Letting Go of Musical Expectations with Hannah Boissonneault

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Tyler Kline
July 20, 2024

On today's episode of music/Maker with Tyler Kline, Tyler is joined by composer-performer Hannah Boissonneault.

Hannah Jane Boissonneault is a composer-performer and touring musician based in Austin, Texas. Through her work as a composer, bassist and vocalist of her band Blank Slate and her multi-genre project Feels Like Honey, Hannah strives to create music that entwines the communities she is a part of.

Hannah has been commissioned by ensembles such as the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble. She was a fellow for the Gabriela Lena Frank Academy of Music, participated in the Sō Percussion Summer Institute, and the Unheard of Ensemble Collaborative Composition Initiative. She has participated in reading sessions with ensembles such as Roomful of Teeth.

Hannah is endorsed by Balaguer Guitars, and she recently toured with Silent Planet as the bassist and clean vocalist in Spirit Breaker. She holds her Bachelor of Music in Composition from Michigan State University and her Master of Music in Composition from the University of Michigan.

In this conversation, Hannah shares the unique threads that came together for her when it was time to major in music composition; how she balances her work as a performer with being a composer - and how she does it across genre and style - and how she sees simply thinking about music as a valid part of the composition process.

Hannah is online at https://hannahboissonneault.com/.

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