Hanan Rahman is a freelance horn player based in New York City. She is a member of the Sinfonietta, the Sugar Hill Salon Artistic Collective, Egalitarian Brass, and the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra, and has performed with Lights Out! The Nat King Cole Show at New York Theatre Workshop, Disney’s The Little Mermaid at Paper Mill Playhouse, ICELAND at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Frisson Ensemble, Blow Globe, the Saint Andrew Music Society, the New Jersey Festival Orchestra, the Modus Operandi Orchestra, and Sound Off! Music for Bail. She frequently subs with the Hartford, New Haven, Vermont, Allentown, Greenwich, Cape, New Bedford, York, and Ridgefield symphony orchestras, the Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic, and Symphony in C.

Other recent engagements include performances with the Yandel Sinfónico Tour at Radio City Music Hall and Central Park Summerstage, the world premiere of the reconstructed version of Pierre Boulez’s Poèsie pour pouvoir with the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, shows at Nublu with Blow Globe, Barbie: The Movie in Concert at the Hollywood Bowl, Fire Shut Up in My Bones with Terence Blanchard and the Hartford Symphony at the Bushnell Theater, and a sold-out run of Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert at the Kings Theatre. She has spent summers at Lucerne Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Grafenegg Festival, Orchestre de la Francophonie, Festival Napa Valley, and Mostly Modern Festival.

Hanan received a Bachelor of Music in Horn Performance and a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science at Boston University, and had further studies at the Manhattan School of Music, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the Royal College of Music in London. Her teachers include Frøydis Ree Wekre, Michelle Baker, Bernhard Scully, and Eric Ruske.