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Tenor Van-Anthoney Hall
holds a Master of Music in voice/opera performance from Southern
Methodist University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in vocal performance
from North Carolina A&T State University.
He has had the pleasure of working with the Dallas Opera, Utah Festival
Opera and Houston Ebony Opera companies and Virginia Tech respectively.
His vocal credits include opera/theatre performances in the Marriage of
Figaro, Tosca, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Porgy and Bess, Black Nativity, The
Consul and the Merry Widow. His concert credits include faculty and
regional recitals of Spirituals and Art Songs by African American
composers to include Spiritual Swings, In the Words of Langston and I
Too, Sing America. In addition, Van received artist grants from the Arts
Council of Greater Baton Rouge (2001) and from The Louisiana Division of
the Arts (2001).
Van-Anthoney is a former Professor of Voice in the division of Visual
and Performing Arts at Southern University in Baton Rouge and is
currently a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign. His research is in the areas of Curriculum Theory,
Black Aesthetics and Aesthetic Education.
Van’s most recent music project includes performing and recording with
his Jazz ensemble VANISM. With its point of origin in Dallas, Texas,
Vanism has performed with Artist for Amnesty at Southern Methodist
University-Dallas Texas as well as recital performances in Paris,
Neuilly and Bordeux, France.
Van maintains an active performance schedule with
Panache Jazz- Cabaret trio; performing in Champaign, Illinois and
throughout the mid west. Forthcoming concerts in 2007 and 2008 include
Jazz recitals at A&T State University which feature the works of
composers such as Eubie Blake and Duke Ellington.
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