[5][6] Herschel Hill studied at the Royal College of Music as a pianist, organist, and composer, for which he won several of the major prizes.
As a composer, several of his pieces have appeared on the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) exam lists and on BBC Radio 3.
[12] By 1986, he was director of music at St Simon Zelotes Church in London,[13][7] a position he held for more than a quarter of a century.
He wrote Ave Verum Corpus in 1990 for Prebendary John Pearce and the choir of St Simon Zelotes Church.
[14][15] In 1964, Herschel Hill married Joan Havill, a New Zealand pianist, with whom he had studied at the Royal College of Music, in Kensington, London.