Jamie Hillman

Director of Community Engagement and Associate Conductor

Jamie Hillman joins TMC this Fall as Director of Community Engagement and Associate Conductor. He is a Canadian and American musician, active as a conductor, singer, pianist, music educator, and composer. He holds the endowed Elmer Iseler Chair in Conducting at the University of Toronto where he is also Director of Choral Studies and an Associate Professor. He conducts the MacMillan Singers and leads the master’s and doctoral programs in Choral Conducting. As a Boston University Prison Arts Scholar and faculty member of BU’s Prison Education Program, Hillman co-initiated an innovative vocal music program in the Massachusetts prison system.

Dr. Hillman is an examiner for Conservatory Canada and has adjudicated, guest conducted, performed, and presented at conferences throughout Canada and the United States, and in France, India, and Indonesia. He has led All-State, festival, or honour choirs in several Canadian provinces and US states. Most recently he conducted a Manhattan Concert Productions National Festival Chorus at Carnegie Hall. He returns to Carnegie Hall in April 2023 to co-conduct National Concerts’ “Canada at Carnegie!”

Hillman earned an associate diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music and degrees from Western University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Boston University where he studied with Ann Howard Jones. Dr. Hillman is the 2012 laureate of the Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting from the Ontario Arts Council.

Jamie Hillman