Toby Hanson Teachers

Toby Hanson was born in 1975 in rural Graham, Washington where he grew up with an appreciation of traditional music. He moved to Seattle in 1994 to attend Cornish College of the Arts from which he graduated Magna cum laude in 1998 with a Bachelor of Music degree. Besides his activities with the Smilin’ Scandinavians he also plays with country gospel band Mended Heart and surreal cabaret band Opera Jupiter. Toby also freelances with a variety of other groups. Active in the theater, he has performed with Terry Palasz in her one-woman show Polish Diva from Milwaukee, played for productions of Cabaret and Fiddler On The Roof and acted in Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors and Kirkland Performance Center’s The Holiday Big Broadcast.