About me

Emily Hamilton is a soprano and bassoonist with a passion for contemporary music. With a love for collaborating with living composers, she has worked alongside and premiered five works by composers Lily Koslow, Sean Smith, Gabriel Wallerstein, Julian Green, and Thomas Quirion.

Emily is a current student at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University where she is obtaining her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance under the tutelage of Anja Burmeister. Emily is currently working on her program for her recital in April 2023; her program features works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hugo Wolf, Luigi Nono, Eric Whitacre, Rebecca Clarke, and Louis Beydts. Additionally, she is working on the premiere for a composition by Thomas Quirion.

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Emily’s most recent collaborations were in June 2022, during her attendance at the International Music Festival of the Adriatic (IMFA) as a member of the Vocal Studio. At this festival, she premiered three works by composers-in-attendance: Luce for 8 voices by Sean Smith (b. 2001), We Don’t Unknow for soprano, violin, and piano by Julian Green (b. 1995), and E and O, Op. 51 for soprano, mezzo-soprano, and piano by Gabriel Wallerstein (b. 2002).

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Emily’s passion for music was born from a love of languages. She is fluent in Spanish and English; additionally, she has studied Italian, German, and French in a university setting as well as numerous other languages in her free-time. This appreciation for languages shows in her performances: Emily has performed in English, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Latin, Russian, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic, Swedish, and Icelandic. She looks forward to working on music in other languages in the future. 

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With an expected graduation from McGill in the summer of 2023, Emily will be moving back to the United States to obtain a Certificate in Voice Acting from Wichita State University. 

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During Secondary School, she had some notable achievements. A member of the Virtuoso and Spiritus Capriccio Youth Choirs, Emily was picked to be the soprano soloist in Movement 5 of Dan Forrest’s Jubilate Deo with the Capriccio Columbus Choirs and a chamber orchestra. In 2019, Emily participated at the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Ohio Chapter and achieved first place in category III/IV-2, High School Classical where she performed Dougherty, Tchaikovsky, and Debussy. Additionally, she participated in the 2019 Double Reed Honors Invitational held by the Ohio State University where she played the bassoon. Lastly, Emily represented New Albany High School as first soprano at the Ohio Capital Conference Honor Choir in 2017 at Ohio State University where they performed Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.

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An avid performer, Emily has participated in numerous ensembles in Ohio and Montreal. She is currently a member of the McGill Concert Choir. She also played bassoon in the McGill Wind Ensemble. Before moving to Montreal, she was a member of New Albany High School’s Concert Choir, Honors A Capella Choir, String Orchestra (violin), Honors Chamber Orchestra (viola), Concert Band (clarinet), Honors Wind Ensemble (bassoon), and Marching Band (clarinet). Outside of school, she participated in Capriccio Columbus’s Youth Choirs: Virtuoso and Spiritus. Lastly, she was a bassoonist in the New Albany Community Band. She looks forward to her future ensemble endeavors.