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Composer-in-Residence
Hilary Campbell
>> Read an interview with Hilary Campbell
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. In September 2007 she moved to London to take up a place at Trinity College of Music, where she is now undertaking an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in performance. She is supported by scholarships from the South Square Trust ane Greenwich Blue Coat Foundation. At Trinity, she studies composition with Stephen Montague, and singing with Alison Wells. |
 Hilary Campbell |
In August 2008 Hilary became the first Composer in Residence for The Ebor Singers. She was also the winner of the Philip Bates Prize for Young Composers in 2004, and in 2006 was a finalist in the National Youth Choir Composition Competition. Some of her works have been performed at Birmingham Conservatoire, and last term, the Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir, directed by Stephen Jackson, premiered a new choral work of hers. Future projects include working with Sonitus (www.sonitus-choir.com), who will be performing one of her works at their launch concert next month, and Sonus Cantorum (www.sonuscantorum.co.uk).
Hilary is also the founder, director and 1st soprano of vocal octet The Blossom Street Singers (www.blossomstreetsingers.com), a group which performs regularly all over the country for a variety of concerts and functions, and a choral scholar at St Sepulchre Without Newgate.