SebastianHill

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.

In the 26/27 season Seb continues his close collaboration with Ex Cathedra with performances of Britten St Nicholas, Beethoven Missa Solemnis, and Evangelises with them for St Matthew Passion. Other highlights of his concert work include Christmas Oratorio with Oxford Phil, Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with Ulster Orchestra, and recitals at OxfordSong and Chipping Campden Festivals.

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.

Sebastian is the winner of the London Bach Society Competition (2024) and the Patricia Routledge English Song Competition (2023).