Hilary Campbell

Hilary Campbell composer conductor soprano

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Hilary is a freelance musician based in London. She studies Choral Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music.

Having read music at the University of York, Hilary subsequently continued postgraduate studies there, gaining a

distinction for her MA in Vocal Studies in 2005. Following this, she worked as a singing teacher, workshop leader

and choral director. In 2007 she moved to London to take up a place at Trinity College of Music, where she

undertook an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma, supported by scholarships from the South Square Trust,

Greenwich Blue Coat Foundation and the Seary Charitable Trust. Hilary studies singing with Julie

Kennard, having previously studied with Alison Wells and Lynne Dawson. She also studies composition with

Ruth Byrchmore, after completing studies with Stephen Montague.

For her conducting course, Hilary is generously supported by the Derek Butler Trust, Hobson Charity, Kathleen

Trust, Royal College of Organists, Hilda Martindale Trust, John Wates Charitable Trust and the Seary Charitable

Trust. She is also the recipient of the Bundy Award 2011, the Stanley Vann Scholarship 2010 and the Peter Le

Huray Award 2010.

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In 2008 Hilary became Composer in Residence for the Ebor Singers, having won their inaugural competition for composers. She was also the winner of the Shipley Arts Festival Composer Award 2009, the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Choral Composition Prize 2009, the Philip Bates Prize for Young Composers in 2004, and in 2006 was a finalist in the National Youth Choir Composition Competition. Most recently, she was awarded second place in theMusica Sacra International Competition for Composers 2010,which resulted in performances and broadcasts of her work in Poland and Lithuania by professional ensembles; in November, Stephen Layton conducted the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge in its UK premiere. In June, the BBC Symphony Chorus workshopped one of her choral pieces. Three of her works are published by Shorter House in the anthologiesSleep, Holy Babe, The Book of New ResponsesandThe Book of New Canticles II.She was recently commissioned by Choir and Organ Magazine to compose a choral work for their New Music Series; the work, plorans ploravit, was premiered by the choir of Wells Cathedral in March, and is available to download from the Rhinegold website. One of her works featured in the Februrary 2011 edition of Organists' Review Magazine, and her carol sleep, my dreaming one is included in the forthcoming Naxos disc Sleep, Holy Babe due to be released in November 2011.

Hilary's choral music has been performed in Spain, Poland, Lithuania, France and Holland, as well as around the UK, and by professional and amateur ensembles alike, including: BBC Symphony Chorus (workshop); Polish National Chamber Choir; Vilnius Municipal Choir; The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge; Ebor Singers; Leeds Cathedral Choir; Wells Cathedral Choir; Culemborg Chapel Choir; National Youth Choir (workshop); Choral Scholars of St Martin in the Fields; Blossom Street Singers; King William Singers; Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir; Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir. Recent performances include those at venues including St Johns, Smith Square, Royal Palace in Madrid, St Martin in the Fields, York Minster, Leeds Cathedral, Old Royal Naval College, Trinity College Cambridge, Wells Cathedral and Maida Vale.

As well as her original compositions, Hilary also works as an arranger; a number of her arrangements feature on a CD of Christmas carols recently released by Union Square Music, and her arrangement of the National Anthem was performed on ITV1 and at the Wimbledon New Theatre for the Prince of Wales 60th birthday. Her arrangements of hymn tunes are broadcast on Radio 4; she also wrote an arrangement of the 'Twelve Days of Christmas' for HBO, and was recently commissioned by the London Gay Mens Chorus. Additionally, she arranges pop and jazz hits for a cappella vocal ensembleBlossom Street.

Should you wish to commission Hilary for either a new work or an arrangement, please get in touch using thecontact form.

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Hilary has conducted in the UK, Spain, France and Germany, as well as on BBC2, Channel 4, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4. She has acted as the MD on adverts for sky+, HBO and Channel 5, and is the Musical Director of Harpenden Music Makers, the L'Oreal Choir, National Magazines' Choir and the Music Makers of London, as well as professional vocal ensemble Blossom Street. She has been fortunate to conduct the BBC Singers and Cardinall's Musick in masterclasses.

