REGORY HAMILTON enjoys a wide variety of activities and interests as a composer, recitalist on the organ, piano and harpsichord, as a conductor, and continuo player on the harpsichord and theorbo. He is skilled in improvisation, and frequently includes improvisation in concerts. As a composer, over 100 of his works are in publication by Morning Star, Augsburg Fortress, CanticaNova, WLP, Concordia, Paraclete Press, Sheet Music Plus, and Lorenz, and are presented internationally in concert halls and churches, schools and airports. His Breath of the Spirit (an evening-length work for flute and organ, with narrators, written with Poet Kenneth Gaertner) was commissioned by Marilyn Mason and premiered by her with the flutist Donald Fishel in the Paris Festival Toussant at the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, and has been performed over twenty times in the U.S and Europe.
Gregory was commissioned to compose The Church’s One Foundation for the Archdiocesan choir and orchestra for the dedication of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston. Other recent works premiered include Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (Diane Winder and the Ypsilanti Symphony), Five Psalm Pictures, Rosary (Premiere—St. Johannes church, Amsterdam) and Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Schubert for string trio and flute, Hymn of Peace for Cello and Piano (cellist Cellist Mirel Iancvici; professor of cello at the Conseratoriaum, Utrecht) and several works for Houston virtuoso Organist Jackson Osborn. Gregory Hamilton attended Baldwin-Wallace University (B.MUS) The Royal College of Music, London, (M.Mus, A.R.C.M.) and The University of Michigan, (DMA) where he was a scholarship student of Dr. Marilyn Mason. Gregory has researched the works of Dom Paul Benoit, (1895-1976) the French composer-organist and has performed many of his works in the U.S. and abroad, including research at Benoit’s monastery, St. Mark and St. Maur in Clervaulx, Luxembourg. With Dr. Hamilton’s recent CD releases of Benoit’s music on RosaMystica recordings, he is enjoying the welcome upsurge in interest in the works of Benoit. Dr. Hamilton’s music has been featured in many radio broadcasts, including the NPR show Pipedreams, and was recently interviewed on “Notes from Above” (Ave Maria Radio). As a conductor, he has a wide repertoire of both choral and orchestral works, and has studied conducting with Dr. John Robinson and Dr. Leonard L. Riccinto.
Dr. Hamilton has taught Performance and Interpretation of Gregorian Chant for many years and was a student of Fr. Columba Kelly and Fr. Ralph March. As a continuo and chamber music performer, he performs with several chamber groups, including the Orchestra of New Spain, providing continuo work for opera, chamber concerts, playing organ, theorbo, lute and harpsichord, including a 2016 tour of Bolivia. In continuo and Early Music (Lute and Theorbo), he was a student of Nigel North and Jacob Lindberg at the RCM and Guildhall (London). Dr. Hamilton is currently faculty and Director of Sacred Music at Holy Trinity Seminary (University of Dallas). He can also be found at gregoryhamilton.org, his personal website.
