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 on and off Broadway, including with Les Misérables at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Lights Out! The Nat King Cole Show at New York Theatre Workshop, Disney’s The Little Mermaid at Paper Mill Playhouse, and ICELAND at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, and with the New World Symphony, 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.

She has spent the last two summers as an academist with the Lucerne Festival, where she performed with the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra in the world premiere of the reconstructed version of Pierre Boulez’s Poèsie pour pouvoir, the world premiere of Liza Lim’s “Tongue of the Land” concerto for orchestra with carnyx with soloist Marco Blauuw, and Mark Andre’s über for clarinet, orchestra, and live electronics with soloist Jörg Widmann. Ms. Rahman will return to Switzerland in November for Lucerne Festival Forward 2026 “Echoes of Schumann.” Past summers have included fellowships with 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.