A recipient of the 2010 Solti Foundation (US) Career Development Award, Christopher Hill recently concluded a two year tenure as the music director and conductor of the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra. During this time, Mr. Hill also served as the director of orchestras at the University of New Hampshire. A commitment to artistic excellence, innovative programming, community presence, audience engagement, and educational outreach highlight his artistic and musical priorities.

In November, 2010, Mr. Hill was one of two American-born and resident participants of the Dmitri Mitropoulos International Conducting Competition in Athens, Greece. He was also a finalist in the Cadaqués International Conducting Competition near Barcelona, Spain in June, 2010. In the summer of 2010, as part of his Solti award, he was a guest in the rehearsals of the Bayerisches Staatsoper and the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien.

A frequent guest conductor, he recently conducted three rehearsals of Verdi's Falstaff with the Boston Opera Collaborative with just two days notice. He has appeared with the Philharmonia and Concert Orchestras at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, the University of Michigan Symphony and Philharmonia, the MIT Symphony, the Richmond Symphony, the Brookline Symphony, the New Symphony Orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria, the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, and the West Shore Symphony Orchestra.

His teachers included Mark Gibson, Ulrich Nicolai, Victor Yampolsky, Marianne Ploger, and Kenneth Kiesler. He has participated in classes with Lorin Maazel, Hugh Wolff, Kurt Masur, Marin Alsop, Leonard Slatkin, Paavo Järvi, Carl St. Clair, Gustav Meier, Daniel Lewis, Thomas Wilkins, and Michael Morgan. He is a candidate for the doctoral degree in orchestral conducting at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where his document focuses on the intersection of Art Nouveau and the Symphony in Paris and Vienna. He received his masters degree from the University of Michigan.

In his multi-faceted life, Mr. Hill also works as the Director of Information Technology for the Rayburn Musical Instruments Company, where he oversees infrastructure and server operations, and where he is focused in the art of programming and web development using open-source materials, HTML/CSS and MySQL/PHP.