The "hannahlog"

Music Composition

• Writing collaboration with local pop rock-country band Terry Got Fired. 

• Songs currently in production for Chicago-based bluegrass group The Greenleaf Band.

• Experimental media music collaboration project with fellow composer, Laura Garvin known as the Daytime Owls.

• Violin/vocal parts written & recorded for original singer-songwriter band Leonum.

• Freelance string writing/arranging for various Chicago clients.

• Music for the play “Point & Shoot", for Cold Basement Dramatics.

• Music for the play “Marisol”

• Music for the play “Mr. Marmalade”, for Dream Sequence Theatre Productions.

• “Nature Sounding”, music for short film created by JB Shiess, premiered by the Chicago Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.

• Battle scene from “Pancho Villa”, for studio orchestra, Semester in LA recorded at Capitol Records.  

• Short scene 'teaser' from the play 'Marisol' using original music from the theatrical play.

• Original music/video production for stage reading promo video "Edge of Life" by Richard Zieman.

• “Traversing the Upward Road”, for string quartet.

• “Tangent”, duet for electric guitar + violin w/effects pedal.

• “Overflow”, for solo violin w/effects pedal.

• "Dance All Night" original song written in collaboration by the Suburban Cowboys.

• “Satellite Heart” by Anya Marina, experimental keyboard/violin/electronic layered additions to original track for creative learning purposes, Avi & Wats.

• "Alive"  music video, writing & recording collaboration (vocals at 2:18) with AltruistMusic.

• Numerous arrangements/transcriptions done for other artists & clients, many currently sold in Hannah K's Music SHOP.

Music Performance

•  Suburban Cowboys, (Chicago's premier country cover band), fiddle player & lead female vocalist.

• Made in America - a tribute to Toby Keith, (the best in the USA), fiddler & backup vocalist.

• Leonum ('Americana'/rock band), violinist & vocalist.

• The Greenleaf Band (folk/bluegrass band), violinist & vocalist.

• Chicago Street Strings (co-founder, versatile & classically trained musicians), violinist.

• Star Gate Music Productions (violinist)

• Wade Magee (country singer-songwriter), local bar performances.

• Kill Devil Hills (songwriter/folk acoustic group)

• Jin & Tonic (fiddle player & vocalist)

• Jennifer Fletcher & the Reckoning (fiddle player)

• Freelance solo violinist, (weddings, social events, etc.)

•  Chicago Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Concertmaster

• Lake Shore Symphony Orchestra, violinist

• Trippin' Billies, (Dave Matthews tribute cover band), fiddle player

• Bone Whiskey (steam-punk country music band), violinist & backup vocalist

• Heartland Star (country cover band), violinist & lead female vocalist

• City Lights Orchestra, violinist

• The Neopolitones Trio (pop and classical string music), 1st violinist

• Voltaic String Project (unique popular/classical music arrangements), violinist

• Performed with local Chicago bands - Matt Kelly Band, Cobalt & the Hired Guns, Ayanami, Midnight Vespers, Cold Blue Kid, & State & Madison & more.

• South of 80, (local pop cover band), performed violin with the band for Eve of the Eve 2 years in a row.

• Senn Alan Band (fiddle fill-in for Bub City Show)

Performance Venues

Lincoln Hall/Scuba's, Empty Bottle, Chicago Theatre, Metro, Cubby Bear, Old Crow, (River North & Wrigleyville), Bub City, (River North & Rosemont), Beat Kitchen, Sub T, Reggie's, Double Door, City Winery, Chicago's Homegrown Festival,  & many others.

Belmont & Sheffield Music Festival, Retro on Roscoe, Wicker Park Summer Concert, Palatine Fest, Algonquin Fest, McHenry County Fest, Bourbon St., Skooters, Firewater Saloon, Durty Nellie's, River's Casino (The Cube), Hollywood Casino, the Black Sheep, Bottom Lounge, Martyr's, Hideout, Uncommon Ground, Salvage One, Underground Wonder Bar, Rock Island Brewing Company, Blarney Island, Old Towne Pub, Morton Arboretum, Mercury Ballroom, Limelight Eventplex, the Vogue Theatre, South Loop Rock Fest, Square Kelt, Joe's on Weed St. & Joe's Live Rosemont, Sideouts, Retro on Roscoe, the Vogue Theatre, the Rave, Edgewater Fest, HOME Bar, CD & ME, Navy Pier Beer Garden, Chicago Ale Fest, Niko's Tavern, Nevin's Brewing Company, Castle Theatre, & so many more.

• The Listening Room Cafe - Leonum

• Tequila Cowboy - Suburban Cowboys

WISCONSIN

• Country Thunder - Suburban Cowboys, (Twin Lakes)

• Musky Fest - Suburban Cowboys, (Hayward)

MINNESOTA

• Toby Keith's I Love This Bar - Suburban Cowboys, (St. Louis Park)

OHIO

• Tequila Cowboy - Suburban Cowboys (Columbus)

Recording

• Comma Music (violin recording for commercials)

• Darin Helton - singer/songwriter/guitar player (record violin/vocals on his original music).

• Leonum Americana band (recorded violin/harmony vocals on the latest album 'Moments').

• Recorded at many local recording venues - Gravity Studios, Fort Knox Studios, Sounds Vault, Uptown Recording, Music Garage, Fullerton Studios, & many more.

• Mario Massi w/ Reckless Cowboys (violin & vocal recording for original country songs).

• Recorded for artists Edward Hamel, Sam Trump, Matt Jones, Manny Garcia, Left Hand Signal, The Erratics, Aaron Williams & more.

Other

• Communications/Social Media Specialist for Leonum 

• Social Media Specialist for HRP Chicago 

• Social Media & Website Construction for Chicago Street Strings 

• Social Media & Website Construction for Daytime Owls

• Have taught beginner violin lessons as the occasions arise for 5+ years.

• Violin teacher at Rock House in Wilmette.

• Violin teacher at Flatts & Sharp in Chicago.