Barbara Hamilton (Baroque Viola) is Artistic Director and Violist/Violist d’Amore with the Colorado Chamber Players, a position she has held for 29 years. Barbara has participated in the Tafelmusik Summer Festival for 5 years, where she studied with Thomas Georgi, Brandon Chui, Patrick Jordan and Stefano Marcocchi; and the Oberlin Baroque Institute, studying with Marilyn McDonald and Robert Mealy. She performed the complete Brandenberg Concerti with Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado on baroque viola, and recently performed in 2022 with the BCOC with works by Bologne, Rameau and Lalande. She served as principal violist with Eastern Music Festival 1990-2005.

Barbara played as principal violist/soloist with Colorado Symphony, Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona & Orquesta de Valencia (Spain). She was in the New York Philharmonic for one season. Dr. Hamilton received a DMA from Yale School of Music in 1992, where she studied with Jesse Levine and taught in 1998. She was a prize winner in the Fischoff, Aspen Festival and Woolsey Hall Competitions, as well as the Young Artists of YM-YWHA (New Jersey). In the 1990’s, she toured Europe with the Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona, the NY Virtuosi and the American Sinfonietta, concerts in the Grosse Saal/Vienna, the Concertgebauw, Leipzig Gewandhaus. She recently performed the Bartok Viola Concerto with the Denver Young Artists Orchestra, at Boettcher Hall and at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge.