Fine and Performing Arts
Office: Lied Education Center - Room 217
402-280-1124 (office)
fhanna@creighton.edu
Doctor of Musical Arts
New England Conservatory of Music
Boston, Massachusetts
Master of Music
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
Bachelor of Science in Education
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Frederick Hanna is Professor of Music and former Chair of the Fine and Performing Arts Department (2006-2016) at Creighton University where he conducts the Creighton University Symphonic Band and University Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Hanna holds degrees from the University of Arkansas, Northwestern University and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Premieres of his first three symphonies took place on the Creighton campus and he has conducted the first two in China at the Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China. He recently completed his Fourth Symphony, commissioned for the 2,500-year anniversary of Yangzhou, China, as well as his Fifth Symphony, dedicated to the People of Tibet. Additionally, Hanna recently composed "A Creighton Exhibition" celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Fine & Performing Arts Department at Creighton University and his "Processus de Facundia-March No. 2" for the ceremony inaugurating the Rev. Daniel Hendrickson, S.J., Ph.D., as 25th president of Creighton University. His compositions are available exclusively from Aux Arcs Music, Fayetteville, Arkansas. www.auxarcsmusic.com
Orchestral
Symphony No. 6 (in process)
Knowing Good and Evil, Ballet (in process)
Ignatian Portrait - 2016
(For Orchestra and Narrator)
Processus de Facundia March No. 2 - 2015
Symphony No. 5 (Tibet) - 2015
Symphony No. 4 (The Grand Canal) - 2015
A Creighton Exhibition - 2014
Symphony No. 3 (Beijing) - 2014
Symphony No. 2 (Shanghai) - 2012
Processus de Facundia - 2011
Hunting Wabbits, transcription - 2010
Symphony No. 1 (Nanjing) - 2010
Celebration Fanfare - 2002
Symphonic Band/Wind Ensemble
Wrightsville Beach (in process)
'Untitled' March (in process)
Taxi Ride - 2017
Bridge to Ojinaga - 2017
Theme & Variations - 2014
Suite for Symphonic Band - 2007
Fantasy on the Blue and the Gold
Scherzo
Soundtrack
Cabarrus County Overture - 2007
Mission Symphonic March - 2005
Laurel Brigade - 2002
A Spring Fanfare - 2002
Where Rainbows Fly - 2000
Contrasts - 1999
Choral
(Title) - (date)
Chamber Works
Procession (Violin/Viola) - 2001
Fanfare No. 1 (Trumpet Duet) - 2001
Scherzo (Woodwind Quintet) - 1999
Blue Eyes (Voice/Piano) - 1999
Musicals
Breakfast! (Manuscript)
King of Kings (Manuscript) 2004/5
Lewis & Clark Manifest Destiny: Part One - 2003
Arrangements
Yankee Doodle - 1998 (1980/1)
