email:   hannahcraib(at)aol.com

Hannah Craib was born in 1985 in St.Monans, Fife and began learning the viola at the age of six with Joan Cuthbertson. When she was fifteen she was awarded a scholarship to study with James Durrant at the junior department of the Royal Scottish Academy in Glasgow and recently graduated from the Royal College of Music in London as a Foundation Scholar where she studied with both Simon Rowland-Jones and Susie Meszaros.

For the past five years Hannah has been invited to the prestigious Mendelssohn on Mull festival where she has performed alongside some of the world’s top chamber musicians including Samvel Bersegian, Marcia Crayford, Gaby Lester and Levon Chilingirian. Hannah is a member of Levon’s elite chamber orchestra Sayat Nova and is principal viola and one of the artistic directors of young Scottish string orchestra Scottish Connection.

This year Hannah is also a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra and continues to teach both violin and viola and freelance in London.