Bio and Affiliations
Zachary Hamilton is a recording artist, freelance violist and violinist, and teacher in Southern California. He currently studies viola with Jonathan Moerschel in the Doctor of Musical Arts program at UC Santa Barbara.

Zachary is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, where he specialized in new music and studied viola under Ásdís Valdimarsdottir and specialized in new music. He has played in professional ensembles throughout the West Coast, the Netherlands, and Austria. Zachary also plays jazz, fiddle, and Baroque viola, and his Master’s thesis focused on the implementation of hip hop on string instruments.

Zachary plays a 17-inch viola made by the Dutchman Peter Pots in 1988, and a Parisian violin from the early 19th century from an unknown maker.

For more information or to request a CV, please inquire at [email protected].

This picture, as well as most photography on the site, was taken by my sister Kaylyn Hamilton in Malibu, California in 2020. Go Kaylyn!