Kate Hamilton, violist, enjoys an international career as Associate Professor of Viola at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and as the Co-Director of the International Chamber Music Festival in Joao Pessoa, Brazil. Recent engagements include guest artist on the Unbound Chamber Music Series (Mammoth, CA), chamber music performances with Frank Huang (New York Philharmonic concertmaster), and guest artist on the Music Maestri Series, Milano Conservatorio (Italy). A special honor in June 2022, was to perform viola quintets in Leipzig with members of the Berlin Philharmonic on the Kunitz & Justiz Courthouse Chamber Series. Since 2019, Kate has received repeated invitations to substitute in the viola section of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany) under Sir Simon Rattle, amongst others. As a viola soloist, she has appeared at the Qintai Concert Hall with the Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra (China), the Kansas City Civic Orchestra, Central Oregon Symphony, and the Chamber Orchestra of San Jose (Costa Rica). Her playing has been described by Minnesota Public Radio as “a sound like liquid gold.”

A sought-after educator, she teaches a large class of violists at the University of Nevada and has given masterclasses at numerous music schools worldwide including the Sydney Conservatory, Wuhan Conservatory, Milan Conservatory, New Zealand School of Music, University of Georgia, and the Steinhardt School of Music at New York University. Her students have continued studies at the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School of Music, and hold symphony, chamber, and academic positions around the world.

Kate has won positions in the San Diego (CA) and Guiyang Symphony Orchestra (China) as well as invited guest principal of the Bodø Chamber Orchestra in Norway.

Previous faculty positions include Artist-in-Residence at the University of Missouri- Columbia and violist of the Esterhazy String Quartet, Associate Professor of Viola at Illinois State and visiting viola faculty at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand.

With her violin duo partner, Ambroise Aubrun, they are known as “Duo Novae” and they have enjoyed performances at the Sibelius Festival (Italy), the Nice Conservatoire (France) , and throughout the USA. In 2023, they will be on tour in New Zealand and Australia, as well as recording duos of York Bowen for the Centaur label.