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Hilary Campbell

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Director of Choral Music

Kellogg College

Hilary Campbell is a freelance choral specialist.  She is Associate Conductor of Ex Cathedra, founder and Musical Director of Blossom Street, Musical Director of Bristol Choral Society, West London Chorus and West London Chamber Choir, and Assistant Chorus Director of London Symphony Chorus.  In 2025, she very much looks forward to taking up the position of Director of Music at Kellogg College, Oxford.  Her project work has included guest conducting ensembles such as the BBC Singers, Trinity Laban Chamber Choir and the Fourth Choir, chorus mastering the BBC Symphony Chorus and Royal Academy of Music Symphony Chorus, and she runs regular choral workshops for the Royal Opera House.  In 2021, Hilary was delighted to be awarded Making Music’s prize of Best Vocal Group Musical Director, and she and Bristol Choral Society were jointly awarded the RPS Inspiration Award.

Hilary gained a Distinction for an MMus in Choral Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music; she was also awarded the three choral conducting prizes.  Following her studies, she returned to the RAM as the Meaker Fellow, the first choral conductor to have been thus honoured.  In 2018, Hilary was thrilled to be made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.  In addition to her regular conducting work, Hilary also acts as an adjudicator, workshop leader and guest conductor, and she leads summer choral weeks for Helicon Arts and Music for Everyone.  She is a published and prize-winning composer, and has released several award-winning Naxos recordings.