Formed it 2020, Les Plongeons Casse´ is dedicated to commissioning and performing new works for saxophone and harp. Prior to the pandemic, the duo premiered N. Jennings White’s “The Death of Anna Karenina” at the Biennial North American Saxophone Alliance Conference in Tempe, Arizona.

Hannah Palmquist is a native of Tucson, AZ. She began her harp studies at the age of 6 with Patricia Harris of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. Hannah earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music History, Theory, and Criticism from the University of Arizona in 2012. While a student there, she was a member of touring harp ensemble HarpFusion, with whom she toured Brazil and China. Hannah traveled to London in 2009 to study chamber works with faculty of the Royal College of Music at the British Isles Music Festival. Hannah earned her Master of Music in Harp Performance at the University of Minnesota in 2017 under the tutelage of Kathy Kienzle and is currently a doctoral candidate in Harp at UMN. She has been a featured soloist with UMN Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Pops Orchestra, and Civic Orchestra of Tucson. Her passions include chamber music, teaching, and premiering new works.