Hall, Howard

Violinist who attended Columbia University, the Mannes College of Music, and the State University of New York in Stony Brook. His teachers included Vladimir Graffman and Paul Zukofsky.

In 1986, he joined the Little Orchestra Society and the New York Pops. He has also worked with the Queens Symphony Orchestra, and collaborated with violist Katherine Sinsabaugh.

He and Katherine appeared at Donnell Library Center on 2^nd February 2004, where they played his arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Inventions Nos. 6, 12 and 14, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Duo in B flat for Violin and Viola” and Heitor Villa-Lobos’s “Duo for Violin and Viola”.

On 5^th February 2005, they were back at Donnell for a recital that included Bohuslav Martinu’s “Madrigals”, Mozart’s “Duo No. 2 in B flat major” and Otto Siegel’s “Duo-Sonatine, Op. 138”.

Howard and Katherine teamed up with violist Kimberly Foster, violinist Michael Gillette and cellist Annabel Gordon on 26^th April 2011 at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church for the New York premiere of Carson Cooman’s “Viola Quintet” (“Unquiet Parables”) (sans “Recitatives and Chorales”).

In the field of music education, he has served on the faculty of The Brearley School.

He performs here in the New York Premiere of Carson Cooman’s Viola Quintet (Unquiet Parables)…

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