Welcome to the Hamilton Music Collective!

Who we are:

The Hamilton Music Collective is a network of highly accomplished musicians, respected educators and experienced industry professionals dedicated to inspiring and growing audiences for jazz and its related forms in Hamilton. With the much acclaimed Darcy Hepner Jazz Orchestra and a comprehensive array of national and international guest artists, the Hamilton Music Collective advances a unique vision for the continued development of high quality music events in our community producing a year-round schedule of performance, education and lectures for audiences of all ages.

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News and Events

Available soon on CD Baby

Available Now: The Darcy Hepner Jazz Orchestra CD, available on CD Baby here.

Hamilton Music Collective featured in 2010 / 2011 Tourism Hamilton Magazine: Creating A Scene... (read more)

HAMILTON'S MUSICAL MOVEMENT FOR 2011

Empowering Children Through Music
An initiative led by the Hamilton Music Collective (HMC) in partnership with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, An Instrument For Every Child (AIFEC) is a visionary music project aimed at providing Hamilton’s elementary school children with the opportunity to learn to play an instrument.  Read more. Click here to visit the website.

"We are very delighted to see the program 'An Instrument for Every Child' growing worldwide and can only support the initiative of the Hamilton Music Collective!"
- Manfred Grunenberg (Founder and Director of the acclaimed German initiative 'Jedem Kind ein Instrument' [An Instrument for Every Child]) http://www.jedemkind.de/englisch/

A Tale Of Two Cities

To view HMC's Powerpoint presentation featured at the event "A Tale Of Two Cities" with guest speaker Bill Strickland at The Hamilton Place Theatre on Nov. 30th 2009, click here (PDF)

Upcoming Events

HMC DHJO Ad

HMC in the Community

Jazz in the Hubs bringing free, interactive concerts to 1,000 school kids

More than 1,000 elementary school children in Hamilton’s lower city neighbourhoods experienced free, interactive and hands-on jazz concerts in May 2010 through Jazz in the Hubs, an innovative program presented by the Hamilton Music Collective, Mohawk College and supported by the Hamilton Community Foundation and Long & McQuade Musical Instruments. Read more.

Click here to view the Hamilton Spectator slideshow/photo essay on Jazz in the Hubs.

 

2009 AWARDS

TOURISM HAMILTON
2009 Event of the Year
(Portraits of Sound)

TOURISM HAMILTON
2009 Rookie of the Year
(Jazz @ The Corktown)

ALLEGRA PRINT, IMAGING HAMILTON
2009 FootPRINT Fund recipient

We proudly share the awards with our sponsors (listed below), the artists who participated in these projects and all the volunteers who worked so hard to make the events and our organization a success.

The exhibition 'Portraits of Sound' was featured at this year’s National Jazz Awards in Toronto.

Hamilton / New York: Portraits of Sound Exhibition
Photographs by Jimmy Katz
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Portraits of Sound - Art Gallery of Hamilton Exhibition Photo by Mike Lalich

Portraits of Sound - Art Gallery of Hamilton Exhibition Photo by Mike Lalich

For more photos of the exhibiton, please see the Gallery.

The Hamilton Music Collective gratefully acknowledges the support of the many individuals, organizations and sponsors who have made this program possible.