Frederick Hanna, DMA

Frederick Hanna, DMA

Dr. Frederick Hanna

Office: Lied Education Center - Room 217

402-280-1124 (office)

fhanna@creighton.edu

Doctor of Musical Arts
New England Conservatory of Music
Boston, Massachusetts

Master of Music
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

Bachelor of Science in Education
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas

Biography

Frederick Hanna is Professor of Music and former Chair of the Fine and Performing Arts Department (2006-2016) at Creighton University where he conducts the Creighton University Symphonic Band.   Dr. Hanna holds degrees from the University of Arkansas, Northwestern University and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.  Premieres of his first three symphonies took place on the Creighton campus and he has conducted the first two in China at the Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China.  He recently completed his ballet, Knowing Good and Evil, which was performed with the Creighton Dance Company in the Fall of 2019.  Additionally, Hanna recently composed his first piano concerto which will be performed by the Creighton University Symphony Orchestra with Yulia Kalashnikova, piano.

 

Compositions

Orchestral

   Piano Concerto, No. 1 - 2021

   Knowing Good and Evil, Ballet - 2018

   Ignatian Portrait - 2016
         (For Orchestra and Narrator)

   Processus de Facundia March No. 2 - 2015

   Symphony No. 5 - 2015

   Symphony No. 4 - 2015

   A Creighton Exhibition - 2014

   Symphony No. 3 - 2014

   Symphony No. 2 - 2012

   Processus de Facundia - 2011

   Hunting Wabbits, transcription - 2010

   Symphony No. 1 - 2010

   Celebration Fanfare - 2002

Symphonic Band/Wind Ensemble

  Taxi Ride - 2018

  Bridge to Ojinaga - 2017

  Theme & Variations - 2014

  Suite for Symphonic Band - 2007
     Fantasy on the Blue and the Gold
     Scherzo
     Soundtrack

  Cabarrus County Overture - 2007

  Mission Symphonic March - 2005

  Laurel Brigade - 2002

  A Spring Fanfare - 2002

  Where Rainbows Fly - 2000

  Contrasts - 1999

Choral

  (Title) - (date)

Chamber Works

  The Bell Tolls (Chamber Orchestra and Narrator ) - 2019

  Procession (Violin/Viola) - 2001

  Fanfare No. 1 (Trumpet Duet) - 2001

  Scherzo (Woodwind Quintet) - 1999

  Blue Eyes (Voice/Piano) - 1999

Musicals

  Breakfast! (Manuscript)

  King of Kings (Manuscript) 2004/5

  Lewis & Clark Manifest Destiny: Part One - 2003

Arrangements

  Yankee Doodle - 1998 (1980/1)