Sebastian Hill is a British tenor currently studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Sebastian is a current scholarship holder at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford. He studies with David Pollard and is supported by the H R Taylor Trust, Drake Calleja Trust and The Countess of Munster Trust.
He is an Opera Holland Park Young Artist covering the title role in Jonathan Dove’s Itch and was previously a member of the Glyndebourne Chorus. He was awarded first prize in the London Bach Society Competition as well as the Patricia Routledge English Song Competition.
Recent debuts include Britten’s Serenade at the Barbican conducted by Roberto González-Monjas, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge in Schaffhausen, Zürich, Bern and Basel with Camerata Variable. Song highlights include a Goethe celebration at Wigmore Hall accompanied by Graham Johnson, the International Lied Festival Zeist, and the Oxford International Song Festival where he is a Young Artist. His increasing portfolio as an Evangelist includes performances with Ex Cathedra at Birmingham Symphony Hall, Oxford Bach Soloists, and Worcester Festival Choral Society.
Recent Press
"What is, I think, indisputable was some inherent beauty in the performance – especially from the tenor here, Sebastian Hill. The voice was often gorgeous, especially in the upper range – but more than that Hill was more than capable of getting into the narrative of Britten’s serenade. The Blake verse was superbly done – the scent of a rose almost palpable. Keats’s sonnet, too, was marvellous. There is certainly much that was both compelling and appealing in Hill’s singing, the voice capable of weight, and boyish lightness." Opera Today, March 2025
"Sebastian Hill, als Einziger von "extern" engagiert für die fordernde Partie des Evangelisten, liefert einen Tenor wie halbweiches Metall in der guten Tradition britischer Evangelisten, lebendig in seinen Schilderungen, teils fast schon aggressiv. Das dialogisch Dramatische bändigt er mit langem Atem in einen spannungsgeladenen Bogen auf 'weinete' nach Petrus' Verleugnung, fast eine kleine Arie für diese Partie, und beweist durchweg außerordentlich stimmliche sowie interpretatorische Reife" Lynn Sophie Guldin, April 2024
"He has an enviably fresh and flexible voice, taking the higher notes and ornamentation with ease, and receives well-deserved applause, with Barbara Frittoli also commending his singing." Edinburgh Music Review - Samling Masterclass, November 2024
"Young tenor Seb Hill started proceedings impressively. He has a clear well-centred voice, warm and powerful, and used the text well to point his phrasing and project into the hall. His vocal control was wonderfully illustrated with a flawless messa di voce." ReviewsGate - Handel's Messiah, Ex Cathedra, 2023
