Hilary Cronin

Hilary Cronin won both First Prize and Audience Prize at the 2021 London Handel International Singing Competition and was selected by BBC Music Magazine as a “Rising Star of 2022.” Conductors with whom she has worked include Sofi Jeannin, David Bates, KristianBezuidenhout, Harry Bicket, Harry Christophers, Jonathan Cohen, Laurence Cummings, Christian Curnyn, Maxim Emelyanychev, John Eliot Gardiner, Trevor Pinnock, Christophe Rousset, Andras Schiff, Dinis Sousa, and Peter Whelan.

During the 2025–26 season, Cronin makes her debut at MusikTheater an der Wien singing the title role in a new production of Cesti’s L’Orontea and sings Melissa in Amadigi with the English Concert at Buxton International Festival. With Polyphony, she sings Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Messiah; with Springhead Constellation, she tours Bach’s Easter Oratorio and Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang; with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, she sings Bach’s St John Passion; with Royal Northern Sinfonia, she sings Mahler’s Symphony No. 4; and with Gabrieli ROAR, she appears in Baroque Masterpieces. Cronin will also join Arcangelo to sing Handel’s Nine German Arias at London Handel Festival; Irish Baroque Orchestra to sing Messiah; and The King’s Consort to sing Coronation of King George and Messiah.

Her growing discography now includes Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (DGG); Charpentier’s A Baroque Christmas (SDG CD); Handel’s Chandos Anthems (Alpha Classics); Howells’ Sine nomine (Hyperíon); Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Pentatone); and Telemann’s Donner-Ode (cpo).