Discussion & Master class with Michael Hall, viola

Michael Hall

November 30, 2021 | 7:30PM
Fulton Recital Hall

Free and open to the public

Violist Michael Hall presents Making Yourself Indispensable to Your Community along with a mini-master class featuring a piano quintet from the Chamber Music Program.

Michael Hall, viola, is an international soloist, recording artists, teacher and passionate curator of new music. He has over 90 compositions written for him, performed for three former US Presidents and the King of Thailand, and is the co-founder, Artistic Director, and Director of Education of the Bandung Philharmonic - the first professional orchestra in Indonesia. This position blossomed into creating outreach programs in orphanages and refugee centers.

Michael’s given the world premieres of concertos by Kim Diehnelt, Stacy Garrop, and Chen Yi, and appeared as soloist in Vienna, Jakarta, Reykjavik, Bangkok, Los Angeles, Bali, New York City, Singapore, Boston, Sorrento, and Chicago’s Orchestra Hall. In addition, Michael gave the Asian premieres of works by Elliott Carter, Andrea Clearfield, Stephen Paulus, Shulamit Ran, Nico Muhly, and Sarah Kirkland Snider. His recordings can be found on the Centaur, Delos, Vienna Modern Masters, Acoma, Parma and Albany labels.

Michael is also co-founder of the Bach in Bali Chamber Music Festival, a former board member of the America Viola Society, curator of the NewMusicShelf Anthology: Viola Volume, and has taught at VanderCook College of Music, Guilford College, Chicago Academy for the Arts, and Illinois Wesleyan University.  Studies include the University of North Carolina Greensboro (doctorate), and University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, plus the Tokyo and LaSalle String Quartets. michaelhallviola.com