Hannah Lena Rebel (born 21 May 2001) is an Austrian composer, dancer, choreographer, author and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).
After her professional dancing career at the Ballet Academy of the Vienna State Opera and the Music and Arts University (MUK) during her childhood and youth, she first studied Composition and Conducting at the Prayner Conservatory and afterwards Media Composition with a focus on Film Scoring at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW) with Walter Werzowa.[1]
Her musical work includes an orchestral track called Volatile Vision[2] for Sounds of Red Bull, chosen as part of the Red Bull Scoring Challenge 2023,[3] which was recorded in February 2024 at the Synchron Stage Vienna and premiered in June 2024 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW).[4]
She is a Fellow of various High-IQ societies like Mensa International or the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry. Since 2023, she is also a Young Fellows Advisory Board Member of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).
Hannah Lena Rebel was born in Vienna, Austria. She started a professional ballet career at age 3 that brought her into the Ballet Academy of the Vienna State Opera in 2007 and into the Music and Arts University (MUK) in 2012.
During her childhood and youth, she has been dancing in many performances like Nabucco,[5] The Magic Flute, the Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn in 2011[6] and in theaters like the MuTh,[7] Odeon Theatre,[8] Orpheum, Werk X, Theater Akzent and many more. She has also been dancing or performing in films and documentaries like Universum History or the series Meiberger - Im Kopf des Täters.[9]
At age 16, she joined Mensa International and within the next years, many other High-IQ societies like the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (>99.9th percentile) that published several of her philosophical and allegorical texts called Musical Phenomena in Everyday Life in their journal Telicom.[10]
At the same time, she also had lessons in piano, choir and music theory and graduated from high school (Matura) additionally in music and piano before she started studying Composition and Conducting at the Prayner Conservatory in 2019.
After that, she started studying Composition and Music Theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW) and because of her passion for film music, decided to choose Media Composition with a focus on Film Scoring with Walter Werzowa for her Master of Arts degree, which she got in June 2024.
At first, Hannah Lena Rebel has been working as a choreographer and dance instructor for several school musical projects and ballet schools. From 2020 to 2024, she has been teaching music at the Beth-Jakov school in Vienna, for which she also composed a play called Im Spielzeugladen that was performed in 2022 and published as a book called Whimsical Wonders - A Toy Store's Timeless Tales,[11] illustrated by Slovakian artist and Fellow of the RSA, Petra Stefankova. She has also published the philosophical children's book The Fly on the Honey Bread[12] which was originally based on one of her texts called Musical Phenomena in Everyday Life and for which Petra also provided her beautiful illustrations.[13]
In October 2023, Hannah was part of the Red Bull Scoring Challenge[14] where one of her orchestral compositions called Volatile Vision was chosen to be recorded at the Synchron Stage Vienna and produced for the album The Orchestrals 1[15] for Sounds of Red Bull. Her musical work also includes short films in collaboration with the Vienna Film Academy,[16] an album of tension/suspense/horror tracks for the production library Amadea Music Productions, compositions for BigBand like her jazz composition Toccatta, performed in 2022 at Porgy & Bess with the Austrian Jazzcomposers Orchestra and published by Universal Edition,[17] a collaboration with the sound library Triumph Audio and more.
Besides her careers in composition and dance, Hannah has also got certificates and Mini-MBA's from the European Institute of Leadership and Management in Business Administration, Innovation Management, Projekt Management, Leadership and many more.
In September 2023, she has become a part of the Royal Society of Arts Young Fellows Advisory Board. She has also been part of the RSA's annual Fellow Festival in London,[18] has been listed in the RSA's 50 Famous Fellows list and has been invited to the RSA's President's Dinner with HRH The Princess Royal in 2024. In July 2024, she got interviewed by The NYC Daily Post for a two-part feature about her creative endeavours[19] that ranked on top of The NYC Daily Post's Popular News a few days after.[20]