Conor Hanick

Conor Hanick joined the Music Academy as a teaching artist in 2012 and has led the solo piano program since 2019. In his expanded role as Creative & Artistic Advisor, Hanick now helps guide the Academy’s broader creative vision during a period of growth and transformation. His work, shaped by deep engagement with a wide-ranging repertoire and a commitment to collaborative music-making, focuses on developing artistic through-lines across the Academy’s Summer Music Festival & School and year-round programs. He will help design signature initiatives for the Academy’s 80th Anniversary, and contribute to the artistic mission of the planned downtown Music Education Center.

Regarded as one of his generation’s most inquisitive interpreters of music new and old, Hanick has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the world and collaborated with today’s leading artists and ensembles. A fierce advocate for the music of today, he has premiered more than 200 works and collaborated with composers including Pierre Boulez, Kaija Saariaho, Steve Reich, Matthew Aucoin, Nico Muhly, Tania León, and Samuel Carl Adams. Hanick is a founding member of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) and a faculty member at the CUNY Graduate Center, Mannes College, and The Juilliard School.