Hannah Petrick

Music Teacher

Hannah Petrick joined the World Academy community in 2026. She holds a Bachelors of Science degree from Eastern Nazarene College, with a K-12 teaching credential. She also graduated from Liberty University with a Master of Arts degree in Ethnomusicology. She brings seven years of teaching experience, conducting and performance expertise, and enthusiasm!

Hannah is a New Hampshire born native. She currently resides in Nashua with her husband, two sons, and three cats. She enjoys spending time with her family, cooking and baking new recipes, and exploring her newfound love of sourdough! Hannah loves to immerse herself in a good book, as well as travel to new places and immerse herself in the culture. This is largely what sparked her interest in pursuing her Masters in ethnic music, which she loves to share with students in the classroom.

Hannah strongly believes in supporting the growth and development of the whole child. This includes building a strong relationship between school and home.

“Fortunately, music is in the unique position in that it encompasses so much of what we learn inside and outside of the classroom. Music is a science, math, history, foreign language, and physical activity. It is all of these things, but additionally, music is emotion. It takes all these different methodical and difficult techniques and utilizes them to create something that is an unexplainable manifestation which is uniquely human.

Music speaks to all people in all different ways. It creates a bridge spanning across cultures and time. It also gives us the ability to progress past differences. Music requires unison and harmony but can also give us an experience that is uniquely ours. Music makes us human. In this way, music is similar to people with many opportunities for individuality and style.

Being in the unique position to teach such a subject, I intend to explore a wide range of methods in my classroom to reach all students from all different levels and abilities. People learn in several fashions: kinesthetically, aurally, visually, verbally, and any other number of ways. Music incorporates all these learning styles and I intend to utilize each one of them so that every child has an equal opportunity to learn.”