Known for her work championing female voices in the keyboard repertoire, American pianist Hannah Roberts has performed throughout the United States and abroad in Austria, Serbia, and the United Kingdom. Her scholarship focuses on reviving the works of overlooked female composers with a special emphasis on Scottish-American pianist Helen Hopekirk, and her album Celtic Legends: The Piano Music of Helen Hopekirk will be released by Navona Records in Fall 2026.
Along with her active performing career, Roberts maintains a vibrant profile as a clinician, pedagogue, and researcher. Her articles on female composers have appeared in American Music Teacher, Piano Magazine, and the MTNA e-Journal, and she was awarded the 2023 Edward T. Cone Fellowship from the Society for American Music for her research on Hopekirk’s piano music. She has presented lectures on female composers and piano pedagogy topics at the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (NCKP), College Music Society National Conference (CMS), National Association of Teachers of Singing National Conference (NATS), and state and national conferences of Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), and has also contributed video publications on American women composers to the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy.
Roberts currently serves as Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Alabama, where she teaches piano and piano pedagogy. She earned her D.M.A. in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Oklahoma and her M.M. in Piano Performance from the University of South Alabama. Her principal teachers include Jeongwon Ham and Robert Holm, and she studied piano pedagogy with Barbara Fast and Jane Magrath. She is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music and presently serves on the board of the Alabama State Music Teachers Association.