Hannah Donaldson, a home-educated 10th grader, began her career as a young artist with St. Louis Children’s Choirs in 2009, and currently sings with the Concert Choir. Fluent in Spanish, she has recently taught herself the French language and loves acting in musicals and plays as well. She has performed with the Hawthorne Players – in which her debut performance as “Molly” in the Broadway Musical, Annie, earned her a nomination for the Arts for Life – Best Juvenile Performance. She performed in the stage play, Wait Watchers, in which she not only acted, but featured a song she had written, “Keep Holding On.” Other theater companies Hannah has performed with are Gifted Productions’ Our Money Matters as “Prudence Piggy;” “Onsite Theater Company’s The Runaway Cupcake as “The Cupcake Woman;” and Variety Children’s Theatre in the Broadway Musical, Annie, as “Tess.”
During the Christmas Holiday in 2016, Hannah personally performed in concert and raised $1,200. To promote the concert she was featured on “The Thread STL” with Tim Ezell and Virginia Kerr. The proceeds entirely were donated to the Relief Foundation – an organization that provides education and relief to persons and families affected by the auto-immune disease, Scleroderma.
In 2012, Hannah wrote a collection of Christmas songs and in 2015 her first professional album entitled, “The Melodies of Christmas – Carols for Relief” was released. The proceeds from that album also benefited the Relief Foundation. During this time period Hannah was featured on “Show Me St. Louis” and HECTV – “State of the Arts” hosted by Victoria Babu.
Hannah and a few young ladies from the St. Louis Children’s Choirs formed a small singing group, “The Treblettes,” and performed at the release party. An employee of Barnes-Jewish Hospital who attended the release party was impressed with their performance. He invited the young ladies to sing at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine’s “Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration” the following January, 2016.
Hannah’s passion for singing outweighs her love of acting. She has been performing community service such as singing at Barnes-Jewish Hospital since she was 3 years old. She can be found performing at churches, charity events, hospitals, nursing homes, and retirement centers. She is excited to tour with the Choir to Scotland this upcoming June, 2018; but, not before going on a missions trip with Mission of Hope to the village of Titanyen near Port Au Prince, Haiti in January, 2018. Many fear her going on this mission trip to Haiti at such a young age due to the village’s (and much of Haiti) recovering from the earthquake of 2010 and the most recent hurricanes. Hannah simply replies with her face set as flint, “There is a need, I must go. Many are called to go, but if all called refuse to go, who will help? There is a great need, we must go.”