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Jamie Hillman is a multi-faceted musician who is active as a singer, pianist, conductor, music educator, and composer/arranger. He currently serves as an assistant professor of music at Gordon College in Wenham, MA, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate music education and directs the Gordon College Men's Choir. As a Boston University Prison Arts Scholar and faculty member of BU's Metropolitan College/Prison Education Program, he has co-initiated a comprehensive choral music program at a large, medium-high security men's prison in Massachusetts.
His recent engagements as tenor soloist include Messiah with the Clark University Chorus & Orchestra and the Laudate Dominum Choir & Orchestra, Dett’s The Chariot Jubilee with the Nathaniel Dett Chorale and Windsor Classic Chorale, Saint-Säens’ Christmas Oratorio with the Rosebud Masterworks Choir, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with the Studio Cantorum Choir & Orchestra (Indonesia). He can also be heard regularly on the Sunday morning radio show, “Songs for the Heart.” As a pianist, 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 premiered and 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, Les Choristes, Oakville Children’s Choir, 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 (Vancouver, British Columbia).
Hillman is an examiner for Conservatory Canada and has adjudicated at festivals or presented at conferences in Canada, the United States, and Southeast Asia. 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 (ARCT) from the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto), degrees from the University of Western Ontario (London, Canada) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is completing a doctorate in conducting at Boston University. Hillman is the 2012 laureate of the Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting from the Ontario Arts Council.
Hillman and his wife, Mi-Mi, live in Boston, MA.
His recent engagements as tenor soloist include Messiah with the Clark University Chorus & Orchestra and the Laudate Dominum Choir & Orchestra, Dett’s The Chariot Jubilee with the Nathaniel Dett Chorale and Windsor Classic Chorale, Saint-Säens’ Christmas Oratorio with the Rosebud Masterworks Choir, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with the Studio Cantorum Choir & Orchestra (Indonesia). He can also be heard regularly on the Sunday morning radio show, “Songs for the Heart.” As a pianist, 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 premiered and 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, Les Choristes, Oakville Children’s Choir, 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 (Vancouver, British Columbia).
Hillman is an examiner for Conservatory Canada and has adjudicated at festivals or presented at conferences in Canada, the United States, and Southeast Asia. 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 (ARCT) from the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto), degrees from the University of Western Ontario (London, Canada) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is completing a doctorate in conducting at Boston University. Hillman is the 2012 laureate of the Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting from the Ontario Arts Council.
Hillman and his wife, Mi-Mi, live in Boston, MA.
