HILARY CAMPBELL
Musical Director
Hilary Campbell is a freelance choral specialist. She trained at the University of York, Trinity College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied with Patrick Russill and was awarded the Meaker Fellowship for 2012-13, subsequently becoming an Associate of the Academy (ARAM). She is founder and Musical Director of professional chamber choir Blossom Street, with whom she released two award-winning Naxos recordings, and Musical Director of Bristol Choral Society, West London Chorus and West London Chamber Choir. She has worked as guest director for ensembles including the BBC Singers, Trinity Laban Chamber Choir, the University of Greenwich Choir, the BBC Symphony Chorus and Royal Academy of Music Symphony Chorus. Since 2017, she has been a BMus Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music and runs there an annual project with Master of the Queen’s Music Dame Judith Weir, in conjunction with Blossom Street and the RAM composition department. Previously, she conducted the P&O Ferries Choir, the group which won the BBC2 series ‘The Choir’. At the 2021 Making Music award ceremony, Hilary was honoured to be awarded Best Vocal Group Music Director. She is a founder member of the Voices of London Festival and is also a published and prize-winning composer.
KRYSTAL TUNNICLIFFE
Accompanist
Krystal Tunnicliffe is an Australian musician who enjoys a varied career as a collaborative pianist and music educator. She is a Samling Artist, Britten-Pears Young Artist, Ryedale Festival Young Artist, and an Oxford Song Young Artist, and a staff pianist in the Junior department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. With duo partner Siân Dicker, she has performed at the LIFE Victoria Festival (Barcelona), International Lied Festival (Zeist), Aldeburgh Festival, Ryedale Festival, Oxford Song Festival, and on BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’. They have recently released their debut disc, ‘Walton: Complete Song Collection’, with Delphian Records in 2024.
In 2019, Krystal won the prize for the Best Accompanist in the Heats at Melbourne National Liederfest, and with Harriet Burns was a finalist at the Maureen Lehane Awards. Other recent highlights include performances with Brindley Sherratt and Nicky Spence and performances in London, Cornwall, Ireland, Wales, Belgium, Italy and France, including recitals at Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, St-Martin-in-the-Fields, and LSO St Luke’s. Krystal completed Bachelor and Masters degrees (with distinction) from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Guildhall School respectively, before undertaking a Junior Fellowship at the Guildhall School. She studied with Glenn Riddle and Andrew West, and now studies privately with Christopher Glynn. She is also a graduate of the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien.