ADMH

Adam Hanna, also professionally known as ADMH (Adam H), is a saxophonist, educator, and interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges performance, scholarship, and creative collaboration. He is currently pursuing a Dual Master’s in Instrumental Performance and Jazz Studies at Bowling Green State University, where he serves as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. He earned his Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Susquehanna University in 2024, where he was awarded the Senior Academic Excellence Award, Outstanding Senior Musician Award, and numerous academic and performance honors including The Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award (2023), The Elizabeth G. Eyster Award in Music (2022), and the PMEA Council TTRR Continuing Education Scholarship (2023).

ADMH maintains an active performance career spanning chamber, jazz, and contemporary music. He is a founding member of The Big Su Saxophone Quartet, an award-winning and nationally recognized ensemble specializing in contemporary repertoire. The quartet was the First Prize recipient at the 2025 Douglas Wayland Chamber Music Competition, as well as Silver Medal and Saxophone Prize winners at the 2025 Coltman Chamber Music Competition in Austin, Texas. His chamber music involvement has brought him to stages at major conferences such as the International Saxophone Symposium (U.S. Navy Band), the PMEA In-Service Conference Invitation, multiple engagements at Bowling Green State University’s Discovery Day, and outreach festivals throughout the Midwest.

He has appeared as a featured performer with ensembles such as the EMP Trio, KASE Quartet, and Williamsport City Jazz All-Stars, and has performed at venues including Howard’s Club H, Blue Jazz+ Akron, Café 210 West, The Golden Road, and Starling Lounge / Four Keys Brewing. In Fall 2025, he was a guest artist on the main stage of the Black Swamp Arts Festival in Bowling Green, Ohio. His diverse performance background includes work across genres— ranging from jazz combo and wind ensemble settings to fully staged operas and musicals, including Urinetown (2022), The Pirates of Penzance (2023), and SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical (2025). Hanna’s conducting work includes assistant roles in two co-production operas, notably the U.S. fully staged premiere of Ethel Smyth’s 1923 Fête Galante and Gian Francesco Malipiero’s The False Harlequin (1925). His experience reflects an expanding interest in the intersections of performance, gender, and institutional systems within operatic history and production.

As an educator, ADMH brings both K–12 and collegiate experience to his teaching. He completed his student teaching at Central Dauphin High School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he instructed three wind bands, two jazz bands, music theory, percussion methods, and marching band. At Bowling Green State University, he holds a Cooperative Band Director Assistantship, directing bands grades 5–8 at St. Patrick of Heatherdowns School. In addition, he has experience organizing and teaching private instrumental lessons through the Susquehanna University Preparatory Program (2020–2024), and has participated in numerous educational outreach initiatives such as This is Jazz 2023, Jazz on the Block 2022-2024, and the Collaborative Wind Project 2023.

Since 2024, ADMH has served as Head Librarian at the New England Music Camp in Sidney, Maine, performing with jazz faculty ensembles under the direction of Alan Ferber 2023, Blayne Salerni 2024, and Peter Holsberg 2025.

In Summer of 2023, ADMH traveled to Iceland as part of a university interdisciplinary fieldwork program where he conducted research on the participation of graffiti and street art on Environmentalism under the mentorship of anthropologist Dr. John Bodinger and ecologist Dr. Ahmed Lachhab. His research interests now explore the intersections of music, culture, and institutional systems, with a growing focus on Latin American cultural studies and music reception.

ADMH is an active recording artist and composer with a growing catalog of original works and collaborations. His discography includes two self-released albums and multiple singles, spanning contemporary, jazz, and experimental styles. Recent releases include Seeds and the Creatures That Eat Them (2025), The Breath He Could Draw (Remastered) (2025), Waiting for Luca (2025), and Twigs and Mud (A Home for Dead Children) (2025). He also appeared as principle saxophonist on Dr. Eric L. Hinton’s debut wind band album River Winds (Mark Records, 2023). As a composer, Hanna’s recent works include Leaf (2025), El Espacio (2024), Who Am I? Where Do I Belong? (2024), and Where the World Meets to Prey (2024). His arrangements and compositions have been performed in various settings, emphasizing cross-genre instrumentation and improvisational dialogue.

Committed to growth and discpline in performance practice, ADMH has studied saxophone with Dr. Gail Levinsky, Dr. John Sampen, and David Bixler, and has participated in the Frederick L. Hemke Saxophone Institute (2022), studying with esteemed pedagogues Dr. Noah Evans, Kyle Horsch, and Dr. Nathan Nabb. He has performed in masterclasses with notable jazz artists Ron Blake, Stephan Crump, and David Stryker. He was also a select performer in masterclass with Nicolas Arsenijevic, the current professor of saxophone at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.