[2] A versatile singer, Hill's career has encompassed a wide repertoire from a variety of musical periods.
[2] He began his career as a founding member of Christopher Hogwood and David Munrow's Early Music Consort in 1967; an ensemble which specialized in historically informed performance of Medieval and Renaissance music.
[2] He then concentrated his career performing music from the Baroque Period before eventually moving his attention into becoming a specialist in German lieder.
He returned to Glyndebourne in 1988 as Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
He made his debut at the Scottish Opera in 1988 as Peter Quint in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw.