Recent and Upcoming Events

Places Hannah's music has been performed, and events Hannah has attended.

  • Forthcoming: November 2026 — Premiere of new work for violin and cimbalom, commissioned by Lamnth
  • Forthcoming: Fall 2026 — Premiere of new work for electric guitar and electronics for Matt Sargent
  • Forthcoming: July 2026 — Selenetrope (revised version for viola) (premiere); Jing Chen, viola; graduating recital; Folkwang Musikschule, Essen, Germany
  • Forthcoming: June 2026 — Selenetrope (revised version for viola) (premiere); Jing Chen, viola; Köln, Germany
  • Forthcoming: April 2026 — Premiere of new work for piano automaton commissioned by outHEAR New Music Week, Thessaloniki, Greece; funded by CIRMMT
  • January 2026 — The Mysteries Remain (premiere); Quatuor Memoire & Joanna Mieleszko; La Sala Rossa, Montréal, QC
  • December 2025 — clouded winding paths / chemins sinueux et nuageux; Jennifer Gersten, violin; live@CIRMMT, CIRMMT, Montréal, QC
  • November 2025 — La Ligne de la Rupture (US premiere); Atlanta Contemporary Music Collective, Atlanta, GA, information here.
  • October 2025 — Erlkönig (F. Schubert, trans. H.A. Barnes) for vln. + cimb.; Lamnth’s 2025 Halloween Spooktacular, Boston, MA
  • October 2025 — Chanson; featured on the Queens Tape Music Festival: World of Tomorrow, Queens, NYC, information here.
  • October 2025 — A very short space of time through very short times of space (Aus premiere); Rebecca Lloyd-Jones and Alex Rainieri; FourthWall Arts, Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
  • October 2025 — Participating and presenting in “Gestures, Words, Sounds”: The Creative Worlds of Cathy Berberian and Luciano Berio, co-organized by the Paul Sacher Stiftung and the Schulich School of Music of McGill University; information here.
  • July 2025 — Selenetrope (premiere); Karl Jõgi, violin; Darmstadt Summer Courses 2025, Darmstadt, Germany
  • July 2025 — Participating in the Composing for Violin Workshop with Rebecca Saunders and Sarah Saviet at the Darmstadt Summer Courses
  • June 2025 — Participation in SPLICE Institute 2025; workshops in OpenMusic, OrchIdea, and Max MSP; Kalamazoo, MI
  • June 2025 — Workshop with Lamnth (Nicholas Tolle + Lilit Hartunian) for new works for 2025 and 2026; Boston, MA
  • July 2025 —clouded winding paths (premiere); Jennifer Gersten, violin; Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn, NY
  • July 2025 —Ramification; Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, percussion; Marimbafest, Perth, Western Australia
  • April 2025 — Kyle Flens performed Ramification at University of Tulsa as part of Ensemble Dal Niente’s residency
  • February 2025 — Impuls Academy (Graz, Austria) — composer participant; trip partially funded by the Government of Québec through McGill’s Graduate Mobility Award
  • February 2025 — Piano solo presence of the absence of the presence was selected for Nicolas Hodges’ workshop and performed by pianist Martina Copello (2.23.25)
  • February 2025 —Ramification was featured as part of impulsradio’s (Radio Helsinki in partnership with Graz and Impuls) “Young International Composers” show. The first movement of five images was also included.
