Hannah Solveij Gramß (1998) was born in Nuremberg in a family of musicians. She started playing the violin at the age of 4 and received lessons among others from the Russian violin teacher Irina Goldstein, who accompanied her to pre-college as a youth student at the Würzburg University of Music under Prof. Herwig Zack. She completed her subsequent bachelor's degree in 2021. In the meantime, Hannah Solveij went to Lyon (F) for an Erasmus scholarship and extended her studies with Prof. Marianne Piketty at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon. She is currently completing her master's degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Tjeerd Top.
Hannah Solveij won an academy position in the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2021, which was advertised throughout Europe.
As a soloist, Hannah Solveij is an increasingly sought-after artist who likes to cross genre boundaries. She was soloist at the Würzburg Mozartfest, performing Mozart violin concertos, as well as soloist for violin concertos from the modern era (Barber violin concerto with Noord Nederland Orkest). During the last months of her bachelor's degree and at the onset of the corona crisis, Hannah Solveij developed and composed her own violin concerto for solo violin, live electronics and orchestra together with the Australian composer and conductor Gordon Hamilton. In January 2021, the cross-over violin concerto "Loop Guts" was successfully premiered as a streaming concert in the Düsseldorf Tonhalle with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra and was even nominated in 2 categories (Video Clip of the Year, Composer of the Year) at Opus Klassik. Further concerts followed with L'Orchestre National de Lyon, the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. The violinist has already won numerous prizes at national and international competitions and was also awarded both for the “Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis für Musik” as for the City of Würzburg's cultural sponsorship prize. The jury was impressed by the "very unconventional and versatile musician" and made special mention of her exceptional musicality and "charismatic stage presence". During her years of study, she received the scholarship "Deutschlandstipendium” for her musical achievements in October 2020, as well as a the scholarship from the "Young Art and New Paths" program of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, and the Willem Mengelberg Fond from the Concertgebouw Orchestra.
The young violinist was already a member of several renowned youth orchestras in her youth. She was a member of the German National Youth Orchestra, the Bavarian State Youth Orchestra, the Youth Festival Orchestra and the “Junge deutsche Philharmonie”, where she had the opportunity to perform under renowned conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Mariss Jansons, Jonathan Nott etc. in the world's largest concert halls.
After her time as an academist in the Royal Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam, she continued to work as a chamber musician with musicians from the Concertgebouworkest as part of the Kamerata and Chamber Orchestra RCO and continued to perform as a violinist in the Concertgebouworkest.
In 2022/23 she was engaged as a guest presenter in the TV production "Symphony Insiders" and "Symphony Night Live", a new video streaming platform "Symphony", which aims to present classical music to a young, open-minded and interested audience through interviews or behind-the-scenes insights.
In addition to her work as a musician and presenter, Hannah can also be seen as a dancer, video artist, voice actress and actress in various short films.
In her own short film "Coquelicot" by Malo Plisson and Hannah Solveij, the artistic genres of music, theatricality and dance are fused together.
As a singer in the vocal ensemble "Chants Fleuris" (2021, special BR award for a special video corona production), she also forms a vocal trio together with her sister and mother.