About Hilary

Selected by BBC Music Magazine as a Rising Star of 2022, Hilary Cronin won both First Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2021 London Handel International Singing Competition.

Hilary trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire and at Royal Holloway University of London where she was awarded the Dame Felicity Lott Bursary and the Driver Prize for Excellence in Performance.

Since then, she has established a reputation as an outstanding performer of Baroque music, gaining engagements with ensembles including Academy of Ancient Music, Arcangelo, English Baroque Soloists, The English Concert, Florilegium, Irish Baroque Orchestra, London Handel Players, La Nuova Musica, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Polyphony, The Sixteen, English
Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, and Scottish Chamber Orchestra, as well as making her
debut at the Handel Festival, Halle for Handel’s Diva, at Teatro la Fenice for Fauré Requiem and at
Carnegie Hall for Handel L’Allegro with the Monteverdi Choir.

Hilary's operatic engagements have included Piacere Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with The Early Opera Company at Buxton International Festival, Poppea Agrippina with English Touring Opera, Mother
Hansel and Gretel for Silent Opera at Opera Holland Park, Céphise Pygmalion for Dunedin Consort,
Télaïre Castor et Pollux with The Rameau Project and Mrs Waters The Boatswain’s Mate for
Grimeborne Festival.

A list of her 2025 engagements may be found on her diary page.

Her recordings include J.S.Bach Christmas Oratorio with English Baroque Soloists on DG, Second Lady Dido and Aeneas with La Nuova Musica on Pentatone SACD and Telemann Donner-Ode with Solomon's Knot on cpo.