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Aramis String Quartet brings the quality and professionalism of concert hall performances straight to you, making your wedding or event a very special one. Our players are all career musicians, and hold advanced degrees from prestigious music schools and conservatories across the country, including The Juilliard School, The Curtis Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Northwestern University, The New England Conservatory, and The Colburn School. We regularly perform at venues throughout New York City (Manhattan and surrounding boroughs).
We offer: - Competitive pricing for a concert quality perfomance
- An extensive selection of classical and contemporary pieces
- A coordinator to make the music selection process easy
- Highly experienced players who are professional in their appearance and conduct
Violinist and Coordinator Rebecca C Hamilton holds a Master of Music in Violin Performance from The Juilliard School, where she was a pupil of Naoko Tanaka. At Juilliard, Miss Hamilton served as an active member of the Chamber orchestra, working closely with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. As an Irene Diamond Fellow, she received a full scholarship to pursue her degree. She was also a full scholarship recipient at Northwestern University, where she received her Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Recently, Miss Hamilton was invited back to perform the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra as the winner of concerto competition.
Miss Hamilton began studying violin with Roland and Almita Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago, where she was an active member of the American Chamber Strings under the direction of Roland Vamos. She then continued her studies with Almita Vamos at Northwestern University, where she was the recipient of the Wade Fetzer Fellowship. During her high school years, she was mentored by David Taylor and Yuan-Qing Yu, both assistant concertmasters of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
As an active chamber musician, Miss Hamilton has worked closely with the Pacifica Quartet and the Chicago String Quartet and has been coached by Jonathan Feldman of The Juilliard School and Peter Salaff o the Cleveland Institute of Music. Miss Hamilton has recently returned from a tour in South America with the Del Gesu Strings. As an orchestral performer, she has attended many renowned music festivals such as the Pacific Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Aspen Music Festival Music and School, Weathersfield Music Festival, and Meadowmount School of Music. At the Pacific Music Festival, Miss Hamilton premired a chamber work of Toru Takemitsu. An international performer, Miss Hamilton has performed in Austria, Germany, Korea, Japan, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Chile, and throughout the United States.
Born in California, cellist Tobin Low has been working his way east ever since. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, the University of Michigan, and The Juilliard School, he is now pursuing a Professional Studies degree at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. While pursuing his Bachelor's Degree, he served as principle cellist of the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, and currently serves as principle of the Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia. As a chamber musician, he has performed a wide range of repertoire with the New Juilliard Ensemble, the Noname ensemble as part of Youtube Play at the Guggenheim Museum, and appeared as part of the 2010 ChamberFest at The Juilliard School. He has concertized at summer festivals in Taos, New Mexico, as well as the Moritzburg Festival Academy in Germany, where his octet won the Moritzburg Prize for their performance of the Shostakovich Octet. Tobin has studied with Richard Aaron, Timothy Eddy, David Soyer, and currently studies with Alan Stepansky.
