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Hall, Neville (b. 1962, Wellington). New Zealand composer, now resident in Slovenia, of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed in Europe and elsewhere.
Mr. Hall studied composition with John Elmsly and John Rimmer at the University of Auckland from 1987-91, where he earned his MMus. He then attended composition classes with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena in 1992, on a scholarship from the academy and the New Zealand Arts Council. He also studied with Witold Lutoslawski and others in Kazimierz Dolny in 1992 and with Brian Ferneyhough in Szombathely in 1997.
Among his honors are the Senior Bishop Music Scholarship (1989) and Fowlds Prize (1991) at the University of Auckland, the CANZ Trust Fund Award (1994) and an honorable mention in the Luigi Russolo competition (1994, for reflexive). He has also earned First Prize in the Tone Tomšic choral competition in Ljubljana (1995, for mir – peace [original version]) and a recommendation at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers (2001, for silence rained down, quenching time's fire). Most recently, he received the Prize of the Prešeren Fund (2001, for whispered by the perfumed breath of silence). His music has been performed in Australia, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, New Zealand, Spain, and the USA.
He served as composer-in-residence to Chamber Music New Zealand in 1995.
He has lived in Slovenia since 1993.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: hall.sorli@siol.net
Street address: Mr. Neville Hall, 28A Dol, SI - 1353 Borovnica, Slovenia
Telephone: + 386 1755 7185
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: configuration, 2 small orchestras (4 winds, percussion, 11 strings each), 1991; silence rained down, quenching time's fire, large orchestra (89 players), 1996-97; whispered by the perfumed breath of silence, violin, 12 strings, 1999
CHAMBER MUSIC: branching, clarinet, harp, cello, 1989; union, 2 E-flat clarinets, 2 clarinets, 2 bass clarinets, 1989; composition for solo viola, 1989; evolving music, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, string quartet, piano, 2 percussion, 1990; from a single point, clarinet, tenor saxophone, viola, cello, piano, 1990; reflexive, alto saxophone, 2-track tape, 1991; it begins..., E-flat clarinet, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, violin, 1991; octet: infiltration, flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, harp, guitar, violin, cello, 1992; the way thoughts transfigure, tenor saxophone, violin, piano, 1992; time's distance, flute, clarinet, French horn, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 1993; kontinuum 1, 4 saxophones, 1993; kontinuum 2, violin, 1993; the way time accumulates, bass clarinet, harp, violin, viola, cello, double bass, percussion, 1993; some points in time, book 1, saxophones (1 player), 1994; beneath the veil of silence, clarinet, alto saxophone, violin, cello, piano, 1994; a splinter of silence in the belly of time, clarinet, string quartet, 1995; six preludes and a postlude, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 1995; in the folds of silence 1, 2 flutes, 1996; in the folds of silence 2, 2 violins, 1996; the night recalls each flickering silence, flute, string quartet, 1997-98; darilo – gift, 2 celli, 1999; and, out of nothing, a breathing, hot breath on my ankles, flute, 2000; and the sound went up like smoke, 2 amplified vibraphones (4 players), 2000-01; and the snow's lace is spread there like sea foam, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, bass trombone, cello, double bass, 2001; beasts like shadows in glass, French horn, 2003
CHORAL: mir (text from the word "peace" in many languages), mixed chorus, alto saxophone, 1994-95 (also shorter version without alto saxophone, 1994-95); and saw the waves taking form as crystal (text by Ezra Pound), mixed chorus, 2003
PIANO: throwing the ladder away, 1994
ELECTROACOUSTIC: we squat, 4-track tape, 1990
(Last updated on August 5, 2004)
