Hamilton Berry

Sing Sing Assistant Program Director, Cello

Cellist Hamilton Berry's eclectic taste has led him to pursue a variety of performing, arranging, and composing projects in the New York area and beyond. A member of PUBLIQuartet, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Toomai String Quintet, Founders, and The Con Brio Ensemble, Hamilton has also performed with Ensemble Connect, Decoda, NOVUS NY, and A Far Cry, and has collaborated with artists including Vampire Weekend, Rostam, Bjork, Debbie Harry, FUN., Léa Freire, Hiromi, Magos Herrera, Diane Monroe, and Becca Stevens. He is Assistant Program Director of the Musicambia program at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where he teaches string students.

A Nashville native, Hamilton has played at the Montreal Jazz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Olympic, and Yellow Barn music festivals. In 2009 he received his Master of Music from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Timothy Eddy; his previous teachers include Felix Wang, Grace Bahng, and Anne Williams. During his fellowship with Ensemble Connect - a program of Carnegie Hall, Juilliard, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education - Hamilton was a visiting teaching artist at IS61 on Staten Island.