Hillary Jean Young (2024 — present)

Hillary Jean Young is a musi­cian, vocal­ist, and impro­vis­er work­ing in exper­i­men­tal music, new opera, and con­tem­po­rary cham­ber music. Hillary has per­formed with numer­ous ensem­bles and col­lec­tives, such as kallisti cham­ber opera, Oper­aQ, red fish blue fish, Quin­ta­gious!, FAWN Cham­ber Cre­ative, Din of Shad­ows, and The Hap­pen­stancers. In 2019, Hillary earned their Doc­tor of Musi­cal Arts in Con­tem­po­rary Music Per­for­mance from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, San Diego (UCSD), where they stud­ied with Gram­my award-win­ning sopra­no Susan Naruc­ki. In addi­tion to their work as a per­former, Hillary has held cura­to­r­i­al and admin­is­tra­tive roles with Con­tin­u­um Con­tem­po­rary Music, Paper Bag Records, and Oxin­gale Music.

I am absolute­ly thrilled to be rep­re­sent­ing Ontario on the CNMN board of direc­tors. I believe whole-heart­ed­ly in CNM­N’s mis­sion, and I look for­ward to help­ing to shape the future of this orga­ni­za­tion. I have a deep admi­ra­tion for the ways in which CNMN encour­ages col­lab­o­ra­tion and con­nec­tion through music and sound while still pri­or­i­tiz­ing acces­si­bil­i­ty, and I am excit­ed to have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to both con­tin­ue and build upon that invalu­able work.