Tom Hall

In addition to serving as the music director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society for 32 years, Tom Hall is also a broadcaster, teacher, lecturer, and writer. He is invited frequently to speak to professional and community organizations, including the Oregon Bach Festival, American Choral Directors Association, the College Endowment Association, the Baltimore Broadcaster’s Coalition, The Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute, the Johns Hopkins Community Conversations Series, and the Ewald Symposium of Sweetbriar College. He has interviewed prominent authors and artists at the Baltimore City Lit Festival, the Baltimore Book Festival, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Walters Art Museum. In addition, he serves frequently as a panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts.

Hall is also the culture editor and co-host of Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast and the host of Choral Arts Classics on WYPR radio in Baltimore. He has appeared frequently on WBJC’s Face the Music and WEAA’s Marc Steiner Show. Hall served as the host of the Maryland Morning Screen Test from 2010-2012. In 2006, he received an Emmy Award for Christmas with Choral Arts which is broadcast annually on WMAR television. In 2007, he was named Best New Broadcast Journalist by the Maryland Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and in 2009, the Baltimore City Paper named him Best Local Radio Personality. For the past 31 years, he has been the director of choral activities at Goucher College and has lectured at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Peabody Conservatory, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Baltimore, Towson University, Morgan State University, and the Johns Hopkins University. Hall previously served as President of Chorus America and has been an artist-in-residence at the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, Temple University, and Syracuse University.