Hello, my name is Hannah Wilkinson and I have my fingers in a number of pies, but the tastiest are those that allow me to tell stories through music and various media.

I hold a BMus (Advanced) in Creative Arts (Composition) from 2025, a Cert III in Screen and Media from 2018, and my Certificate of Performance (Classical Piano) from 2024. 

I studied Music at the University of Adelaide from 2021-2025 under professors: Dr. Charles Bodman Rae, Dr. Dylan Crismani, and Dr. Anne Cawrse; and Arts (Film Studies) under: Dr. Benjamin McCann, and Dr. Guillaume Vétu. 

My passion is telling stories. Having taken an interest in film-making as a child, my interests naturally progressed to music - understanding the importance of the score for its role in shaping the tone and emotion in a film. I started learning piano at 11-years-old, and it consumed my interest all through high-school where I picked up Clarinet and began teaching myself guitar. 

I played with a number of ensembles, wrote scores for my films, and progressed through the piano grades - often instead of doing my homework. In 2020, I began taking composition more seriously, alongside beginning my work as a piano teacher. I wrote six piano exercises, themed after animals which were designed to target the more advanced piano techniques I was beginning to learn, while being more engaging / accessible. These won second place in the 2020 ASME Young Composer Awards and helped me secure my place at University.  

While at university, I continued to play Clarinet with the Elder Conservatorium Wind Orchestra (ECWO), and kept up my learning in piano, eventually achieving my Certificate of Performance. I was also fortunate to secure a number of composition opportunities with Adelaide University's resident student ensembles, as well as external opportunities to work with some of Adelaide's finest musicians. 

With my studies, I found my style, and what mattered to me as an artist. I discovered that I find it extremely challenging to write music from a purely academic standpoint - which occasionally clashed with my tutor's wishes. Instead I like to blend my passion for music theory with a story or visual idea which informs the entire structure and aesthetic of my music. From my perspective, music is to be connected with, so I attempt to communicate any complex ideas from an accessible lens, and take the listener on a journey. 

With many lessons learned from uni, I felt ready to begin applying my skills back to where I began, in film. I have written scores for a number of student and independent short films, including The Crease of this Couch (2023) - Jada Zilm,  which won awards at the Fleurieu Film Festival, and the Adelaide Independent Film Festival; and Great Deliverence (2025) which screened at the Geelong Pride Film Festival. 

Now my interest is turned towards interactive media, particularly video games and how to shape stories by bringing together elements which are visual, aural, and kinaesthetic in nature. The idea that these elements can react and change based on the individual's sensibilities is fascinating to me; hence I started creating Spoon Theory which is an intersection of skills and interests I have collected over my life, and a passion project.