Sebastian Hill is a British tenor currently studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Sebastian is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford and is a current scholarship holder at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was awarded first prize in the London Bach Society Competition as well as the Patricia Routledge English Song Competition.
He studies with David Pollard, and is supported by the H R Taylor Trust, Drake Calleja Trust and The Countess of Munster Trust. In the autumn he will start on the Opera Course at the Guildhall. Sebastian was a member of the 2024 Glyndebourne Chorus for performances of Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, and will be an Opera Holland Park Young Artist 2025 covering the title role in Jonathan Dove’s ‘Itch’.
Recent debuts include Wigmore Hall as part of a Goethe celebration accompanied by Graham Johnson, the Oxford International Song Festival where he is a Young Artist alongside duo partner Will Harmer, and the International Lied Festival Zeist. He recently performed Ralph Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge with Camerata Variabile in Bern, Basel, Schaffhausen, and Zürich, and the Britten Serenade at the Barbican with Guildhall Symphony Orchestra. Concert highlights include Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin (Oxford Festival of the Arts), Bach's St John Passion (Oxford Bach Soloists, Worcester Cathedral Choir, New College Choir, Winchester Bach Voices), Haydn’s Creation (Burford Singers), Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Birmingham Symphony Hall, Ex Cathedra/New College Choir, Oxford), Handel's Messiah (Birmingham Symphony Hall, Ex Cathedra), and Monteverdi Vespers (Birmingham Town Hall, Ex Cathedra). He is a Samling Artist, and was a graduate scholar with Ex Cathedra and the Oxford Bach Soloists. As a member of the Guildhall semi-chorus he performed Mendelssohn's Elijah with the LSO/Antonio Pappano.
Upcoming engagements include Evangelising for several performances of Bach Passions in the UK.
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
"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
