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 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 orchestras throughout the northeast, including the New Haven, Vermont, Hartford, Allentown, Greenwich, Cape, New Bedford, York, and Ridgefield symphony orchestras, the Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic, and Symphony in C.

Her recent engagements include a show at Nublu with Blow Globe, Barbie: The Movie in Concert at the Hollywood Bowl, a sold-out run of Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert at the Kings Theatre, and the world premiere of the opera ICELAND at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club. In summer 2025 she joins the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra as the festival celebrates the 100th birthday of the Academy’s founder, Pierre Boulez. Past summers have included fellowships at Spoleto Festival USA, Grafenegg Festival, Orchestre de la Francophonie, Festival Napa Valley, and Mostly Modern Festival.

She 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.