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Future Students
Faculty
Jamie Hillman
Faculty - Performing Arts & Worship
Mr. Jamie Hillman
Professor of Music and Worship Arts
Email: Jamie.Hillman@prairie.edu
Phone: 403.443.5511
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Education
Certificates,Conservatory Canada
ARCT, Royal Conservatory of Music
BMus, University of Western Ontario
MMus (cand.), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Background
Jamie Hillman is an award-winning singer, pianist, composer, and conductor.
As a tenor soloist, Mr. Hillman performed Handel's Messiah and Haydn's Creation with the Laudate Dominum Choir and Orchestra and Schutz’s St. Matthew Passion with the Prairie Masterworks Chorale and Red Deer College Chamber Choir. He can be heard regularly on the Sunday morning radio show “Songs for the Heart.”
A highly sought-after collaborative pianist, Mr. Hillman has shared the stage with many singers, including the internationally-renowned baritone, Kevin McMillan. In 2004, he was engaged as Apprentice Accompanist at the Berkshire Choral Festival in Massachusetts.
Mr. Hillman's choral compositions have been premiered and performed by a number of ensembles. His well-known composition, Who Would Have Thought?, was recorded by Les Choristes Women’s Choir, and garnered praise and discussion in an article in the International Journal of Education & the Arts. His Psalm was given its European premiere by the Nathaniel Dett Chorale.
A noted conductor, Mr. Hillman recently served as Assistant Conductor of both the University of Illinois Concert Choir and Black Chorus. His tenure with the Concert Choir included conducting the ensemble at numerous venues while touring Hawaii where he also co-presented a lecture-recital at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. He is the founder and former director of the award-winning Chatham-Kent Treble Choir.
A young, enthusiastic pedagogue, Mr. Hillman has held appointments at several institutions. His students frequently win awards at competitions and have gained admission into post-secondary music programs in both Canada and the United States. In the summer of 2006, he served as a Faculty-Artist member at StudiO: the Ollie Watts Davis Vocal Institute and as Vocal Director at Camp-of-the-Woods in New York. Recent adjudicating engagements have taken him to music festivals in Lacombe and Sherwood Park, Alberta. Mr. Hillman is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors, the Ontario Registered Music Teachers’ Association, and Chorus America. His list of teachers include Kevin McMillan, Tina Yanchus-Hibbard, Dr. Chester Alwes, and Dr. Ollie Watts Davis.
Involvement at Prairie
The 2006-2007 school year is Jamie's first year at Prairie.
He looks forward to building relationships with students and other faculty, as well as to his work in his private studio and with C(h)oeur des femmes.
2007/2008 Courses
MU 106 C(h)oeur des femmes
MU 117 Music Theory & Aural Skills I
MU 119 Music Theory & Aural Skills II
MU 152, 252, 352, 452 Private Voice
MU 442 Vocal Pedagogy
Keyboard Skills
Other Performing Arts & Worship Faculty
Connie Canfield
Craig Learmont
Dan Callaway
Edward Yourk
Ingrid Thornton
James Janzen
Kathy Covert
Raymond Olson
Van D.C. Williams
Vernon Charter
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