At university, Hilary studied conducting with John Stringer as part of her degree, which led to directing a range of performances from standard repertoire to Barber's Adagio for Kazoo! Since moving to London she has been involved with a variety of ensembles; in 2007 she established the King William Singers and Orchestra, comprising postgraduates and graduates; a recent performance was at St John's, Smith Square when she conducted the world premiere of a new work by Jamie Brown. Previously, she held the post of Musical Director with Streatham Voices.

Last September, Hilary took up a place at the Royal Academy of Music on the Choral Conducting course. She gives regular choral workshops and conducts on Radio 4's Daily Service quarterly.

Extract from Mozart's Requiem , directed by Hilary

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Hilary performs frequently both as a soloist and with a number of professional ensembles, and undertook the mentor scheme with The Sixteen in 2009. She has appeared on TV and radio numerous times. A high soprano, she was a choral scholar at St Martin in the Fields 2009-10, sings at a number of London churches and held a choral scholarship at St Sepulchre Without Newgate 2008-09. She has studied with Lynne Dawson, Nicholas Powell and Alison Wells, and commenced with Julie Kennard at the Royal Academy of Music in September.

Hilary began studying singing at the Birmingham Conservatoire Junior School during her sixth form years, and in 2001 gained a distinction for Grade 8 singing. A year later, during her degree, she passed the Dip. ABRSM in Singing Performance, and in 2005 gained a Distinction for an MA in Vocal Studies. In 2010, she graduated from Trinity College of Music with an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in performance.

Recent solo performances include Finzi's Dies Natalis , Bach's Magnificat , Weichet Nur and Wachet Auf , Mascagni's Easter Hymn Chorus , Vivaldi's Gloria , Mozart's Coronation Mass , Handel's Dixit Dominus, Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle , and Haydn's Nelson Mass under the direction of Sir David Willcocks.

A keen ensemble musician, Hilary has been singing in vocal groups for over ten years, including: Royal Academy of Music Chamber Choir; Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir; New London Chamber Choir; Yorkshire Bach Choir; York Vocal Index; Philharmonia Chorus; Chimera Ensemble; Sonitus Chamber Choir. Additionally, Hilary is the founder, director and 1st soprano of professional vocal ensemble Blossom Street.

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preces and responses - extract
sleep, my dreaming one extract
o lux beata trinitas
the hand that made us is divin
coventry carol

Recent Works

2011 I make all things new for SATB choir (div.)

2011 magnificat and nunc dimittis for double choir

Commissioned by Shorter House for publication in an anthology of canticles

2010 draw nigh to God for SATB choir (div.)

2010 plorans ploravit for SATB choir (div.)

Commissioned by Choir and Organ Magazine for their New Music Series

Premiered by Wells Cathedral, March 2011

2010 setting suns for two sopranos and piano

For Helen Bailey and Anna Whyte

Premiered at the Royal Academy of Music, November 2010

2010 sleep, my dreaming one for SATB choir (div.)

Commissioned by Shorter House

Published in Sleep, Holy Babe ISMN 979-0-9002201-0-3

Premiered by Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir, dir Stephen Jackson, November 2010

Recorded onto CD by The Blossom Street Singers, March 2011

2010 preces and responses for SATB choir (div.)

Commissioned by Shorter House

Published in The Book of New Responses ISMN 979-0-9002201-1-0

Premiered by St Martin in the Fields Choral Scholars, June 2010

2010 the angel gabriel for SATB choir (div.)

2010 all men are mortal for SSAATTBB choir

Commissioned by the Viking Festival 2010, York

Premiered in York Minster, February 2010

2009 o lux beata trinitas for SATB choir (div.)

