Hailed by Cincinnati City Beat as “extraordinarily evocative” for his performances and reviewed by the Salisbury Post as playing with “great beauty and extraordinary brilliance,” for his performance of Sibelius Violin Concerto, Bryan Emmon Hall has performed extensively in the United States and abroad as a chamber, orchestra, violinist, violist, and conductor. Bryan Hall is the recent winner of the prestigious 31st International Conductors Workshop and Competition held in Atlanta, Georgia in 2023. Bryan has performed in such venues as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, China. He has also appeared as a soloist with over 30 orchestras.

Dr. Hall is a very passionate teacher who began teaching privately while still in high school. In Cincinnati, he taught violin and school orchestra for numerous elementary, middle, and high schools in the area where he started over 200 new violin students. He currently supervises a violin program in Milledgeville Early Learning Center that starts around 250 students a year, taught by Georgia College string students. Dr. Hall served on the faculty of The University of Alaska Fairbanks as Associate Professor of Upper Strings.  He was Concertmaster of the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra, conductor of the Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra, and conductor of the Fairbanks Youth Symphony Orchestra. He was visiting Concertmaster of the Juneau Symphony Orchestra 2018-2019.

His articles are published in publications like String Magazine. Bryan Hall is currently the Assistant Professor of Upper Strings and Orchestra Conductor at Georgia College and State University. He frequently performs in the violin sections of the Atlanta, North Carolina, Charleston, and Charlotte Symphony Orchestras.

Benjamin Whitcomb is a Professor of Cello and Music Theory at the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater, where he has received awards for his teaching, research, and service. An active recitalist and chamber musician, he performs frequently throughout the country and abroad. He is a member of the Ancora String Quartet and the UW-Whitewater Piano Trio. His solo CDs are available from MSR Classics.

Benjamin is a prolific author, having published dozens of articles in six different journals and presented over thirty papers at national and international conferences. He has contributed to three books and published ten, including The Advancing String Player’s Handbook series, Cello Fingerings, and Bass Fingerings, all of which have received rave reviews from Strings magazine plus the journals of ASTA and AUSTA. More recent books include the Compendium of Chords series and the Guide to Practicing the Popper Etudes.

Benjamin’s cello students have won numerous awards locally and nationally and have pursued graduate degrees at leading institutions. Benjamin is very active in the American String Teachers Association, having served as Wisconsin state president, national Secretary, Chair of several committees, and Articles Reviewer for the American String Teacher. 

At UW-Whitewater, Benjamin initiated and continues to coordinate the Theory/History Colloquium speaker series, the Musical Mosaics Concert Series, and the Summer String Camp. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Oklahoma State University, and he has studied with Phyllis Young, George Neikrug, and Evan Tonsing.