Dr. Erin Hanke is the inaugural managing director of the Campus Commons Performance Hall at the University of Northern Colorado. She also serves as organist and choir accompanist at Cornerstone Community Church and hosts a weekly radio program on KRFC beginning in August 2019. Dr. Hanke previously served as the inaugural director of the Whitney Center for the Arts at Sheridan College. While in Sheridan, she also served as vice president of the city council, on the boards of the Sheridan Public Arts Committee and Critical Air Service Team, and created Witzel Academy, which provided fully-subsidized music lessons to students with financial need.
While in New York City, Dr. Hanke was artist-in-residence at the CUNY Queens College Museum of Art for the exhibition Express|Local, directedx period-ensemble Kielbasa Harmonika, and appeared at Carnegie Hall in workshop with L'Arpeggiata and Waits Trio. While at Mannes College she performed at Alice Tully Hall with the Mannes Orchestra and as a concerto soloist with the baroque ensemble. Dr. Hanke has studied with ChristopheRoussett at Piccola Accademia di Montisi, Italy, with Ketil Haugsand at the Academia de Musica Antiga de Lisboa, Portugal, Ringve Gourse in Norway and in masterclasses with Davitt Moroney, and both Wieland and Barthold Kuijken.
Erin Hanke holds a doctorate in historical music from SUNY Stony Brook where she was teaching assistant to Arthur Haas and recipient of a full Staller scholarship. Her doctoral paper considered the setting of Johann Sebastian Bach’s chorale “Ich habe genug” within Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto. Her lecture recital was entitled “Bach’s Humor: The Capriccio in B-flat Major as Parody.”
Dr. Hanke holds a Masters of Music from Mannes College in New York City and completed studies in organ performance with Dr. John Chappell Stowe at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she holds degrees in Mathematics and Art History.
While in New York City, Dr. Hanke was artist-in-residence at the CUNY Queens College Museum of Art for the exhibition Express|Local, directedx period-ensemble Kielbasa Harmonika, and appeared at Carnegie Hall in workshop with L'Arpeggiata and Waits Trio. While at Mannes College she performed at Alice Tully Hall with the Mannes Orchestra and as a concerto soloist with the baroque ensemble. Dr. Hanke has studied with ChristopheRoussett at Piccola Accademia di Montisi, Italy, with Ketil Haugsand at the Academia de Musica Antiga de Lisboa, Portugal, Ringve Gourse in Norway and in masterclasses with Davitt Moroney, and both Wieland and Barthold Kuijken.
Erin Hanke holds a doctorate in historical music from SUNY Stony Brook where she was teaching assistant to Arthur Haas and recipient of a full Staller scholarship. Her doctoral paper considered the setting of Johann Sebastian Bach’s chorale “Ich habe genug” within Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto. Her lecture recital was entitled “Bach’s Humor: The Capriccio in B-flat Major as Parody.”
Dr. Hanke holds a Masters of Music from Mannes College in New York City and completed studies in organ performance with Dr. John Chappell Stowe at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she holds degrees in Mathematics and Art History.
