Hanna Stotland's RARB bio

My mother had the foresight to give birth to my mezzo-soprano sister Eve twenty months before my alto arrival, so I've been harmonizing since I was old enough to toddle to the piano. Joining the Chicago Children's Choir at age seven and the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company of Chicago at age eleven seemed as natural as diaphragmatic breathing.

I took a crooked path from choir to a cappella. I flunked out of high school, got a GED, and worked as a museum guide, OMNIMAX projectionist, and freelance caterer before ending up at Harvard College four years later. There, I found my beloved Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones. I was alto section leader and business manager for the Veritones, and also sang with the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, the university's premiere mixed choir. I stuck around at Harvard for law school, where I sang tenor with the Sisters of Kuumba, an a cappella group dedicated to African-American music, and served as musical director for the Law School's Drama Society. Today, I'm clerking for a federal judge in Chicago, but I know I'll always keep my music going, too. Judging at the ICCA and writing for RARB are two ways I stay involved in a world I love...one that's much more interesting than contracts and torts!

Reviews by Hanna Stotland

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	The Midnight Ramblers (University of Rochester) - Alternate Route [05 Oct 2004]
	The Princeton University Wildcats (Princeton University) - Taken by the Sky [30 Sep 2004]
	Company B (Brandeis University) - Almost Legal [10 Aug 2004]
	Sixth Wave - It Will Come to You [19 Jul 2004]
	The Sirens (University of Southern California) - Tied to the Mast [03 Jun 2004]
	The Faux Paz (University of Maryland) - We Steal Your Songs [01 May 2004]
	The Sirens (The University of Richmond) - Feel It Now [08 Mar 2004]
	Flying Pickets - Next Generation - Live in Hamburg [16 Dec 2003]
	Chanteuse - It's A Good Day! [09 Dec 2003]
	Fourth Avenue - Scrapbook [07 Nov 2003]
	The Midnight Ramblers (University of Rochester) - All Sales Final [08 Oct 2003]
	Wolfgang - Tailgate Special [13 Sep 2003]
	The House Jacks - Unbroken [16 Aug 2003]
	The Octaves (The University of Richmond) - This Complete Breakfast [09 Aug 2003]
	Clef Hangers (University of North Carolina) - Breeze [29 Jul 2003]
	Yellowjackets (University of Rochester) - Nature's Call [20 Jun 2003]
	Melodious Thunk (Northwestern University) - Dr. Strangethunk, OR: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the A Cappella [02 Jun 2003]
	Basix - Embodiment [28 May 2003]
	Cappella Gloriana - O Holy Night - Christmas with Cappella Gloriana [21 May 2003]
	The Princeton Footnotes (Princeton University) - Purple Tides [02 Apr 2003]
	The Princeton Footnotes (Princeton University) - Footnote Jam 2000 [30 Mar 2003]
	WHS Octets (Winchester High School) - Something Good [28 Mar 2003]
	Purple Haze (Northwestern University) - Out of the Band [26 Mar 2003]
	Dartmouth Aires (Dartmouth College) - Black Tie Affaire [26 Feb 2003]
	Shades (Yale University) - Perspective [16 Jan 2003]
	Random Voices (University of California Los Angeles) - Random Voices [27 Dec 2002]
	The Sirens (University of Southern California) - Nectar and Ambrosia [26 Dec 2002]
	AKSARA - Gently Enter [12 Dec 2002]
	Brown Derbies (Brown University) - Hybrid [03 Dec 2002]
	AHQ - Lookin' Up [04 Nov 2002]
	Dartmouth Cords (Dartmouth College) - Elements of Style [06 Oct 2002]
	Kaskeset (Binghamton University) - Made From The Best Jews on Earth [24 Sep 2002]
	Fourth Avenue - 100% [21 Sep 2002]
	Madrigaļa - Viva Voce [26 Aug 2002]
	The Ransom Notes (University of Texas at Austin) - Ransom Notes Live [21 Aug 2002]
	The Swingle Singers - Live in Japan [18 Aug 2002]
	The Virginia Gentlemen (University of Virginia) - Turning [07 Aug 2002]
	The 18 Wheelers (The Wheeler School) - Here We Go [05 Aug 2002]
	Brown'sTones (Brown University) - Femme Vox [03 Aug 2002]
	Yellowjackets (University of Rochester) - Darwin's Gambit [23 Jun 2002]
	Ensemble Amarcord - Hear the Voice [19 Jun 2002]
	SoCal VoCals (University of Southern California) - V3: Previously Unreleased [01 Jun 2002]
	Four His Glory - Will You Love Jesus More? [30 May 2002]
	Anonymous 4 - The Second Circle [28 May 2002]
	Random Association - Random Sample [19 May 2002]
	SoVoSó - Bridges [23 Apr 2002]
	Dilemma - Dilemma [16 Feb 2002]
	InDEciSIon? - Well -- Maybe! [16 Dec 2001]
	Basix - The Grass [11 Dec 2001]
	InsideOut - So It Seems [07 Dec 2001]
	The Midnight Ramblers (University of Rochester) - e=mr2 [20 Nov 2001]
	Duwende - Duwende [08 Oct 2001]
	Clef Hangers (University of North Carolina) - Elevation [14 Sep 2001]
	Melodious Thunk (Northwestern University) - Ye Olde THUNKe CDe [05 Aug 2001]
	Sixth Wave - Sixth Wave [24 Jul 2001]
	The House Jacks - Drive [13 Jul 2001]
	Chord On Blues (University of Pennsylvania) - White Space [28 Jun 2001]
	Purple Haze (Northwestern University) - Hooray for Everything [30 Apr 2001]
	Clefhangers (Columbia University) - Abandoned Studio [29 Apr 2001]
	The Shaggy Boys (Iowa State University) - Take Luck [28 Apr 2001]
	Yellowjackets (University of Rochester) - Visions [27 Apr 2001]
	The Bobs - Coaster [17 Apr 2001]
	The Virginia Gentlemen (University of Virginia) - Bizarro World [22 Mar 2001]
	Dartmouth Aires (Dartmouth College) - Interplanetairey [20 Feb 2001]
	Various Artists - Urban Harmony - R&B A Cappella [30 Dec 2000]
	Various Artists - Barbershop's Best [30 Dec 2000]
	The Binghamton Crosbys (Binghamton University) - Songs in the Key of Nishole [30 Dec 2000]
	The Bostonians (Boston College) - Quarter Past Nine [30 Dec 2000]
	The Sirens (University of Southern California) - Surreal [01 Dec 2000]
	A Cappella Angels - An A Cappella Christmas [30 Nov 2000]
	Mosaic Whispers (Washington University) - Throw Your Pennies at Someone Else [19 Nov 2000]
	Yellowjackets (University of Rochester) - Common Time [12 Nov 2000]
	Voices (Moses Brown School) - Baby On Board [05 Nov 2000]
	InsideOut - Experience [30 Oct 2000]
	Bear Necessities (Brown University) - Circus People [23 Oct 2000]
	VoiceBox - No Net [14 Oct 2000]
	The Northern Lights - Do You Hear the People Sing? [12 Oct 2000]
	Voices (Moses Brown School) - After Hours [05 Oct 2000]
	Brown Derbies (Brown University) - Jericho [30 Sep 2000]
	SoCal VoCals (University of Southern California) - This 2 Shall Rock [27 Aug 2000]
	Naturally Seven - Non-Fiction [06 Jul 2000]
	Random Association - Random Association [28 May 2000]

82 total reviews