Dr. Van-Anthoney Hall

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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.