Episode 6 - Patrick Hamilton
How do the great producers make great albums possible? What skills do they need? How do they communicate or plan or simply capture great music?
Today's guest is a veteran of the music industry. As a producer, musician, engineer, composer - he is quite simply prolific in every sense of the word.
Patrick Hamilton, is the son of two musicians, was classically trained before becoming a session musician for many of Belgians leading artists. This lead to work as a producer and writer with multiple #1 singles and gold & platinum albums.
Our chat recorded in 2021 explores his early days in Belgium, making incredibly successful albums with Katherine Jenkins, his mindset and process as a producer and musician, and his new career as a solo artist with millions of streams to his name thus far. We cover so and so much more about the music business in general and his career to date.
Produced by Old Fashioned Studios
Hosted by Bradley McCaw
Sound design by Matt Erskine & Cross Point Solutions
Story Producer & additional engineering by Gilang Candraditya
Theme composed by James Ryan
PATRICK HAMILTON:
Patrick is a flag bearer for the next generation of producer, composer & arranger. A leading figure in classical crossover music. Although artistically diverse and creatively travelling in various lanes, Patrick’s DNA is rooted in the classical space. Classically trained at the Royal Conservatorium Ghent in Belgium, he started his career as a session player with many leading Belgian artists, which led to more and more work as a producer-engineer. As word of mouth spread, Hamilton became the go-to producer for a range of international artists and worked with Katherine Jenkins, Alfie Boe, Fernando Varela, Mark Masri, Richard Clayderman, Trystan Llyr Griffiths, David Garrett, Bryn Terfel, Branden & James, Hayley Westenra, Alberto Urso, Luke Evans, Shaun Escoffrey,…to name a few. His work with the best-selling classical female artist, Katherine Jenkins, resulted in a number of #1 albums, including her 12th studio album, Cinema Paradiso, which was released July 2020 on Decca Records and reached #1 in the Classical charts and #3 in the pop album charts in the UK), where he took the helm for production duties alongside arranging and writing.
Patrick is also currently developing a number of film and TV score compositions alongside his ongoing production duties. 'Journey to the unknown' and 'Whispering wings' (1631 Recordings/Decca Publishing) are the first 2 albums of his solo piano works. The EP 'Morning light' was released June 4th 2021.