William D. Hall(1934-2023)
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William Hall holds a Ph.D from the University of Southern California.
He is dean of the School of Music and holds the Bertea Family Endowed
Chair in Music at Chapman University in Orange, California, where he
has taught for nearly 40 years. He has taught at major music
conservatories around the world, and has written dozens of
compositions, including his own choral series with National Music
Publishers. His professional choral group, the William Hall Chorale
(formerly the Orange County Master Chorale), was under contract to
Columbia Artists Management for 30 years and appeared with the Los
Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and the City
of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Hall has appeared as guest
conductor of choirs throughout the United States, Asia and Europe,
including performances with the Vienna Symphony, the Frankfurt Radio
Orchestra, the London B.B.C. Symphony, the Musicians of London, the
Sinfonia of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and the Central Philharmonic
Orchestra of Beijing.