was born in Berlin in 1999 and discovered her passion for music at an early age. From 2007-2018 she was a member of the Children's and Youth Choir of the Komische Oper Berlin, where her training as a soloist began early on. In addition to regular choir appearances, this gave her many solo concert experiences on various stages in Germany. 

Since 2019, Hannah Schmidt-Ott has been studying at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule of Music Berlin with Britta Schwarz and is a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Berlin e.V., the Deutschlandstipendium and the Richard Wagner Foundation Minden.

Hannah Schmidt-Ott sang at the HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin under the direction of Justin Doyle the Faurés Requiem, was cast in the 2022 university production of M. Ravel's “L'enfant et les Sortilèges” with Rebekah Rota and this October in the university production as Ilia in Mozart's “Idomeneo” with Markus Stenz. 

Hannah Schmidt-Ott sings as a guest artist at the annual carnival concerts at the Saarländischen Staatstheater. 

In spring 2023, she performed in the partner project “Neue Szenen VI exposed” at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, then in summer 2023 as “Amital” in W. A. Mozart's Betulia Liberata with the Schillerchor Berlin.

Hannah Schmidt-Ott can also often be heard in the Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche with the Singakademie zu Berlin with Achim Zimmermann. This spring she sang a colorful “Opera vs. Operettas” program with the Preußisches Kammerorchester and Jürgen Bruns with several concerts in northern Germany.

Hannah Schmidt-Ott is a double finalist in the Internationalen Antonín-Dvořák-Wettbewerbs 2023 in Karlovy Vary in the categories Opera and Lied and was artistically characterized by the collaboration with Britta Schwarz, Thomas Quasthoff, Chen Reiss, Claudia Visca, Justin Doyle, Markus Stenz, Nadja Michael, Barbara Bonney, Wolfgang Rieger and Mara Kurotschka.