About
Pianist LINDA HALL is an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, where she has worked on the music staff for many of the most challenging operas in the repertory, including works by twentieth-century composers such as Schoenberg, Berg, Strauss, Britten, Corigliano, Harbison, Bolcom, and Picker. She has performed as part of the MET Orchestra in the orchestra pit for operas that require a piano part, and has appeared regularly with the MET Chamber Ensemble for the annual Carnegie Hall concert series at Weill Hall and Zankel Hall.
In addition to her work with the MET, Miss Hall collaborates with many singers and instrumentalists in concerts throughout the United States and abroad. Since 2007 she performs and records with the New York Piano Quartet. She has taught at the Israeli Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv for many summers and has done master classes in Japan and China. She has also been invited to join the Tanglewood Musical Faculty every season since 2006.
Miss Hall's recording activities include discs on the Neuma label with flutist Patricia Spencer, an album with MET Orchestra principal cellist Jascha Silberstein for the Heritage label, two CDs with the New York Piano Quartet (released in 2012 by Urlicht AudioVisual), two CDs for the French label Azur Classical and a new CD on the Capriccio label.
She received degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School, and pursued advanced studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Miss Hall is a native of upstate New York.
Published by the New York Chamber Music Festival
Linda Hall was my opera coach for several years in the mid-80s. I'll never forget one day I was late for a lesson at her studio in the Ansonia Building. I ran up the steps and down the hall to her door, but before I could ring the bell I was frozen in my tracks by the magnificent playing coming from inside. I recognized the piece as Liszt's variations on Schumann's "Widmung." The playing was so moving that I couldn't bring myself to ring the bell, but just stood there, breathless, drinking in that glorious moment. When I finally did ring the bell during a pause in the playing, a few seconds later she opened the door.
"You're late," she announced, unnecessarily.
Linda was for me a dedicated teacher and mentor. She sent me to several teachers to help move me along a career track. She played a recording for me and introduced me to several impressarios.