Bethany Hill
Bethany Hill is an Australian singer, composer, theatre-maker, and playwright, now based in the U.S.
Hill is a specialist in 17th and 18th century music, a passionate exponent of new music, and a sought after artistic Collaborations. She integrates her love for folk and electronic music into her work, aspiring to create new sound-worlds for audiences.
As a theatre-maker and playwright, Hill recently debuted her first play with original music, Femmina Super. She was nominated for the 2024 Loud Karma Emerging Female and Non-Binary Playwright Award.
Hill co-created and performed with Patch Theatre the childrens’ opera Can You Hear Colour? which premiered to critical acclaim at the 2018 Adelaide Festival of Arts.
Hill is one half of the experimental-folk duo, Turas Ensemble, and collaborates regularly with pianist Penelope Cashman to re-imagine traditional song recitals. She has featured on a number of recordings, notably Advice to a Girl - the debut album of award-winning Australian composer, Anne Cawrse.
Hill lives in San Francisco with her husband and her dog, and spends her days dreaming of the What Next?
Daring Human - Original poem and music by Bethany Hill
Theatre
Femmina Super
In this poignant tale existing between opera and theater, one woman takes the stage, playing five instruments, inhabiting five ancestor’s voices – and her own – and performing a semi-autobiographical story of judgment and desire, detailing her dramatic escape from a repressive home to find liberation from rules and assumptions through music.
Promo for Femmina Super
Original music from Femmina Super
Arrangement of music by Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) from Femmina Super
Can You Hear Colour?
Trailer for Can You Hear Colour?
Collaborations
Title track from the album Advice to a Girl by Anne Cawrse
Music with members of Adelaide Baroque
Music from the song cycle Fires Songs by Jodie O’Regan
Turas Ensemble
Symphonic folk duo, Turas, was formed in 2023 by Victoria Fraser and Bethany Hill. With backgrounds in classical singing, composition, theatre, and a deep love for folk music, Victoria and Bethany had a desire to merge these genres, allowing them to explore the full range of the female voice through reinterpreting vocal repertoire that spans the ages.
Learn more and follow us at turasensemble.org.
