HAN(NAH) VAN SCIVER

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The Beat.

I grew up taking drum lessons from my dad. And then from a person who wasn't my dad. I think percussion is at the core of who I am as an artist and performer. I also studied piano for ten years, and picked up a whole lot of other instruments along the way. I also write (a lot of) songs about "my feelings," and sometimes I record them.
I've played in pit bands, orchestras, jazz bands, folk bands, rock bands, and clown bands. I music direct and compose, and love creating live scoring for theatrical events. My current obsession is my BOSS RC-3 Loop Station pedal.
TOP PICK: NPR Music All Songs Considered, Tiny Desk Submission - 2018
"Have you ever placed your keys between your fingers while walking alone at night? In "Night Walking" by Gracie & The So Beautifuls, Hannah Van Sciver plays a ring of keys, their jangle a steady metronome for Gracie Martin's jazz vocals and lyrics...With its sparse rhythm, "Night Walking" is a defiant ballad for anyone who has bravely stepped outside at night, a Wolverine with makeshift claws." - Stefanie Fernández, NPR Music

Theatrical Scores

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Brown/Trinity Rep 
Macbeth -  Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre
Pericles - Die-Cast
Setting the Record Straight  - First Person Arts
2016 Young Voices Monologue Festival - Philadelphia Young Playwrights
Philadelphia Youth Theatre Festival - Prince Music Theater

Music Direction

Macbeth - Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre /
​dir. Carmen Kahn

King John - Revolution Shakespeare / dir. Dan Kern
Shrew - Reject Theatre Project / dir. Christine Freije

Accompaniment

Soft Butter - Ars Nova ANT Fest -
music by Éamon Boylan
Much Ado About Nothing - Delaware Shakespeare -
music by Michael Hahn
Ancient Future - Polyphone Festival -
​music by Storm Thomas
 
Hear Me War - 
​Philadelphia Women's Theatre Festival -
​music by Jacob Jarret & Sarah Galante

Love's Labours Lost - Revolution Shakespeare - music by Melissa Dunphy
Local Girls - Azuka Theatre - music by Rob Kaplowitz

Gracie Martin - Unconscious

Han is a featured percussionist on the inaugural album from Gracie & the So Beautifuls - listen below.

Mak - Splinters and papercuts

Music and lyrics for Slow Me Down are by Van Sciver, vocals and arrangement by Mak - listen below.

​I'M NOT MYSEFLF TODAY - PLANT ME HERE

Hannah recorded percussion for Plant Me Here's "I'm Not Myself Today" - an audio theatre project deconstructing the themes and character dynamics in Chekhov's "Three Sisters." Listen to Hourglass below, and the full album here.
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