Janet Lesley Hilton (born 1 January 1945)[1][better source needed] is a British clarinet soloist, teacher, chamber performer, and orchestral musician.
[3] Hilton recorded key works for the clarinet with the Lindsay String Quartet, including quintets by Mozart, Brahms, and von Weber, as well as English composers Arnold Bax, Arthur Bliss, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
[4][5] Michael Bryant acknowledges her as one of the contributors to the British tradition of clarinet playing.
[7] These four concertos were released with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rumon Gamba on the album Dedications (Clarinet Classics, 2000).
In his review of the album, Anthony J. Costa writes, 'The styles hint at a variety of influences including blues (Turnage), ragtime (Stravinsky), commedia dell'Arte (Cahuzac), poetry of Wordsworth (Roxburg), nature (Messaien), mythology (Crosse) and Indian classical music (Mayer).