Mike Hall

MIKE HALL was appointed professor of trombone/euphonium and brass choir director at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA in 2006. He served as professor of trombone and member of the Kansas Brass Quintet at the University of Kansas 2000-2006, and at Eastern Michigan University 1995-2000 where he was lecturer of low brass and director of the EMU Jazz Ensemble. Since 1998 he has served as Literature Reviews Editor for the International Trombone Association Journal. He has received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in trombone performance from the University of Minnesota, the Master of Music degree also in trombone performance from the University of Arizona, and the Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. His principal teachers include Thomas Ashworth, Tom Ervin, Vern Kagarice, and Brian Martz.

Dr. Hall has performed extensively throughout the United States, Mexico, Europe and China covering a large spectrum of styles. He has performed often with the symphony orchestras of Richmond, Virginia, Kansas City, Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, Topeka, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Tucson, and the Kansas City Lyric Opera, Virginia Opera and Arizona Opera. Dr. Hall performed as Solo Trombonist with the Fountain City Brass Band in Kansas City 2002-2004. He has also been quite involved in pit orchestra performances ranging from ballet to light opera to theater. The Arizona Theater Company cast him as on-stage trombonist for their production of "Ain't Misbehavin'", and he has backed such notable entertainers as Natalie Cole, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Maureen McGovern, Jack Jones, Vanessa Williams, Ben Vereen, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Bob Hope, Kenny Rogers, Bob Newhart, and many others.

As a jazz musician, Dr. Hall's experiences range from small group leader to big band trombonist. He played lead trombone in Frank Foster's Big Band 2008-2009 and served on the International Music Camp Jazz Week faculty for several years. He was a member of the Couriers, a ten-piece group based in Ann Arbor, MI and frequent guest with the Bird of Paradise Orchestra in Ann Arbor. In Michigan Dr. Hall led a quartet featuring pianist Rick Roe, bassist Paul Keller and drummer Aron Siegel. He also appeared in Detroit with Wendell Harrison, Marcus Belgrave, Walter White, Johnny Trudell, Bill Meyer and many more of Detroit's finest jazz artists. Dr. Hall also appeared regularly with salsa bands Latin Sounds in Minneapolis and the Edgar Leon Group in Detroit, and served as Staff Musician aboard the S.S. Norway, Royal Viking Sea, and Crystal Symphony. His solos took first place in the 1991 Tucson Jazz Society Competition and he is a three-time winner of the Eau Claire Jazz Festival Combo Competition.

As a soloist, Dr. Hall performs a wide range of repertoire in classical and commercial settings Throughout the USA, Canada and Europe. He has recorded four solo compact discs, Arcangelo Corelli Solo Chamber Sonatas Opus 5 for alto trombone, harpsichord and double bass, J.S. Bach: The Gamba Sonatas, Benedetto Marcello Solo Sonatas Opus 1 and Art of Fugue. In 1994 Dr. Hall won a position on the Christian Lindberg Solo Seminar at the University of North Texas where he worked with Mr. Lindberg for seven days of intensive study in the art of solo performance. Mike Hall is a C.G. Conn and Selmer Bach performing artist.

Instruments

Trombone, Euphonium

Contact Information

Email: jhall@odu.edu

Website: https://fs.wp.odu.edu/jhall/

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Institutions

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Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia

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