was born in Berlin in 1999 and discovered her passion for music at an early age.

Even before she started school, she took dance and piano lessons and became a member of the children’s and youth chorus of the Komische Oper Berlin from 2007-2018.

In addition to regular choir appearances, this gave her many solo concert experiences on various stages in Germany.

Since 2019 she has been studying at the "Hanns Eisler School of Music" Berlin with Prof. 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 2024.

As a guest artist, Hannah Schmidt-Ott sings annual concerts at the Saarländisches Staatstheater and was cast in the 2022 university production of M. Ravel's “L'enfant et les Sortilèges” with Rebekah Rota and in 2024 as Ilia in W.A. Mozart's “Idomeneo” under Markus Stenz. In 2025, she sings the Bubikopf in V. Ullman's “Kaiser von Atlantis“.

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. She can also often be heard as a soloist in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church with the Singakademie zu Berlin and Achim Zimmermann.

In spring 2024, Hannah Schmidt-Ott sang a colorful “Opera vs. Operettas” program with the Preußisches Kammerorchester under Jürgen Bruns with several concerts in northern Germany, followed by several concerts of the Weihnachtsoratoriums with the Munich Hofkapelle in winter. At the beginning of April 2024, she performed as part of the spring festival MOMENTUM in cooperation with the Barenboim-Said-Akademie.

Hannah Schmidt-Ott is a double finalist of the International Antonín Dvořák Competition 2023 in Karlovy Vary in the categories Opera and Lied, as well as in The Vienna International Classical Singing Competition 2025 and is a prizewinner of the International Singing Competition Rheinsberg 2025.

She was artistically influenced by the work with Britta Schwarz, Thomas Quasthoff, Chen Reiss, Claudia Visca, Krassimiro Stojanowa, Nadja Michael, Barbara Bonney, Wolfgang Rieger und Mara Kurotschka.