Drostan Hall, Conductor

Biography

Drostan Hall, conductor, violinist and founder of Camerata Chicago, is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England where he studied with Yossi Zivoni, and Northern Illinois University where he studied with Shmuel Ashkenasi. He has performed globally, participating in festivals in Europe and the United States. He has collaborated with distinguished artists from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Vermeer String Quartet. WFMT featured Drostan Hall and Lyudmila Lakisova in a violin and piano recital broadcast hosted by Kerry Frumkin. Maestro Hall conducted the world premier of The Story of Ferdinand orchestrated by Jonathan Blumhofer at the Utah Music Festival in 2003. He has guest conducted the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra.

In 2006 Maestro Hall and Camerata Chicago collaborated with Shmuel Ashkenasi, first violinist of the famed Vermeer String Quartet, for a series of Mozart Celebration concerts in Chicago, as well as with Comic Intermezzo in performances of Mozart's Bastien & Bastienne at the Chicago Cultural Center's Preston Bradley Hall. Maestro Hall can be heard frequently on WFMT conducting Camerata Chicago. He has released his first commercial recording on the Centaur Label directing Camerata Chicago in works by Stamitz.