Hilary was educated at The University of East Anglia and, on a Vaughan Williams scholarship, at The Royal Academy of Music.  She began her career with The Ambrosian Singers and other recording and broadcasting groups.  As a soloist, Hilary has sung for many UK choral societies; most recently in Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle for the Leicester Philharmonic,  Elgar's The Music Makers for the Nottingham Choral Trust and Schubert's Mass in Ab with the Thames Philharmonic Choir.

Last Autumn she played Mrs. Peachum in Central Festival Opera's production of The Beggar's Opera.  Other operatic roles have included Hansel, with Opera Viva,  Thisbe in Cendrillon for Abbey Opera at the Purcell Room and  Donella  in Zandonai's  Francesca da Rimini for Chelsea Opera Group at The Queen Elizabeth Hall.  More unusual ventures have included the role of ``Mrs. Jedermann" in David Blake's ``Scoring a Century" with the Lillian Baylis Project at ENO and a performance of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater at The Bloomsbury Theatre in the 2001 Dance Festival (during which she realised a long-held ambition to be lifted by a male dancer whilst singing an aria!)

For ten years, Hilary toured with her trio Cavatina throughout the UK, Channel Islands and Eire sponsored by the Arts Council, and in London appeared with them in such varied venues as St. John's, Smith Square, The Lyric Studio, Hammersmith and Covent Garden Piazza. In 1995 Hilary took her original one-woman comedy ``A Chorus of One" directed by Keith Warner to the Edinburgh Festival.  She now sings with the all-female company Scene Stealers - most recently in their show, ``Saints and Sinners`` at The Electric Theatre, Guildford. She has a private teaching practice in South West London.

Hilary studies with Neil Semer.  When not singing she enjoys her husband's cooking,  the cinema and tap dancing.