambassador

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