Ruth Hahn

Biography

Born in Wales, Ruth Hahn became the youngest leader of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales. At the age of thirteen, she travelled to London to take lessons in Suzanne Rosza’s class at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Soon after she joined the Solo Class of Yfrah Neaman, where she graduated with distinction and was awarded several major prizes.

A British Council award led to further studies with Ayla Erduran in Geneva, and later to a position in the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Switzerland. On returning to London, she played with the English Chamber Orchestra and Covent Garden Opera House. Since then, she has also recorded for BBC radio and performed regularly as soloist and ensemble player in this country and festivals abroad.

Ruth teaches at the Guildhall School of Music and at Chethams School of Music, Manchester. She is also invited regularly to teach at prestigious music festivals abroad. She has recorded solo works of Bach and Ysaÿe.

Her passion for modern languages has led her to study the major European languages as well as Russian and takes great pleasure to read world literature in the original.

Ruth plays on an Italian violin made by Carlo Giuseppe Oddone in 1920.