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Neville Hall

Composer

Born: 1962
Biography Works 64 Recordings 1 Resources 4

Biography

Neville Hall was born in 1962 in Wellington, New Zealand. He studied composition at Auckland University from 1987–91 with John Rimmer and John Elmsly, graduating MMus with First Class Honours in 1991. On completing university, Neville travelled to Europe where he attended summer schools and private lessons with a number of prominent composers including Franco Donatoni, Brian Ferneyhough, Witold Lutoslawski and Gerard Grisey. 

His works have been performed at festivals and concerts in Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand, and have received a number of international awards, including a Menzione d’Onore in the 16th Concorso International “Luigi Russolo” in 1995 and a Recommendation in the Paris Rostrum of Composers in 2001. Since 1993, Neville has lived in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he is active as a freelance composer.

Neville has represented New Zealand three times at the ISCM World Music Days, most recently in Beijing in 2018. In 2020, he released a CD of his music entitled Or looked back to the flowing, featuring three orchestral works and a selection of chamber music. Recent compositions include so flamed in the air for orchestra, which was premiered in Ljubljana by the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Marco Angius in 2021.

Photo credit: Klemen Kunaver

Composed (64)

a furred tail upon nothingness

for oboe, 7m

a splinter of silence in the belly of time

for string quartet and clarinet, 15m

all of a whiteness

for bass clarinet, horn and cello, 3m

And saw the waves taking form as crystal

for mixed choir, 10m

and the snow's lace is spread there like sea foam

for mixed chamber sextet, 13m

and the sound went up like smoke

for two amplified vibraphones, 9m

and the wave concealed her, dark mass of great water

for orchestra, flute and ensemble, 10m

and, out of nothing, a breathing, hot breath on my ankles

for flute, 5m

beasts like shadows in glass

for horn, 5m

beneath the veil of silence

for mixed chamber quintet and piano, 8m

Branching

for clarinet, harp and cello, 4m

But buried dust and rusted skeleton

for bass flute and bass clarinet, 6m

Composition for Solo Viola

for viola, 5m

Configuration

for chamber orchestra, 10m

Covered with close-webbed mist

for chamber quartet, 6m

crystal variations

for piano, 5m

darilo

for two cellos, 1m

et j’entendis des voix

for solo accordion, 5m

Evolving Music

for chamber ensemble, 22m

eye-glitter out of black air 1

for wind quintet, 10m

eye-glitter out of black air 2

for wind quintet, 10m

eye-glitter out of black air 3

for wind quintet and orchestra, 21m

far del silenzio cristallo 2

for piano, 6m

Flaking the black soft water

for orchestra, 9m

from a single point

for chamber quintet, 11m

Glass-glint of wave

for string quartet, 15m

in the folds of silence 1

for two flutes, 12m

in the folds of silence 2

for two violins, 13m

It Begins...

for chamber ensemble, 5m

kontinuum I

for saxophone quartet, 13m

kontinuum II

for violin, 13m

lifeless air become sinewed

for bassoon, 7m

lithe sinews of water

for chamber orchestra, 6m

Mir

for SATB choir and alto saxophone, 4m

more full of flames and voices

for clarinet, accordion and cello

not a lost shimmer of sunlight

for orchestra, 8m

now ivory stillness

for clarinet, 5m

Octet: Infiltration

for chamber octet, 5m

Or looked back to the flowing

for large orchestra, 14m

ply over ply, thin glitter of water

for chamber quintet, 16m

Reflexive

for alto saxophone and electronic sounds, 9m

silence rained down, quenching time's fire

for orchestra, 12m

six preludes and a postlude

for chamber sextet, 15m

so flamed in the air

for orchestra, 11m

some points in time, book 1

for saxophone, 17m

That paradise is hurled to nothingness

for trombone, 6m

the crystal body of air

for oboe, 5m

the crystal funnel of air 1

for two saxophones, 6m

the crystal funnel of air 2

for two saxophones, 6m

the cut cool of the air

for nine players, 14m

the lifting and folding brightness, the darkness shattered, the fragment

for alto saxophone and trumpet, 5m

the liquid and rushing crystal

for chamber ensemble, 10m

the night recalls each flickering silence

for flute and string quartet, 7m

The shadow eddying fluid

for two cellos, 5m

the sound a gemmed light 1

for brass quintet, 6m

the sound a gemmed light 2

for brass octet, 6m

the way thoughts transfigure

for tenor sax, violin and piano, 12m

the way time accumulates

for chamber septet, 13m

There is a wine-red glow in the shallows

for chamber septet, 13m

throwing the ladder away

for piano, 13m

time's distance

for chamber septet, 17m

Union

for clarinet sextet, 7m

Whispered by the perfumed breath of silence

for string ensemble, 9m

With a sky wet as ocean, flowing with liquid slate

for chamber ensemble

Recordings (1)

From Scratch: Pacific 3,2,1,Zero, Eye/Drum - CD

Audio/visual

Resources (4)

Canzona | 2001, Vol. 22, No. 43 - JOURNAL

Commentary or analysis

Music in New Zealand | Summer 1992, No. 19 - JOURNAL

Commentary or analysis

Neville Hall: Selected Works - CD

Audio/visual

Two Works by Neville Hall - CD

Audio/visual