Anne Hamilton

VMEA Teacher of the Year

Anne K. Hamilton is choral director and music theory and composition teacher at North Country Union High School. Prior to coming to the High School, she spent nine years as as an itinerant K-8 music teacher in Charleston, Morgan, Brighton, and Holland Schools, and six years at North Country Junior High School. She received a Bachelor of Music Education from Ohio Wesleyan University, a Masters Degree in Creative Arts in Learning from Lesley College, and Kodaly Certification from KMTI at Hartt School of Music.

Anne is a founding member of the Vermont MIDI Project, and has presented workshops and in-service training at Music and Technology Conferences in New York City, Seattle, San Diego, New Orleans, Nashville, Dallas, and many other cities throughout the United States. She has been a clinician at four national and four Eastern Division MENC conferences as well as state conferences in Massachusetts, Maryland, and Florida. She is co-director of the District II High School Music Festival.

Anne is the director of Northsong, a chamber choir based in Newport, and has been guest conductor at many district festivals in Vermont. She is VMEA District II President and creativity chair for the All State Music Festival, immediate past president of the Vermont Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, and vice president of the Vermont MIDI Project. She has contributed to several articles and books about music and technology, including three MENC publications, and teaches at the Summer Arts and Technology Institute at Castleton State College. She was recently a runner-up for the TI-ME (Technology in Music Education) Teacher of the Year, has been named a University of Vermont Outstanding Teacher, and has twice received special recognition from the Vermont Alliance for Arts Education

In the summer of 2006, Anne participated in the Institute on China and its Cultures, traveling and studying in China as part of the ASOP program at the University of Vermont. Her students performed a program of Chinese music at the annual VAAE Conference in Montpelier. She recently was selected as a Fulbright Teacher Scholar and spent three weeks in Japan learning about Japanese education, government, and culture.