Tenor Dr. James Hall joined the voice faculty at the University of North
Florida in 2011. A graduate of Rice University's Shepherd School of Music and the Maryland Opera Studio, Hall enjoys an active and varied career that includes opera, oratorio, chamber music, and solo recital. A specialist in high tenor and haute-contre repertoire, Dr. Hall is
frequently called upon as tenor soloist in Orff's Carmina Burana. He has performed the work to rave reviews in some of the nation's most prominent concert halls, including Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Orlando's Dr. Phillips Center, and Kansas City's Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
Consistently praised for his soaring upper register and vocal beauty, Hall has performed operatic roles throughout the United States, including Brighella and Tanzmeister in Ariadne auf Naxos, Linfea in La Calisto, the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, Basilio in Le nozze di Figaro, and Damon/Corydon in Handel's masque Acis and Galatea. Equally at home in chamber music, Dr. Hall has made guest appearances with Mercury Baroque (Houston), St. Matthew's Cathedral Singers of Washington, DC, and Jacksonville's St. Mark's Bach Ensemble. In 2012, he performed as tenor soloist with the UNF Chamber Singers in a concert tour throughout South Africa. Most recently, he has collaborated with the Valdosta Symphony, the Coastal Symphony of Georgia, and Jacksonville University's Choral and Percussion Ensembles.
Well-regarded as an accomplished vocal pedagogue, Dr. Hall has presented lectures at Iowa Music Educators Association Conference, Florida ACDA State Conference, Tennessee Music Educators Association Conference, and at the World Symposium on Choral Music (IFCM) in Seoul, South Korea. He has given guest master classes at universities across the United States and abroad and is frequently sought after as an adjudicator. In 2015, Dr. Hall joined the summer faculty at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan, where he taught voice and lyric diction.