Lifting Life Music Publishing features exclusively the compositions and arrangements by Dean H. Hamill.

I cannot remember a time in my life when I haven't enjoyed and been influenced by music.  Anthems and hymns of praise to our Creator are especially dear to me.  Beautiful compositions with sacred texts help me center my attention on my Savior, Jesus Christ.

The Apostle Paul wrote, "Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;" Ephesians 5:19-20. 

I hope that the compositions included here will make "melody in your heart to the Lord."  Perhaps they will bring you closer to the Master.  What greater purpose can music have than to edify, uplift and cause one to appreciate the love our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ have for them?

My formal music studies started at the age of nine with piano.  About the time the Beatles became famous, I started learning guitar and was hooked.  Eventually, I majored in classical guitar performance.  I attended three years of Christopher Parkening master classes and graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from University of Southern California (USC).  While there I also studied composition and orchestration.

Shortly after graduating, I was hired to teach guitar classes at several community colleges and USC.  I continued my classical guitar studies taking private lessons from Pepe Romero.  My mentor at USC, E. C. “Duke” Miller, suggested that I write new course materials for the classes.  The result was Adult Group Guitar One and Adult Group Guitar Two.  Eventually, in the mid-1980s, I adapted these into one of the first video guitar instructional courses commercially available to the public, Guitar Now! Volumes One and Two, which enjoyed combined sales of over 100,000 copies.

I earned my master's degree in music from California State University at Long Beach.  There, I studied choral arranging with nationally renowned Professor Frank Pooler.  This experience brought to me a whole new excitement and I started devoting more energy to composition and arranging.  During this period, I composed and arranged music for the then nationally recognized Grand Land Singers.

I love setting scripture-based texts to music that might help lift and encourage people to grow in faith and testimony of our Savior.  My particular choice of Christianity, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, gives me the sure foundation I need for faith-based composing.