Won 2nd prize in the Musica Sacra International Composer Competition 2010

Premiered by the Vilnius Municipal Choir in Poland, May 2010

Broadcast on Polskie Radio, May 2010

Subsequently performed by the Polish Chamber Choir in Poland, Jun 2010

UK premiere by Trinity College, Cambridge, dir Stephen Layton, November 2010

Featured in Organists Review Magazine February 2011

To be performed by the BBC Singers November 2011

2009 o dawn of the east for SSAA choir

2009 prayer of imperfect desire for 16 solo voices

Premiered at St Johns, Smith Square in October 2009

2009 where shall be no more sea for double choir

To be premiered by St Martin in the Fields Choral Scholars 2011

2009 the hand that made us is divine for SATB choir (div.)

Commissioned by the Ebor Singers, York

Premiered in York Minster in February 2009

2008 christmas hath a beauty for SSAATTBB choir

Won the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Choral Composition Prize 2009

Premiered by the King William Singers in All Saints Church, Blackheath, December 2008

2008 hath the inn no room? for SSATB choir

Commissioned by the Culemborg Chapel Choir, Holland

Premiered in Holland, December 2008

2008 the isle is full of noises for double choir

Won the Ebor Singers inaugural composition competition

Premiered in York, July 2008

Workshopped by the BBC Symphony Chorus, Maida Vale May 2010

2008 the passing year for mezzo-soprano and piano

Premiered by Helen Bailey in St Martin Within Ludgate in June 2009

Tenor premiere by Ben Francis in the Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich in June 2009

2008 pour out your light for string quartet

Won the Shipley Arts Festival Composer Award 2009

Premiered by the Bernardi String Ensemble in Shipley in May 2009

2007 not with my soul, love! for SSAATTBB choir

Premiered by Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir (dir. Stephen Jackson) in May 2008

2006 down by the salley gardens for tenor and piano

Premiered by Chris OGorman in York in June 2006

2006 when you are old for double choir

Finalist in the National Youth Choir Competition for Young Composers 2006

Premiered by the Blossom Street Singers, June 2006

Arrangements

2011 All You Need is Love for SATB, clarinet, cello and trumpet

Commissioned for a wedding

2011 What a Wonderful World for SATB

Commissioned for a wedding

2011 You're All I Need to Get By for two sopranos, baritone and piano

Commissioned for a wedding in Sweden

2011 Eddie Stobart Promo for Channel 5 Extended Vocal Techniques (16 voice)

Commissioned by Channel 5

Premiered on Channel 5, May 2011

2011 Auld Lang Syne for TTBB (div.)

Commissioned by the London Gay Mens Chorus

2010 The Twelve Days of Christmas for SAATBB

Commissioned for an advert for HBO

Premiered December 2010

2010 Fum, Fum, Fum for SATB choir (div.)

Arranged for a sky+ advertisement

Premiered by the Blossom Street Singers, December 2010

2010 Our Love is Here to Stay for SSATBB

Premiered in Alnwick, June 2010

2010 When My Love To Christ Grows Weak for choir and organ

Arrangement of Gibbons' hymn tune premiered during the Sunday Half Hour on Radio 2 on 16 May 2010, by the Blossom Street Singers

2010 Coventry Carol for choir and string trio

Commissioned by Union Square Music for a CD of Christmas carols. Recorded by the Blossom Street Singers, January 2010

2010 Deck The Hall for choir, string trio and flute

Commissioned by Union Square Music for a CD of Christmas carols. Recorded by the Blossom Street Singers, January 2010

2010 Away in a Manger for choir

Commissioned by Union Square Music for a CD of Christmas carols. Recorded by the Blossom Street Singers, January 2010

2010 Silent Night for choir

Commissioned by Union Square Music for a CD of Christmas carols. Recorded by the Blossom Street Singers, January 2010

2009 O Mio Babbino for choir

Premiered by the Blossom Street Singers in Southend, May 2009

2008 The National Anthem for SSAATTBB choir

Premiered on ITV1 by the Blossom Street Singers (for Prince Charles' 60th Birthday), November 2008

