The Complete Artistic Self: Five Collaborators Talk about Barbara Hannigan

Who is Barbara Hannigan, as a singer, performer, conductor, mentor, andcommunity-involved musician? What is the impact of her personality on the musicscene? How has her artistic character evolved throughout her formative andprofessional years? With these questions in mind, I interviewed five of Hannigan’sclosest, and most important collaborators and mentors: Hans Abrahamsen, GeorgeBenjamin, Gary Kulesha, Mary Morrison and Thomas Morris. Individually, theinterviews shed light on specific phases and events in Hannigan’s career, from herundergraduate studies to the present. Taken as a whole, they open the door tounderstanding Barbara Hannigan as a complete—and completelyfearless—artist.