Hanan Rahman is a freelance horn player based in New York City. She is a member of the Sinfonietta, the Sugar Hill Salon Artistic Collective, Egalitarian Brass, and the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra, and has performed with Lights Out! The Nat King Cole Show at New York Theatre Workshop, Disney’s The Lititle Mermaid at Paper Mill Playhouse, ICELAND at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Frisson Ensemble, Blow Globe, the Saint Andrew Music Society, the New Jersey Festival Orchestra, the Modus Operandi Orchestra, and Sound Off! Music for Bail. She frequently subs with the Hartford, New Haven, Vermont, Allentown, Greenwich, Cape, New Bedford, York, and Ridgefield symphony orchestras, the Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic, and Symphony in C.

Other recent engagements include the Yandel Sinfónico Tour at Central Park Summerstage, Hartford Symphony’s Talcott Mountain Music Festival, shows at Nublu with Blow Globe, Barbie: The Movie in Concert at the Hollywood Bowl, Saarihao’s Laterna Magica at the Fisher Center at Bard with The Orchestra Now, Fire Shut Up in My Bones with Terence Blanchard and the Hartford Symphony at the Bushnell Theater, and a sold-out run of Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert at the Kings Theatre. In summer 2025 she returns to the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra as the festival celebrates the 100th birthday of the Academy’s founder, Pierre Boulez. Past summers have included fellowships at Spoleto Festival USA, Grafenegg Festival, Orchestre de la Francophonie, Festival Napa Valley, and Mostly Modern Festival.

Hanan received a Bachelor of Music in Horn Performance and a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science at Boston University, and had further studies at the Manhattan School of Music, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the Royal College of Music in London. Her teachers include Frøydis Ree Wekre, Michelle Baker, Bernhard Scully, and Eric Ruske.