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The English soprano, Hilary Cronin, read Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. In her final year, she was awarded the Driver Prize for Excellence in Performance and The Dame Felicity Lott Bursary to help with postgraduate studies. She was a Choral Scholar of The Choir of Royal Holloway and performed solos on Hyperion discs and live BBC Radio 3 Broadcasts. She trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (2012-2016). She completed a Postgraduate Diploma and an FTCL Diploma and was a Trinity College London, Dame Susan Morden and Robinson Hearn Scholar. She is studying with Alison Wells and has taken part in master-classes with Dame Felicity Lott at the 2014 Three Choirs Festival in Worcester, with Dame Emma Kirkby and with Michael Chance at The Royal Greenwich International Early Music Festival, Kathryn Harries at Nevill Holt Opera, Janis Kelly at Royal Holloway University, and with Susan Bullock and Sir Mark Elder for British Youth Opera. She trained with British Youth Opera on their 2020 - 21 Serena Fenwick Programme. She was a Semi-Finalist in the 2020 Kathleen Ferrier Awards.
Hilary Cronin is a London-based soprano enjoying a freelance career of opera and ensemble singing. She has appeared in numerous operatic productions. She covered the role of Minerva in Monteverdi’s Ulysses’ Homecoming and of Diana in Cavalli’s La Calisto for English Touring Opera in their 2016 Autumn season. At the 2018 Grimeborn Festival, she performed the role of Mrs Waters in Ethel Smyth’s The Boatswain’s Mate with Spectra Ensemble. She sang the role of Grilletta in Haydn's Lo Speziale with Baroquestock Opera in 2018. Other roles include: Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel and Noémie in Massenet’s Cendrillon for Opera Holloway, Susan in Berkeley’s A Dinner Engagement and Nance in Stephen McNeff's opera Banished at Trinity Laban, and Second Woman and 2nd Witch in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with The New Generation Festival. In 2019, she covered the role of Despina in W.A. Mozart's Cosi fan tutte for Nevill Holt Opera. In Opera Scenes, she has sung Marchellin in Der Rosenkavalier, Tina in Flight, Rosmene in Imeneo, Vitellia in W.A. Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito, Lisette in La Rondine, and La Musique in Les Plaisirs de Versailles. More recently, she sang the part of Cephise in a recording of Rameau's Pygmalion with Dunedin Consort for Spitalfields Music Festival. This summer (2021), she performed the role of Mother in Hansel and Gretel for British Youth Opera and Silent Opera at Opera Holland Park. In spring 2022, she will sing the role of Une Ombre in Rameau's Castor et Pollux with The Opera Company and Baroquestock.
Hilary Cronin is an experienced ensemble singer. She sang chorus in Verdi's Requiem and Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini with The Monteverdi Choir (Director: John Eliot Gardiner), and has toured with Dunedin Consort (Director: John Butt), Arcangelo (Director: Jonathan Cohen), and the Chamber Choir of London. She has also worked with BBC Singers, The Marian Consort (Director: Rory McCleery), Fieri Consort, Choir of the Age of Enlightenment, Ora Singers, Britten Sinfonia Voices, London Voices (Director: Terry Edwards), Philharmonia Voices, Sansara, Reverie, Siglo de Oro and Armonico Consort (Director: Christopher Monks). She is regular soprano at St Bartholomew-the-Great and at Holy Sepulchre London and is a member of vocal ensembles St Martin’s Voices, Seraphim, and Echo.
Hilary Cronin is in demand as an oratorio soloist. Hilary has also appeared as a soloist with Istante Baroque, and with the Will Todd Ensemble. |
