ADMH

Adam Hanna, also professionally known as ADMH (Adam H), is a sound explorer, composer, saxophonist, educator, and interdisciplinary artist. In 2026, he earned a Dual Master’s in Instrumental Performance and Jazz Studies from Bowling Green State University, receiving the prestigious J. Paul Kennedy Music Achievement Award. 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 classical, jazz, and contemporary music groups. 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 2024 PMEA In-Service Conference Invitation, the 2025 International Saxophone Symposium (U.S. Navy Band), and the 2026 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference.

He has appeared as a featured performer with ensembles such as the Williamsport City Jazz All-Stars, Kase Quartet, and Sam Shaba’s Sounds of Africa Group. During his time in Ohio, he played in Evan Palermo’s EMP Trio which received the Crown Royal Cleveland Music Award for Best Jazz [Group] in 2026. 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). ADMH’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).

As an educator, ADMH has a depth of real world cooperative and professional experience. 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 held 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, the Collaborative Wind Project 2023, the Otterbein SeniorLife Concerts Program 2025, and numerous school masterclasses with The Big Su.

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. In Fall 2026, ADMH will enter the ethnomusicology program at the University of Maryland as a Ph.D. student. His research will focus on performance practice, instrumental pedagogy, and education systems in El Salvador, with special interest in the intersections of sound, culture, and identity.

ADMH is an active recording artist and composer with a growing catalog of original works and collaborations. His discography includes four self-released albums and multiple singles spanning contemporary, jazz, and experimental styles. Recent releases include Leaf (The Complete Work) (2026), Stella (2026), 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 in select tracks 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.

ADMH has studied saxophone under Dr. Gail Levinsky, Dr. John Sampen, and David Bixler, and he is also an alumni of 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, and he was a select performer in masterclass with Nicolas Arsenijevic, the current professor of saxophone at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.