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