SebastianHill
- Tenor
- Fellow
About Sebastian
Sebastian Hill is a fast-rising British tenor and current Lies Askonas Fellow. A graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford, he now studies on the Opera Course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Pollard.
In Summer 2025 Sebastian was an Opera Holland Park Young Artist covering the title role in Jonathan Dove’s Itch.
Recent debuts include Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings at the Barbican conducted by Roberto González-Monjas and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge in Schaffhausen, Zürich, Bern, and Basel with Camerata Variabile.
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.
This season he performs the Matthäuspassion Evangelist with the Irish Baroque Orchestra/Peter Whelan, the Johannes-Passion Evangelist with Ex Cathedra/Jeffrey Skidmore at Birmingham Symphony Hall and the Weihnachtsoratorium with Polyphony and the Britten Sinfonia/Stephen Layton.
Sebastian is the winner of the London Bach Society Competition (2024) and the Patricia Routledge English Song Competition (2023).
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Season Highlights
Video
- Playing
'Che orribile aspetto' (Tozzi: Orfeo ed Euridice)
Sebastian Hill performs Che orribile aspetto from Tozzi's Orfeo ed Euridice with The Mozartists (Ian Page) at Cadogan Hall September 2025 Credit: The Mozartists 2025
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31 - Benjamin Britten (7. Sonnet)
Sebastian Hill (Tenor) Sarah Pennington (Horn) Roberto González-Monjas (Conductor) Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Barbican Concert Hall Credit: GSMD
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31 - Benjamin Britten (5. Dirge)
Sebastian Hill (Tenor) Sarah Pennington (Horn) Roberto González-Monjas (Conductor) Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Barbican Concert Hall Credit: GSMD 2025