2008 When You Say Nothing At All for SSAATTBB choir

Premiered by the Blossom Street Singers at Trinity College of Music in August 2008

2008 In the Bleak Midwinter for SSAATTBB choir

Premiered by the King William Singers in All Saints' Church, Blackheath, December 2008

2007 A Whiter Shade of Pale for SSATB choir and mezzo soloist

Premiered by the Blossom Street Singers in York, 2007

2006 When I'm Sixty Four for SSAATTBB choir

Premiered by the Blossom Street Singers in Bridgnorth, 2006

2005 My Grandfather's Clock for SSAATTBB choir

Premiered by the Blossom Street Singers in York, 2005

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February

06.02.12 Oxford and Cambridge Club, London

Private engagement with Blossom Street

07.02.12 Nationwide

Performances with Blossom Street for Clinton’s Cards

08.02.12 Nationwide

Performances with Blossom Street for Clinton’s Cards

08.02.12 Christie’s, South Kensington

Hilary conducts L’Oreal’s choir, Choreal, in a competition

09.02.12 Nationwide

Performances with Blossom Street for Clinton’s Cards

14.02.12 Royal Academy of Music, London

Hilary takes part in a conducting masterclass with David Hill, conductor of the BBC Singers

March

03.03.12 Eastcote

Private engagement with Blossom Street

10.03.12 Chudleigh, Devon

Hilary conducts the Music Makers of London in a programme of French repertoire

22.03.12 St John’s, Smith Square, London

Hilary performs with Blossom Street during a Music in Offices event

April

03 – 05.04.12 BBC Radio 4, Daily Service, 9.45am

Hilary conducts Blossom Street in several broadcasts

27.04.12 Cambridge, MA, US

The Seraphim Singers perform Hilary’s choral work, Plorans Ploravit

May

06.05.12 Royal Festival Hall, London

The London Gay Men’s Chorus premiere Hilary’s arrangement of Over the Rainbow

10.05.12 BBC Radio 4, Daily Service, 9.45am

Hilary conducts the BBC Daily Service Singers in a morning broadcast

June

16.06.12 St James, Piccadilly, 7.30pm

Hilary conducts the Music Makers of London

July

01.07.12 Hebden Bridge Arts Festival

The Hepton Singers perform Hilary’s choral work, when you are old

20 – 26.07.12 Sweden

Hilary conducts Blossom Street in various concerts

August

13 – 18.08.12 Edinburgh

Hilary conducts Blossom Street at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

27.08 – 03.09.12 Neresheim, Germany

Hilary performs with and conducts the Royal Academy of Music Chamber Choir, who also sing one of her compositions

September

22.09.12 Rochdale

Hilary conducts Blossom Street in a concert for Rochdale Music Society

25.09.12 Royal Academy of Music, London

Hilary takes place in a masterclass with the BBC Singers

October

13.10.12 St Mark’s, Ramsgate

Hilary conducts the Music Makers of London in an evening concert

November

15.11.12 St Sepulchre-Without-Newgate, London, 7.30pm

To celebrate the anniversary of Warlock, Hilary conducts Blossom Street in a concert focussing on his works

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Blossom Street's new release on the Naxos label available for just £5 (plus p&p) from www.blossomstreetsingers.com

or www.shorterhouse.com

The disc contains a wide variety of Christmas lullabies.

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Blossom Street

(a cappella vocal ensemble available for a range of concerts and events)

Shorter House

(publishing house specialising in choral anthologies)

Harpenden Music Makers

(amateur chamber choir of 35 - 40, based in Harpenden)

The Ebor Singers

(chamber choir based in York)

The Stanley Vann Scholarship

(a trust set up to enhance Anglican choral music by the grant of an annual Scholarship in the form of a monetary award)

Music In Offices

(Music In Offices makes music accessible in the work place and shares the many benefits music brings to an office environment)

Music Makers of London

(experienced amateur choir based in Barnes)

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