Juliana Hall

Juliana Hall (born 1958) is an American composer of art songs, monodramas, and vocal chamber music. She has been described by the National Association of Teachers of Singing’s (NATS) Journal of Singing as “one of our country’s most able and prolific art song composers for almost three decades” and, in discussing her 1989 song cycle Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush, the journal went on to assert that “Even at this very early stage in her life and career, Hall knew something about crafting music whose beauty could enhance the text at hand without drawing attention away from that text. This is masterful writing in every respect.” Early life Juliana Hall was born in Huntington, West Virginia, in 1958 and grew up across the river in Chesapeake, Ohio. Her mother was a pianist and began teaching Juliana piano when she was six years old. She was active in the family church, where she played, sang, and wrote her first composition. Her grandparents also provided inspiration, exposing Juliana to folk music and poetry. Hall began her professional studies at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as a piano major (studying with Jeanne Kirstein). Still, her work in a composition for