2023-2024 Hearing in Color Young Composer Residency - Encouragement Award

Hannah Cai Sobel

Hannah Cai Sobel is a NYC based opera singer and composer. Her work has been described as melodramatic and whimsical, yet always relatable. She often collaborates with friend and poet, Reuben Gelley Newman, on art songs and choral works with themes of music, obsession, and queerness. She is also an alum of Wildflower Composer's Festival, Composers in the Wilderness, and Eastern Chamber Music’s Art Song Lab. Her work has been performed by the Brooklyn Tech Chorale, the Swarthmore College Garnet Singers, the College of St. Mary’s Women’s Choir, Manhattan Choral Ensemble, Corvus, Quartet Iris, and Relache Ensemble. Most recently, she won Manhattan Choral Ensemble’s 2023 Composition Competition as well as their Audience Choice Award. She will write about anything and everything as long as it’s a good or silly story. Hannah is a lover of all cats and most hyperbolic triangle groups.