Celtic Woman Forum
The Cast => Hannah Traynor => Topic started by: CWFella2011 on October 11, 2022, 01:55:27 PM
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Originally from Kilkenny, Hannah is a graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Over the last 10 years she has performed in several prestigious venues including The Waterfront Hall(Belfast), Her Majesty’s Theatre(London), National Concert Hall(Dublin), and Bunkamura Orchard Hall (Tokyo).
Hannah was a member of the Irish ensemble ‘Anúna’ for several years, with whom she toured across Europe, Asia and Morocco. She has had the opportunity to sing on several recordings with the group, including soundtracks for Nintendo. Some highlights during this time include the BBC proms in 2017, the Fes World Sacred Music Festival in Morocco, and a performance of ‘At the hawks well’ by W.B. Yeats in Tokyo with a Japanese noh theatre company.
She has been part of several opera productions, both during her studies and professionally, working with companies such as Irish National Opera and Opera Collective Ireland. In 2017 she performed a lead role at the Operavizsga Festival in Budapest, Hungary.
Hannah has performed the soprano solo in works like Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Allegri’s Miserere and Vivaldi’s Gloria with various choirs across Ireland.
Though classically trained, Hannah loves singing all genres. She is so excited to be joining Celtic Woman with such a fantastic line up of singers and musicians.
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For those not quite sure, her name is Hannah Traynor.
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Is Chloe done then?
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Is Chloe done then?
I don’t know if she was intended to be back permanently
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Is Chloe done then?
I don’t know if she was intended to be back permanently
I know that, what I'm wondering is does Hannah joining mean Chloe is done
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Is Chloe done then?
I don’t know if she was intended to be back permanently
I know that, what I'm wondering is does Hannah joining mean Chloe is done
Yes, at the final Postcards From Ireland show in Killarney, Chloe said it was her final show with the group.
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Is Chloe done then?
I don’t know if she was intended to be back permanently
I know that, what I'm wondering is does Hannah joining mean Chloe is done
Yes Chloe's contract is over she was always listed as a special guest
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Any idea how old Hannah is?
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She is so gorgeous! She looks a bit like Hayley. I can't wait to hear and see her with Celtic Woman!
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Looking forward to hearing her voice and seeing her perform!
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She is the second member to have their first tour be the Christmas tour.
Meghan is the other.
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Why is Hannah's picture in the CW website grayed out? Usually that means they are not current. The rest are in color. Couldn't CW post a color photo to help match the others?
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Why is Hannah's picture in the CW website grayed out? Usually that means they are not current. The rest are in color. Couldn't CW post a color photo to help match the others?
That is the photo thats always been there since they first posted a photo of her
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Did anyone hope the new member would be an alto like Eabha. Now that Hannah is on board wonder if she'll have Chloes spot or will they make changes which I doubt.
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Did anyone hope the new member would be an alto like Eabha. Now that Hannah is on board wonder if she'll have Chloes spot or will they make changes which I doubt.
I believe that the current lineup will remain for a long time. But we have to wait and see. I think Hannah will take a good part of Chloë's place, but I believe she will also do some of Mairead's parts, and this already started on last year's Christmas tour during Feliz Navidad, when Hannah did Mairead's part, and Muigen did Eabha's. But everything else was as expected: Hannah in Chloe/Eabha's place, Muirgen in Mairead's place, and Megan in Susan's place. I think I've mentioned this before, but this lineup reminds me a lot of the Home for Christmas DVD: Three sopranos are doing different lines. Meav first (highest), Susan second and Lisa L third ("lowest").
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Did anyone hope the new member would be an alto like Eabha. Now that Hannah is on board wonder if she'll have Chloes spot or will they make changes which I doubt.
I believe that the current lineup will remain for a long time. But we have to wait and see. I think Hannah will take a good part of Chloë's place, but I believe she will also do some of Mairead's parts, and this already started on last year's Christmas tour during Feliz Navidad, when Hannah did Mairead's part, and Muigen did Eabha's. But everything else was as expected: Hannah in Chloe/Eabha's place, Muirgen in Mairead's place, and Megan in Susan's place. I think I've mentioned this before, but this lineup reminds me a lot of the Home for Christmas DVD: Three sopranos are doing different lines. Meav first (highest), Susan second and Lisa L third ("lowest").
Also the 2013 lineup that was Lisa L, Mairead C and Susan!
I can acknowledge that back then there was a certain reason why it ended up that way for Susan replaced Lisa K and Mairead C replaced Chloe. On Emerald Susan did exact Lisa K placement. On HFC it moved Susan taking Chloe spot, Meav being the top soprano Lisa L spot (well Meav was Meav) and Lisa L went the Lisa K spot.
So everything had movement reason however now who would thought we'd see a return of this 3 soprano lineup. I always assumed Megan would take the lowest now and Muirgen would stay middle and Hannah the highest like Mairead C. Perhaps they couldn't find an alto or preferred now someone like Chloe or missing was the Mairead C high upper. Really interesting...
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Yes! I see it the same way. Megan (Lisa L/Lisa K); Muirgen (Susan/Chloe); Hannah (Meav) The songs that already exist will be what we're used to, of course, I don't think they'll make a change to what's already been done, but this new distribution is the most likely one for future albums, and I'm very excited to see it.
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Did anyone hope the new member would be an alto like Eabha.
Yes, I'm glad you mentioned it. Nothing "wrong" with all sopranos, of course. And it could be personal preference.
But I was hoping for an alto / contralto. When Eabha was in the group (or even Chloe "version 2.0" I like to say), it made the sopranos stand out that much more and vice versa. I loved Eabha & Mairead C together.
Well, I can't wait to hear more from Hannah!