Alec Hall
Born in Toronto in 1985, Alec Hall lives in New York City, where he works as an independent composer. His music is centered on the nature of acoustic materials in the post-Avant-Garde musical landscape. Through samples, field recordings and other representational elements of sound, Hall has created a wide-ranging body of work that crosses traditional boundaries, including solo and chamber works, orchestral compositions, experimental opera, architectural environments, kinetic installations, and intermedia pieces. His work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, the Fromm Foundation, Arts Council Norway, the New York State Council on the Arts, the French American Cultural Exchange, New Music USA, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the New York City Artist Corps, the Fromm Foundation, Das Land Steiermark (Austria), and he holds a D.M.A. from Columbia University.