Juliana Hall - Knowledge (XXG)

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organizations, opera companies, and other presenters programming Hall's music include Art Song Colorado, Baltimore Musicales, Boston Art Song Society, Calliope’s Call, Cincinnati Song Initiative, Concerts of the Earth, Contemporary Undercurrent of Song Project, Dame Myra Hess Concert Series, dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, Joy in Singing, Lynx Project, Lyric Fest, MassOpera, Northern Ireland Opera, On Site Opera, Re-Sung, Seattle Art Song Society, Société d’Art Vocal de Montréal, Source Song Festival, Sparks & Wiry Cries, taNDem–Kunst und Kultur, and the Voces8 Foundation.

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Library, Herbst Theatre, Morgan Library & Museum, Ordway Theater, St. Paul's Cathedral, Warehouse Waterloo, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and Wigmore Hall. Festival appearances include the Beverley Chamber Music Festival, Bitesize Proms, Buxton International Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, International Lied Festival Zeist, London Festival of American Music, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Ojai Music Festival, Oxford Lieder Festival, Rhonefestival für Liedkunst, Salisbury International Arts Festival, Schumannfest Düsseldorf, and Tanglewood Music Center.

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Hall's works have been broadcast over the BBC and NPR radio networks, classical stations including WFMT (Chicago), WQXR (New York) and WGBH (Boston), and overseas stations including Radio France (Paris), Radio Monalisa (Amsterdam), Radio Horizon (Johannesburg), RTVE Radio C (Madrid), and Radio SRF 2

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During her professional career, Hall's music has been performed in dozens of countries around the world. In addition to the Library of Congress, other performances have been presented at venues including the 92nd Street Y, Ambassador Auditorium, Blackheath Halls, Corcoran Gallery of Art, the French

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wrote that, "Juliana Hall used every trick in the book – melodic and half-spoken, tonal and nontonal. She did this to enliven the words by Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Emily Bronte , Edna St. Vincent Millay and Elizabeth Bishop, to deepen the impact of the texts dealing with night and sleep, to

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Juliana Hall was born in Huntington, West Virginia in 1958 and grew up across the river in Chesapeake, Ohio. Her mother was a pianist and began teaching Juliana piano when she was six years of age. She was active in the family church, where she played, sang, and wrote her first composition. Her

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Groups performing Hall's music include ÆPEX Contemporary Performance, CHAI Collaborative Ensemble, Duo Emergence, Ensemble for These Times, Fourth Coast Ensemble, Mallarmé Chamber Players, Mirror Visions Ensemble, Prismatic Arts Ensemble, The Song Company, and Voices of Change. Art song

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class demonstrated her potential as a composer. After Kirstein died, Hall completed the final year of her bachelor's degree at the University of Louisville (where she studied with Lee Luvisi). Upon graduation, she moved to New York City to study piano (with

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From letters by Edna St Vincent Millay and Emily Dickinson to pictures by women artists, composer Juliana Hall's inspirations are highly diverse in this disc of four of her song cycles

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Kultur (Zürich). Commercial recordings have been issued on the Albany, Arsis Audio, Blue Griffin, MSR Classical, Navona, Solo Musica, Stone Records, and Vienna Modern Masters labels.

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explore the implicit emotions in sounds that ranged from a whisper to a scream, with the piano supplying illustrations and comment and engaging in vivid dialogue."

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Discovering Hidden Figures: A unique history project challenges seventh grade music class students to discover the “hidden figures” of the classical music world.

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SELECTED MODERN SETTINGS OF EMILY DICKINSON POETRY BY OSVALDO GOLIJOV, RICKY IAN GORDON, LORI LAITMAN, JAKE HEGGIE, LIBBY LARSEN, ANDRÉ PREVIN, AND JULIANA HALL

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Hall began her professional studies at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as a piano major (studying with Jeanne Kirstein), but the work she did in a

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While a student of Argento, Hall received her first commission in 1987 (from the Schubert Club of Saint Paul, Minnesota) for a song cycle –

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After several years in New York, Hall went to graduate school at the Yale School of Music as a piano performance major (studying with

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as "one of our country’s most able and prolific art song composers for almost three decades" and, in discussing her 1989 song cycle

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in Music Composition. Since that time Hall has composed works for many singers, among them acclaimed countertenors

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Making Sweet Music Together: Ensemble Singing for Duets, Trios, and Quartets. Fables for a Prince, by Juliana Hall

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Juliana Hall's art song catalogue was signed by publisher E. C. Schirmer in 2017. One earlier song cycle,

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Reading in The Dark: A Performer’s Encounter With Emily Dickinson and her American Musical Interpreters

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Reading in The Dark: A Performer’s Encounter With Emily Dickinson and her American Musical Interpreters

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Veriditas: Enlivened Creativity in selected works of Judith Zaimont, Libby Larsen and Juliana Hall

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Dame Emma Kirkby and Friends beautifully perform a programme of high imagination and distinction

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Women of Letters: a Presentation of Art Songs inspired by the Personal Correspondence of Women

109: 1288: 225:(2019) – 3 songs for mezzo-soprano and violin on poems by John Gould Fletcher and Amy Lowell 113: 71: 67: 195:(2020) – monodrama for baritone or bass baritone and piano on a libretto by Caitlin Vincent 1106: 279:(2019) – monodrama for soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano on a libretto by Caitlin Vincent 117: 59: 1414:"SongFest awards 2017 Sorel Commission to art-song champion & composer Juliana Hall!" 1306: 51:), sing in the choir of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, and usher at Carnegie Hall. 1234: 1016: 963:" DMA Dissertation (2020) Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN). 704:" DMA Dissertation (2019) Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN). 375:(2015) – 12 songs for countertenor and piano on texts from plays of William Shakespeare 297:(2016) – song for tenor and piano on excerpts from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 147:

Hall was awarded the 2017 Sorel Commission from the American art song training program

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Off the Beaten Track: Zachary James’ ‘CALL OUT’ – A Wild Trip with a Literary Bent

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grandparents provided inspiration too, exposing Juliana to folk music and poetry.

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A Brand-New Tradition: Bard College Singers and Composers at the Morgan Library

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Historical Storytelling Through the Musical Interpretation of Personal Letters

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at SUNY Potsdam, and was also invited to be the 2018 Resident Composer at

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Anne Frank’s Diary as a Song Cycle, Part of Beauty That Still Remains

453:(2014) – setting for soprano and piano of the poem by Edgar Allan Poe 309:(2017) – song for soprano and piano on a hymn text by Fanny J. Crosby 255:(2013) – song for soprano and organ on the poem by Christina Rossetti 249:(2016) – 5 songs for soprano and piano on poems by Christina Rossetti 933: