Flutist James Hall’s varied career includes significant achievements as solo recitalist, chamber player, orchestral musician, concerto soloist, and teacher. He plays principal flute with the Topeka Symphony Orchestra, and has been co-principal flutist of the Missouri Symphony Orchestra, principal flutist of the St. Joseph Symphony, and has also performed with the Sarasota Music Festival Orchestra, the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, the Kansas City Civic Opera, and the Kansas City Chorale. He has collaborated with the Aurora Trio, Music from China, and Carol Wincenc. He has been featured soloist with the Kansas City Civic Orchestra, the Southeast Kansas Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Conservatory of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he earned both master's and doctoral degrees.
Hall is flutist, founder and artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Kansas City, whose highly successful 2003-2004 debut season brought together an outstanding group of musicians from a number of the area's leading professional ensembles and universities. In addition to his active commitment to nurturing appreciation and excitement for chamber music repertoire in the Kansas City area, Hall is devoted to the continued development and exposure of new flute repertoire. Most recently, he performed the regional premieres of Daniel Kessner's Celebrations for Flute and Orchestra and Paul Schoenfield's Klezmer Rondos, and the U.S. premier of Hubert Bird's Flute Concerto, and has commissioned new works for flute by American composers William Lackey and Stephan Casurella.
As a winner of Artists International, Hall gave his Carnegie Hall debut in 2004, and has performed recitals and given master classes throughout the United States. He is currently the flute professor at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado.
