Biography: Joseph Hill

Mr. Hill has appeared as soloist with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem under the baton of Greg Funfgeld and has made other solo appearances with Amherst Early Music (Purcell’s Fairy Queen), and with the Collegium Musicum of The College of New Jersey (Purcell’s Come Ye Sons of Art). He has appeared as soloist with the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra singing Bach’s Cantata No. 161, as well as Leonard Bernstein’s Missa Brevis and Chichester Psalms. Past engagements have also included a recital for the Princeton Friends of Opera and the title role in Handel’s Solomon with the Choral Arts Society of New Jersey. Mr. Hill is also involved with the NJ based Vox Fideles, a small ensemble specializing in the performance of sacred Renaissance polyphony. In 2009, Mr. Hill traveled to Oakham, England for the Tenth Annual Tallis Scholars Summer School, and in 2010, he was selected as a finalist in the 6th Biennial Bach Vocal Competition sponsored by the American Bach Society and the Bach Choir of Bethlehem.

In 2010, Mr. Hill made his off-Broadway debut to critical acclaim (“golden-voiced,” “commanding”) originating the role of the singer in The Last Castrato—a new play by Guy Glass. He also made solo appearances in the spring of 2011 with La Fiocco Baroque Ensemble, singing concerts of Purcell and Telemann, and in the summer of 2011 made his operatic debut in New York to critical acclaim singing the roles of Il Destino and Satirino in Cavalli’s La Calisto with the Vertical Player Repertory. 2011–2012 engagements include concerts with La Fiocco (Telemann, Caccini, and Porpora), a return to Rutgers Opera Theatre as the first countertenor to play Mrs. Peachum in Britten’s The Beggar’s Opera, Arsamene in Handel’s Serse, and Tolomeo in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, (the latter of which will be performed for the Metropolitan Opera Guild in spring of 2012), alto soloist with the Christ Church (Bordentown, NJ) chorus and orchestra in Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis, and various concerts with Vox Fidelis. In March of 2012, Mr. Hill was selected as a finalist for the National Orpheus Vocal Competition, where he won the Orpheus Handel Award.

Mr. Hill is in his eighth year as Director of Music and Organist at the Community Presbyterian Church of Mountainside, NJ where he maintains an active piano and voice studio. Mr. Hill founded the Mountainside Community Chorus in 2011, and conducted the chorus and professional orchestra and soloists in their inaugural concert of the requiems of Fauré and Duruflé in April of 2011.

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