  • February 2025 —La Ligne de la rupture (premiere); McGill’s Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by Prof. Mélanie Léonard
  • January 2025 — Closing Concert of Musikfabrik’s Virtual Brass Academy;in perpetuum (fragment); premiere for double-bell brass trio (Christine Chapman, Marco Blaauw, Stephen Menotti)
  • December 2024 — The Garden (with electronics) (premiere); Joanna Mieleszko, mezzo-soprano, live@CIRRMT
  • December 2024 — Participated in Musikfabrik’s Virtual Brass Academy
  • December 2024 — Release of Negative Capability: Works by Hannah A. Barnes (12.14.24)
  • November 2024 — Book of Hidden Cities; Bailey Wantuch, violin; McGill Association of Student Composers Fall Concert, Montréal, QC
  • November 2024 — Negative Capability, Negative Capability II; Jamie Monck, electric guitar; Frequency Series Presents rhythm is image, Chicago, Illinois
  • September 2024 — Book of Hidden Cities (premiere); Bailey Wantuch, violin; rhythm is image, Montreal, QC
  • September 2024 — A very short space of time through very short times of space (premiere); Flannau Duo; Constellation, Chicago
  • April 2024 — Ramification; Luke Helker, percussion; faculty recital, Benedictine College, Atchinson, KS
  • March 2024 — Whispering lunar incantations; Kalen Smith, harp; McGill University; Montréal, QC
  • March 2024 — The Garden (premiere); Joanna Mieleszko; SHE Festival of Women in Music, University of Arkansas
  • February 2024 — Ramification; Antonin Granier, percussion; Le Vivier InterUniversitaire; Montréal, QC
  • January 2024 — Now to begin— Why fear the end; Callithumpian Consort, New England Conservatory, Boston (postponed)
  • November 2023 — Ramification; Antonin Granier, percussion; McGill Association of Student Composers Fall Concert, Montréal, QC
  • August 2023 — Whispering lunar incantations (premiere); Melissa Achter, harp; Darmstadt Summer Courses 2023, Darmstadt, Germany
  • May 2023 - Catharsis (premiere); Nate Beaver, double bass; Frequency Series Presents rhythm is image
  • May 2023 - Antithesis; Matt Oliphant, horn; Frequency Series Presents rhythm is image
  • May 2023 - presence of the absence of the presence (premiere); Ian Pace, piano; City University of London
  • April 2023 - Ramification; Luke Helker, percussion; Earth to Ears Concert, Lawrence, Kansas
  • March 2023 - Antithesis; Tarre Nelson, horn; DMA Recital, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
  • March 2023 - Antithesis (premiere); Tarre Nelson, horn; Southeastern Horn Workshop, Orlando, Florida
  • March 2023 - Not buried, but just under the surface (premiere); Garden Unit, Julia Ansolabehere, bass clarinet, Cameron Roberts, tenor saxophone
  • February 2023 - five images; OSSIA Ensemble, Eastman School of Music
  • November 2022 - Ramification; Kyle Flens, percussion; Ensemble Dal Niente Presents Kyle Flens; Epiphany Center for the Arts
  • July 2022 -Negative Capability II (premiere); Jesse Langen, electric guitar; Hannah A. Barnes, electronics; Omaha Under the Radar Festival
  • June 2022 - un filo invisibile (premiere); Camilo Angeles, flutes; Han Gul Lee, piano; Russell Greenberg, percussion; DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City, New York; Yarn/Wire Summer Institute
  • May 2022 - sighing after something (premiere); Hannah Spear, violin; rhythm is image, Frequency Series
  • March 2022 - Dis/inte/gration; Kyle Bruckmann, oboe; University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music
  • February 2022 - Triskelion (premiere); Ensemble 20+, Michael Lewanski, conductor; DePaul University School of Music
  • September 2021 - Negative Capability (premiere); Jesse Langen, electric guitar; rhythm is image, Ear Taxi Festival
  • June 2021 - Ramification (premiere); Alexander Garde, percussion; Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice, New England Conservatory
  • March 2021 - Dis/inte/gration; Kyle Bruckmann, oboe; University of California at Davis
  • November 2020 - Dis/inte/gration (premiere); Kyle Bruckmann, oboe; University of California at Berkeley CNMAT
  • September 2020 - five images; Ensemble Dal Niente, DePaul University School of Music 2020 Season Update
  • September 2020 - five images; Ensemble Dal Niente, DePaul University School of Music Convocation
  • July 2020 - everything that will happen has happened; Landswallow, dir. Saskia Dixie, Ryan Skelton
  • July 2020 - five images; Ensemble Dal Niente (Katie Schoepflin-Jimoh, clarinets; Kyle Flens, percussion; Ben Melsky, harp; Theo Ramsey, violin/viola; Hannah A. Barnes, conductor), Dal Niente and DePaul Summer Residency for New Music
  • May 2020 - Negative Capability; Jesse Langen, DePaul University School of Music (postponed)
  • May 2020 - Revenir; DePaul University School of Music Composer’s Forum (postponed)
  • April 2020 - Dis/inte/gration; Jungmin Kim, Purposeless Play; DePaul University School of Music (postponed)
  • April 2020 - Dis/inte/gration; Jungmin Kim, DePaul University School of Music Master’s Recital (postponed)
  • March 2020 - Revenir; Tarre Nelson, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (postponed)
  • November 2019 - the Veil through which I could not see; Molly Wilson, Kelly Bartek, John Rogler, Ryan Senger; DePaul University School of Music Composer’s Forum
  • May 2019 - everything that will happen has happened; Ensemble 20+, Michael Lewanski, conductor; DePaul University School of Music
  • April 2019 - Mirrored; Roosevelt University, Chicago College of Performing Arts Electroacoustic Music Festival
  • March 2019 - static electricity, dancing in circles, Mirrored, Landscapes; DePaul University School of Music Student Composition Recital
  • January 2019 - Landscapes; Aurora Lawrie, DePaul University School of Music senior recital
  • May 2018 - static electricity; DePaul University School of Music Composer’s Forum