May 14, 2021
Hillman has accepted an appointment as Elmer Iseler Chair in Conducting/Director of Choral Studies/Associate Professor of Music at the University of Toronto.
October 25, 2011
Hillman's popular Christmas carol for SSA voices, Who Would Have Thought, will be published by Cypress Choral Music (Vancouver, BC) in the spring of 2012.
November 4, 2011
Beginning in January 2012, Hillman will be teaching a choral music course for Boston University's Metropolitan College/Prison Education Program at a large, medium-high security men's prison in Massachusetts.
February 19, 2012
Hillman and Andre de Quadros presented their research and shared their practical experience on choral singing in prisons at the American Choral Directors Association's Eastern Division Conference in Providence, RI on Friday, February 17.
March 22-25, 2012
Hillman will be doing a residency with the Windsor Classic Chorale (Windsor, ON). While in Windsor, he will be leading workshops for school and church choirs and performing as tenor soloist in the Chorale's 35th anniversary concert.
May 20, 2012
Hillman won the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers Association's Call for Compositions. His piano piece, "Land of the Silver Birch", is published on the CFMTA website and will be performed by young pianists from coast to coast during Canada Music Week (November 18-24). An interview on Hillman's compositions and musical career will be featured in the September 2012 issue of The Canadian Music Teacher.
June 23, 2012
Hillman presented "Crossing the Great Divide: Choral Singing in Prisons" at the Yale International Choral Festival/Choirs Transforming Our World at Yale University.
September 20, 2012
Hillman and Emily Howe were awarded the Boston University Prison Arts Scholar Award "in honor of their commitment to bringing music appreciation to MCI-Norfolk and MCI-Framingham, through BU's Prison Education Program." Hillman will give a public lecture with Andre de Quadros on their research and work as part of the Citizens Artist Series on November 19 at Boston University.
November 2012
Hillman performed as pianist in a performance of the two piano and percussion version of Orff's Carmina Burana with the Clark University Concert Choir, directed by Dr. Christine Noel.
December 3, 2012
Hillman is the winner of the Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting from the Ontario Arts Council and Choirs Ontario. Hillman will be presented with the award at the Chatham-Kent Children's Chorus Christmas concert on Sunday, December 16.
Hillman has accepted an appointment as Elmer Iseler Chair in Conducting/Director of Choral Studies/Associate Professor of Music at the University of Toronto.
October 25, 2011
Hillman's popular Christmas carol for SSA voices, Who Would Have Thought, will be published by Cypress Choral Music (Vancouver, BC) in the spring of 2012.
November 4, 2011
Beginning in January 2012, Hillman will be teaching a choral music course for Boston University's Metropolitan College/Prison Education Program at a large, medium-high security men's prison in Massachusetts.
February 19, 2012
Hillman and Andre de Quadros presented their research and shared their practical experience on choral singing in prisons at the American Choral Directors Association's Eastern Division Conference in Providence, RI on Friday, February 17.
March 22-25, 2012
Hillman will be doing a residency with the Windsor Classic Chorale (Windsor, ON). While in Windsor, he will be leading workshops for school and church choirs and performing as tenor soloist in the Chorale's 35th anniversary concert.
May 20, 2012
Hillman won the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers Association's Call for Compositions. His piano piece, "Land of the Silver Birch", is published on the CFMTA website and will be performed by young pianists from coast to coast during Canada Music Week (November 18-24). An interview on Hillman's compositions and musical career will be featured in the September 2012 issue of The Canadian Music Teacher.
June 23, 2012
Hillman presented "Crossing the Great Divide: Choral Singing in Prisons" at the Yale International Choral Festival/Choirs Transforming Our World at Yale University.
September 20, 2012
Hillman and Emily Howe were awarded the Boston University Prison Arts Scholar Award "in honor of their commitment to bringing music appreciation to MCI-Norfolk and MCI-Framingham, through BU's Prison Education Program." Hillman will give a public lecture with Andre de Quadros on their research and work as part of the Citizens Artist Series on November 19 at Boston University.
November 2012
Hillman performed as pianist in a performance of the two piano and percussion version of Orff's Carmina Burana with the Clark University Concert Choir, directed by Dr. Christine Noel.
December 3, 2012
Hillman is the winner of the Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting from the Ontario Arts Council and Choirs Ontario. Hillman will be presented with the award at the Chatham-Kent Children's Chorus Christmas concert on Sunday, December 16.
