Celia Hatton

Based in New York City, violist Celia Hatton is establishing herself around the globe. This season she returns to South Korea for the New York in Chuncheon Festival as well as to the Dominican Republic to serve as Associate Principal in the Santo Domingo Festival Orchestra. Most recently she held the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Mellon Fellowship position, followed by a Japan tour with the ensemble.

Hatton won Honorable Mention in the National Symphony's Young Soloist Competition, and with her former string trio won the Mozart Chamber Music Competition culminating in a performance at Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall. She has appeared in concert at the Kennedy Center, Vatican, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Apollo Theatre, Tanglewood Music Center, and Jazz at Lincoln Center in collaboration with Paquito D'Rivera.

She has given the world premiere of string quartets by Colin Matthews, Derek Bermel, and Felix Jarrar, as well as "Twine", a piece written for solo viola and solo dancer for the Periapsis Music and Dance company. She has toured nationally with conductor-less chamber orchestras Sphinx Virtuosi and Shattered Glass. As a founding member of Shattered Glass, she has commissioned new works, held education workshop residencies, and recorded for Warner Bros.

Hatton received her Professional Studies and Master's Degree from Manhattan School of Music where she studied with Karen Dreyfus as the recipient of a William Randolph Hearst Scholarship. She earned her Bachelor's Degree with Kim Kashkashian at New England Conservatory receiving a Presidential Distinction Award Scholarship and Frances O. and Elizabeth Hunnewell Scholarship.