- Sheila Hamilton is a freelance chamber, orchestral and solo performer, appearing regularly in varied chamber settings in New York's Hudson Valley including the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, The Hamilton Bacon Duo, and the Bard Conservatory's Graduate Orchestral conducting program, formerly under Harold Farberman. Ms. Hamilton began her classical music training at age five in her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, and sprang into professional performing as a teenager. She was a double music scholarship recipient (flute and piano) and holds degrees from Eberhardt-Karls Universität in Germany, and The State University of New York. On flute, she has been described as "...a silk smooth syrinx of a classical flutist.". In her performance with guitarist Jim Bacon, of Ibert's Entr'acte, music critic and reviewer Kitty Montgomery wrote: "...inspired by Bacon's ebullient picking, Hamilton blew past perfect containment . . . to out-of-this-world . . . mastery". Ms. Hamilton studied with the legendary Julius Baker and Metropolitan Opera flutist Trudy Kane. On piano, she has accompanied numerous vocalists and choruses including the West Point Glee Club and The Marist College Chamber Choir. She appeared on piccolo with Nexus and So Percussion at Maverick Concert Hall in Woodstock, New York, in an anniversary performance of Steve Reich's seminal work "Drumming". Ms. Hamilton serves on the music faculty at Marist College, where she coaches chamber ensembles and is a lecturer of World Music and American Music History.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Hamilton Music Studio
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