Dr. Gregory Hamilton

Cello, Double Bass

For the past 15 years, Gregory Hamilton was Associate Professor of Cello and Double Bass at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Before this, he was the Executant Senior Lecturer of Cello at the University of Otago in New Zealand.

Called “a master of the instrument” by the Otago Daily Times, Gregory’s playing was heard throughout New Zealand on Concert-FM Radio broadcasts. He also served as president of the String Teachers Association of New Zealand Aotearoa and was a national adjudicator for the 2007 Chamber Music New Zealand competition. Hamilton also taught at Illinois State University for 10 years where he was a founding member of the Ricard Piano Trio.

Hamilton is a former member of the Columbus Symphony in Ohio and has toured and recorded in the cello section of the Houston Symphony. Gregory has performed internationally at the conservatories of Milan, Seville, and Malakoff (France), appeared on live broadcasts on German Public Radio of Cologne, participated in the William Pleeth masterclasses at the Aldeburgh Festival, and has taught and performed with the Lugano String Orchestra, a program serving poor and disadvantaged children in Buenos Aires.

In 2005, Gregory received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Kansas. Prior to this he was a student of Bernard Greenhouse at Rutgers University, Raya Garbousova at Northern Illinois University, and Richard Kapuscinski at the Oberlin Conservatory. In 2011 his solo CD, “The Hollywood Cello,” featuring works by film composers of the Golden Era, was released by Soundset Recordings.

Presently, Greg lives in Carefree, AZ with his wife, violist Kate Hamilton, where he is Administrative Director of the Desert Hills Community School of Music.

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