Degrees in Music Theory and Composition/Piano, University of Idaho and University of Colorado Graduate School of Music

Derrick Lynel Hamley had a close association with dance throughout his career, writing hundreds of works for ballet.

From 1983 until his death he performed, wrote for and accompanied ballet companies in Denver and Boulder including the Colorado Ballet, the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theater and the Denver and Boulder Ballet Arts Centers. Hamley toured internationally as an accompanist for more than 75 ballet seminars and workshops, and was a guest artist with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in 1989.

In the spring of 1999 he released Solemn Graces, Aubade and The Unveiling, a set of original compositions for piano.

Derrick Lynel Hamley died of AIDS in Boulder, Colorado at the age of 42 on February 9, 2000.

—Joseph Dalton

WORKS:
76 titles listed with BMI:

Agitato I
Agitato II
Alone in a World of Moan
And Thou A Ghost Amid the...
Angst I
Angst II
Angst III
Aubade
Bagatelle
Berceuse
Bourree
By a Route Obscure and Lonely
Caprice
Chaconne
Circles
Drear Path Alas Where Grows No...
Ecossaise
Elegy
Farewell
Fervente
Flibbertigibbet
Giocoso
Gioviale
Habanera I
Habanera II
Habanera III
Homage to Shostakovitch
Hop Scotch
Imp
Lament
Leaping
Like Starlight on a Pall
Lullaby
Memorial
Moonbeams
My Soul At Least A Solace Hath
Newly With Grass O’er Grown
O Craving Heart For The Last...
Over Spirits on the Wing Over
Passacaglia
Pavanne
Perpetual Motion I
Perpetual Motion II
Piacevole
Piangendo
Piangevole
Piano Sonata in Four Movements
Portamento
Preponderance
Promenade
Resolve
Restless Stirring
Revelation
Rhapsody
Rhapsody Espana I
Rhapsody Espana II
Romanza
Saltarello
Sarabande
Scampering
Scattering
Seduction
Shrouded Forms that Start and...
Skipping Amidst Moon Tints of...
Soaring
Solemn Graces
Soulsong
Stagnate Tide
Sturmish
Sunbeams
Tango I
Tango II
Tears
Trifle
Unveiling
With Drowsy Head and Folded Wings

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DISCOGRAPHY:
Solemn Graces, Aubade and The Unveiling (label unknown) (1999).

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PERFORMING RIGHTS AFFILIATION:
BMI

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