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Jamie Hillman is a multi-faceted musician who is active as a singer, pianist, conductor, music educator, and composer. He currently serves as an assistant professor of music at Gordon College in Wenham, MA, where he directs the Gordon College Choir and Men's Choir, and teaches a number of vocal and music education courses. As a Boston University Prison Arts Scholar and faculty member of BU's Metropolitan College/Prison Education Program, he has co-initiated a music and arts program at a large, medium-high security men's prison in Massachusetts. His previous teaching includes Beaver Country Day School, Phillips Academy Andover, Prairie College, Csehy Summer School of Music, and Boston University Tanglewood Institute.
As a tenor soloist, Hillman has recently performed major choral-orchestral works by Beethoven, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Schütz and R. Nathaniel Dett with choruses and orchestras in the United States, Canada, and Southeast Asia. As a professional choral singer, has recorded and toured with Vox Futura, Canadian Chamber Choir, and Nathaniel Dett Chorale.
As a pianist, Dr. Hillman has shared the stage with numerous choirs including the Boston Children’s Chorus and Rhode Island Children’s Chorus, and professional singers including Desiree Hassler and Kevin McMillan. His choral compositions have been performed in Asia, Europe, and North America by ensembles including the Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto, Boston Children's Chorus, Calgary Girls Choir, Cantabile Choirs of Kingston, Oakville Choir for Children & Youth, Worcester Children's Chorus, and numerous other school, church, and community choirs. His popular Christmas carol, Who Would Have Thought, is published by Cypress Choral Music.
Dr. Hillman is an examiner for Conservatory Canada and has adjudicated and guest conducted at festivals, and presented at conferences, throughout Canada, the United States, and Southeast Asia. Most recently, he has led All-State and/or honor choirs in Connecticut, Georgia, Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Ontario, Canada. He has adjudicated festivals including Festivals of Music, Music in the Parks, Carowinds Festival of Music, Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association, Rhythms International, Fantastic Festivals, WorldStrides OnStage, Great East Festivals, Rhode Island ACDA, and Manitoba ChoralFest.
Hillman's upcoming engagements include: speaking at the World Symposium on Choral Music in Auckland, New Zealand; guest conducting the ACSC High School Honor Choir in Taichung, Taiwan, All-State Choirs in Maryland, New Jersey, and Utah, and a Manhattan Concert Productions Honor Choir at Carnegie Hall; and returning as a member of the jury of the Bali International Choir Festival in Indonesia.His co-editorial work includes numerous editions of Arabic, Asian, Latin American, and Western choral pieces published by Earthsongs and Hinshaw Music. Hillman holds an associate diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto) and degrees from University of Western Ontario (London, Canada), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Boston University. Dr. Hillman is the 2012 laureate of the Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting from the Ontario Arts Council.
Hillman sits on the Board of Directors of Boston's Back Bay Chorale and the Greater Boston Choral Consortium.
He lives outside Boston with his wife and two sons.
As a tenor soloist, Hillman has recently performed major choral-orchestral works by Beethoven, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Schütz and R. Nathaniel Dett with choruses and orchestras in the United States, Canada, and Southeast Asia. As a professional choral singer, has recorded and toured with Vox Futura, Canadian Chamber Choir, and Nathaniel Dett Chorale.
As a pianist, Dr. Hillman has shared the stage with numerous choirs including the Boston Children’s Chorus and Rhode Island Children’s Chorus, and professional singers including Desiree Hassler and Kevin McMillan. His choral compositions have been performed in Asia, Europe, and North America by ensembles including the Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto, Boston Children's Chorus, Calgary Girls Choir, Cantabile Choirs of Kingston, Oakville Choir for Children & Youth, Worcester Children's Chorus, and numerous other school, church, and community choirs. His popular Christmas carol, Who Would Have Thought, is published by Cypress Choral Music.
Dr. Hillman is an examiner for Conservatory Canada and has adjudicated and guest conducted at festivals, and presented at conferences, throughout Canada, the United States, and Southeast Asia. Most recently, he has led All-State and/or honor choirs in Connecticut, Georgia, Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Ontario, Canada. He has adjudicated festivals including Festivals of Music, Music in the Parks, Carowinds Festival of Music, Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association, Rhythms International, Fantastic Festivals, WorldStrides OnStage, Great East Festivals, Rhode Island ACDA, and Manitoba ChoralFest.
Hillman's upcoming engagements include: speaking at the World Symposium on Choral Music in Auckland, New Zealand; guest conducting the ACSC High School Honor Choir in Taichung, Taiwan, All-State Choirs in Maryland, New Jersey, and Utah, and a Manhattan Concert Productions Honor Choir at Carnegie Hall; and returning as a member of the jury of the Bali International Choir Festival in Indonesia.His co-editorial work includes numerous editions of Arabic, Asian, Latin American, and Western choral pieces published by Earthsongs and Hinshaw Music. Hillman holds an associate diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto) and degrees from University of Western Ontario (London, Canada), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Boston University. Dr. Hillman is the 2012 laureate of the Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting from the Ontario Arts Council.
Hillman sits on the Board of Directors of Boston's Back Bay Chorale and the Greater Boston Choral Consortium.
He lives outside Boston with his wife and two sons.
