Paul Douglas Hillier (b. February 9, 1949), was born in Dorchester, England. He is an active conductor, director, and singer (baritone). He specializes in early music and contemporary art music, especially that of composers Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt. Hillier studied at Guildhall School of Music, and later became a vicar-scholar at St Paul's Cathedral, London, where he started his professional career. Hillier had his concert debut in 1974 in London's Purcell Room. Ensembles · In 1974 year he co-founded The Hilliard Ensemble along with fellow vicar-scholar Paul Elliott, and David James, who probably knew Elliott when they were both at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was for a period the group's musical director, until he left, around 1989. · In 1989 he founded Theatre of Voices (spelled Theater in US releases), which records on the Harmonia Mundi the french label. With this group he explores more contemporary repertoire. · When H

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