Paul F. Hanna, DMA

Paul F. Hanna, DMA

Paul F. Hanna, DMA

Professor
Chair, Fine and Performing Arts
College of Arts and Sciences

Expertise/Specializations

  • Band
  • Orchestra
  • Composition
  • Conducting

Academic Appointments

Department

  • Fine & Performing Arts

Position

  • Professor

Biography

Frederick Hanna is Professor of Music and Interim Chair of the Fine and Performing Arts Department at Creighton University where he conducts the Creighton University Symphonic Band.  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 First Piano Concerto which was premiered on campus and at the Hoff Center for the Performing Arts in Council Bluffs, IA.  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, and also premiered "An Ignatian Saga" about the life and travels of Saint Ignatius.  His compositions are available exclusively from Aux Arcs Music, Fayetteville, Arkansas. www.auxarcsmusic.com

Publications and Presentations

Music

Research and Scholarship

Current Research Projects

  • Recent Compositions:
      Piano Concert No. 1, for solo piano and orchestra
      Knowing Good and Evil, ballet
      The Bell Tolls, for chamber ensemble and narrator
      24 Piano Studies, for solo piano
      Taxi Ride, for wind ensemble
       Bridge to Ojinaga, for symphonic band
      Ignatian Portrait, for chamber ensemble and narrator
      Symphony No. 5, for full orchestra
      Symphony No. 4, for full orchestra
      A Creighton Exhibition, for full orchestra
      Processus de Facundia-March No. 2, March, for full orchestra
      Symphony No. 3, for full orchestra
      Theme & Variations, for wind ensemble
      Windscrapers, for wind ensemble
      Symphony No. 2, for full orchestra
      Processus de Facundia, March, for full orchestra
      Symphony No. 1, for full orchestra