Known and respected for his musical versatility and artistic passion,  David Hamilton has earned a reputation as an engaging conductor of popular music and a premiere arranger, orchestrator, pianist, and composer.  He is uniquely at home leading orchestras, rhythm sections and choirs. He collaborates with artists across multiple genres on the stage and in the recording studio and his arrangements are featured on recordings worldwide spanning gospel, pop, classical, jazz, country and sacred music genres.   His music can be heard on recordings by premiere artists such as classical pianist Lang Lang performing with Metallica, Ed Sheeran, The Weeknd, Lady Gaga, John Legend,  Celine Dion and “Lang Lang Plays Disney” with the Royal Philharmonic at Royal Albert Hall and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.  Hamilton has also written arrangements for Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Kristin Chenoweth,  Renee Fleming, Carrie Underwood, Heather Headley, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith,  Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs,  Sandi Patty, Natalie Grant and many others.    His music has been performed by the Boston Pops, the Cincinnati Pops,  the New York Pops, for the CMA Country Christmas television show and for Disney theme park shows worldwide  such as “World of Color”, “Fantasmic” and many others. Mr. Hamilton has conducted pops and holiday concerts with many of the leading American and Canadian orchestras including the Dallas, St. Louis, Denver, Atlanta, Vancouver, Edmonton, Virginia, and Detroit symphonies.  He has led his hometown, Nashville Symphony numerous times. He has also conducted the National Symphony,  the Cincinnati Pops, and has made multiple appearances at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center.  He also conducts recording orchestras at renowned scoring stages such as Oceanway and RCA in Nashville, Capitol and Warner Brothers in Los Angeles and Abbey Road and AIR Studios in London. Drawing from his diverse musical skills,  Hamilton brings to the podium unique abilities to bridge musical gaps, speaking the musical languages of musicians from different lanes. In his recent creative endeavors Hamilton alternates between conductor and musical director- pianist roles with Dolly Parton’s “Threads, My Songs in Symphony”, which he arranged and orchestrated for Schirmer Theatrical.  For many years he has collaborated with Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith  as conductor and touring musical director helping them each create their own legacies of rich holiday musical traditions.   Hamilton’s orchestral arrangements and music  production have helped bring Smith’s music to life in the concert hall and the studio and he has also collaborated with CeCe Winans as arranger and conductor presenting gospel music with the National Symphony.  Hamilton’s compositions are also heard on numerous solo piano recordings such as his jazz release, "Good Things” and his meditative offering, ”Sacred Space”. Mr. Hamilton earned an undergraduate degree in piano, composition, and conducting from the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music, and a graduate degree in commercial music and jazz from the University of Miami School of Music. This diverse and well-rounded training along with many years serving in church music leadership have equipped him to thrive both in the studio and on stages throughout North America, Europe, and in the vibrant creative scene of his hometown, Nashville.

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