UW-River Falls

Dr. Hilree Hamilton

Hilree Hamilton

Associate Professor of Music

Dr. Hilree Hamilton

Associate Professor of Music
Music Education, World Music,
Class Piano for the non-music major,
and Music Appreciation

Ph.D., University of Minnesota
M. A., University of Minnesota
Bachelor of Arts, Universaity of Northern Colorado

Office Phone: 715-425-3858
e-mail: hilree.hamilton@uwrf.edu

Dr. Hilree Hamilton teaches music education methods courses to music education and elementary education majors. Additionally, she teaches world music, class piano, music appreciation, and she supervises student teachers.

Hamilton received her B.A. from the University of Northern Colorado in Music Education, her M.A. from the University of Minnesota in Music Education with the equivalency in Music Therapy, and her Ph. D. from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Hamilton taught elementary and middle school classroom and choral music for 25 years in school districts in Kansas and Minnesota. A Board Certified music therapist, she worked with school-age children having a variety of disabilities for 10 years. Before teaching at UW-River Falls, Hamilton taught at the University of Minnesota. She has also worked as an adjunct professor at Hamline University, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, the State University of New York-Potsdam, and the University of St. Thomas.

Dr. Hamilton has extensive training in the Orff Schulwerk approach to music education. She has presented workshops and conference sessions throughout the United States on composition and improvisation in elementary classroom music and music therapy settings. She has articles published in recent journals of Teaching Music, The Wisconsin School Musician, The Orff Echo, General Music Today, and the Gopher Music Notes. She is a contributing author to the kindergarten book of the new textbook series, Spotlight on Music.

You can contact Hilree Hamilton by email at hilree.hamilton@uwrf.edu for more information (type UWRF in the subject line please.) Dr. Hamilton can also be contacted at UWRF by phone at 715-425-3858.