August 9-10
Conductor, violinist and founder of Camerata Chicago, Drostan Hall is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England and Northern Illinois University where he studied with Shmuel Ashkenasi. He has performed globally, participating in festivals in Europe and the United States, and has collaborated with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Vermeer String Quartet.
In 2003 he conducted the world premier of The Story of Ferdinand orchestrated by Jonathan Blumhofer at the Utah Music Festival.
Recent performances have been a WFMT live radio broadcast featuring Drostan Hall as violinist with pianist Lyudmila Lakisova in recital; a Camerata Chicago Mozart Celebration with Shmuel Ashkenasi; and performances in Chicago with the Comic Intermezzo in Mozart’s Bastien and Bastienne. In addition to his appearance with the Woodstock Mozart Festival this summer, Mr. Hall will conduct Camerata Chicago in another WFMT live broadcast featuring a work for soprano, strings and oboe by Gwyneth Walker.
In November of 2007, Mr. Hall released his first commercial recording on the Centaur Label directing Camerata Chicago in works by Johann Stamitz.
“Drostan Hall is obviously a talented conductor with tremendous energy and musical sensitivity.” – SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS