Hannah Ely is based in Belgium and specialises in the Renaissance and Baroque, performing as a soloist around Europe and the UK with early music ensembles including Il Gardellino, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ensemble Schirokko Hamburg, Yorkshire Bach Soloists, Alia Mens Ensemble and Camerata Øresund. Hannah also enjoys singing with a range of small ensembles including Collegium Vocale Gent, Huelgas Ensemble, InVocare, Siglo de Oro, Musica Secreta & Vox Luminis. She is also one half of Duo Accenti with gamba player Harry Buckoke which explores the performance practices of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for solo voice and viol. She is the artistic director of Fieri Consort specialising in Italian and English sixteenth- and seventeenth-century secular music, with whom she recorded an album of solos and duets by Barbara Strozzi as well as five other albums of consort music and two new commissions.

Hannah studied at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland, Manchester University and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Selected for the Handel House Talent young artist scheme in 2018, she remains a part of the family and performs regular recitals in that historic London venue.