Hannah Carr Professor • Department of Music View CV Originally from Ireland, Hannah Carr is Director of Choral Activities at William Paterson University, NJ, following five years on the faculty at Kutztown University, PA. 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. She is director of Cantigas, a Hoboken-based treble choir dedicated to performing diverse music from around the world. Hannah has worked with professional choirs including the University Church at Yale, Stratford Street United Church in Boston, and C4 Ensemble in NYC, whose debut album Uncaged was named WQXR "Album of the Week." Her honors include the Irene Alms Memorial Prize (Rutgers), the Director's Prize (Yale), the Irish Arts Council's Highest Bursary Award for Choral Conducting (2009 & 2010), and the Gerard Victory Prize for Composition (Trinity College Dublin). She is an artist-in-residence of Ireland's Tyrone Guthrie Centre and an active clinician, festival conductor, and adjudicator in Europe and the US. Her current scholarship examines accessible choral strategies, seventeenth-century German music and the Bach family, and Béla Bartók's transformation of Hungarian folk melody, with articles under review on Johann Christoph Bach's motets and on folk-melody influence in Bartók's Cantata Profana Professional Interests Choral conducting and diverse repertoire from around the world;contemporary and new choral music;Kodály-based music education;the seventeenth-century German motet and the Bach family;Béla Bartók and the transformation of Hungarian folk melody;choral singing and its benefits for community and well-being. Degrees DMA Conducting , Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ BA Composition, Trinity College Dublin Dublin , Ireland Other Conducting, Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy Kesckemet, Hungary MM Conducting, Yale University New Haven, CT Specialization Choral conducting; choral music; composition; music education (Kodály); musicology and analysis Representative Publications Off the Beaten Path ; Kodaly Symposium 50 year Anniversary ; (pp ). Kesckemet, Hungary Kodaly Symposium 50 year Anniversary ; Representative Presentations Off the Beaten Path 50th Year Symposium of the Kodaly Institute Kodaly Institute, Hungary kesckemet, 2025 Off the Beaten Path Cultural Diversity in Music Education Conference Cultural Diversity in Music Education Conference Limerick , 2025 Paperless Singing International Society for the Sociology of Music Education International Society for the Sociology of Music Education wayne, 2025 Awards and Honors Bronze Medal Preveza International Choir Competition 07/10/2025 Outstanding Ally Award Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion 04/25/2025 Performances and Exhibits Canadian Song Evening Choir WP Voxtet WP University Folksong Choir WP Voxtet William Paterson University Hunchback of Notre Dame Choir WP CHOIRS WP Auditorium O Radiant Dawn Choir William Paterson Choirs St. Joseph's Church Summit Concert Series Choir WP Voxtet Summit Presbyterian Church Fellowships, Grants and Research Concert in Nafplio Contract Concert, Festival of Chalandri, Kodaly Conservatory of Athens Contract Hudson County Local Arts Program Grant Funding Grant Ongoing Fellowship Fellowship Summer Research Grant Grant Email 973 720 2337 167 Shea Center Monday 12:30-2, Thursday 2-3:30
