BIOGRAPHY
Collectively poised and confident, Heather Hill’s career covers a broad spectrum of appearances in opera, oratorio, concert stage, television and film. 2010 engagements include working with The Dallas Opera to cover the trouser role of Pip in the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s opera Moby-Dick conducted by Patrick Summers. She also makes her Carnegie Hall debut in Carmina Burana and the Lord Nelson Mass with Distinguished Concerts International in May of this year. In the summer of 2009 she was engaged with the Caramoor Summer Festival under the baton of Will Crutchfield to cover the role of Adina in L’elisir d’Amore. She also performed the role of Azema in Semiramide and sang in a special concert of operatic selections with the festival. Ms. Hill was featured in recital with Opera Exposures in New York in the fall of 2009. Recently she added the role of Die Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte to her repertoire in performances with The Bronx Opera in New York. Additionally, she has performed Dessie in Strange Fruit with New York City Opera Vox Series, Clara in Porgy and Bess on a European tour with Harlem Productions, Lisa in La Sonnambula and Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Opera Colorado. Ms. Hill has also performed the roles Achsah in Handel’s Joshua, Dionisia in the world premiere of La Curandera by Robert Xavier Rodríguez also with Opera Colorado, the title role in Semele, Galatea in Acis and Galatea, Bastienne in Bastien und Bastienne, La Princesse in L’Enfant et les Sortileges and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro. She has worked under the baton of many notable conductors, including George Manahan, Patrick Summers, Will Crutchfield, Steven Gross,Ted Sperling and Willie Waters. As a frequent guest soloist with respected ensembles, Ms. Hill has sung with The Great Neck Choral Society, the VA-National Medical Musical Group in Washington, D.C. and the Collegiate Chorale of New York with whom she sang the role of Model and Poet in Kurt Weill’s Firebrand of Florence in 2009 at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. In 2010 she again performed with the Collegiate Chorale singing the role of Waitress in the world premiere two-act concert version of The Grapes of Wrath by Ricky Ian Gordon at Carnegie Hall.
Ms. Hill is a 2010 recipient of the Colorado Allied Arts Award. As a 2009 winner of the Liederkranz Foundation competition, Ms. Hill was awarded the Hans Hachmann Memorial Award. She was also a 2009 Gerda Lissner Encouragement Award winner, a 2009 Finalist in the Accadia Opera Competition, a 2006 Karl Schmid Memorial Award winner under the auspices of the Denver Lyric Opera Guild, a 2004 Micki Savin Award given by the Connecticut Opera Guild and was an Astral Career Grant recipient.
Ms. Hill holds a Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance from The Manhattan School of Music. She studied acting and character/scene study at the T. Schreiber Studio in New York and the National Theater Conservatory of Denver. Ms. Hill was awarded young artist and resident artist contracts with Opera Colorado, New Jersey Opera, Dayton Opera and Houston Ebony Opera.
