Hannah Seymour is an oboist studying with Rosie Jenkins and Christine Pendrill for her Masters of Music in Performance at the Royal College of Music, having graduated with a First Class Honours from the Royal Northern College of Music in 2022. Whilst at the RNCM she was awarded the Winfield/Graham Solo Wind Prize, and Second Prize in the Evelyn Rothwell (Barbirolli) Oboe Prize.

Hannah has had a variety of performance experience to date, ranging from performing with the BBC Philharmonic, to playing at the Chipping Campden Music Festival, to releasing an album with her prize-winning reed quintet ‘Northern Reeds’ in February 2024.

She is a co-founder of ‘EMPOWER’ an initiative which started in late 2021, born out of the desire for gender equality within the music industry, and aims to shine a spotlight on female composers and musicians to create positive change.

Hannah joined the Benedetti Foundation as an Instrumental Ambassador in 2023 and is currently in her second year of the programme.