The Canadian violinist Lucia Hall received her musical education from professors such as Prof. T. Gabora, Prof. E. Turovsky, and Prof. D. Schwarzberg at the “Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Wien.” She has also attended masterclasses by esteemed musicians including Igor Ozim, Michael Kugel, Yuri Bashmet, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, and Valentin Berlinsky (Borodin Quartet). Sir Yehudi Menuhin offered Lucia a scholarship to study at the Yehudi Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad.

Ms. Hall has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe, North America, and Russia in venues such as the “Bolshoi Saal,” the “Kölner Philharmonie,” “Place des Arts,” and the Vienna “Konzerthaus,” and participates in numerous festivals including “Martha Argerich and Friends,” the “Haydn Festspiele Eisenstadt,” the “Montreux Festival,” the “Oleg Kagan Festival,” the “Klangbogen Wien,” and the “Progetto Martha Argerich” Festival in Lugano. In chamber music, she has performed with musicians such as Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky, Ivry Gitlis, Nobuko Imai, Lilya Zilberstein, José Gallardo, Polina Leschenko, Milan Turkovitch, Dora Schwarzberg, Alexander Mogilewsky, Mark Drobinsky, Lars Anders Tomter, Torleif Tedéen, and Alexander Rabinovitch-Barakovsky.

Lucia Hall is a prize-winner of several national and international competitions such as the “Romano Romanini” (Italy), the “Brahms Wettbewerb” (Austria), and the “Mozart International Festival for Young Artists” (USA), as well as a special “Audience Award” at the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition. She was granted scholarships from the “Canada Council” and the “Ministère des Affaires Culturelles du Québec” and was awarded a Special Merit Prize by the Austrian Ministry of Culture and Education upon graduation.

Ms Hall has given Master Classes in Canada, Venezuela, Ecuador, Russia,  Croatia, France, Switzerland, Norway, Italy and Austria. Many of the students she has coached have won important competitions and several have secured leading orchestral positions. 

She has premiered many new works, some written for her, such as the Duo for Violin and Cello by Lucio Bruno Videla performed in the Musikverein,  the Austrian Première of Hans Kunstovny Violin Concerto also in the  Musikverein, “Mavrya” by Andrea Liberovici in honor of Martha Argerich and Ivry Gitlis performed in Lugano, the Première of Alexander Rabinovitch-Barakovsky’s composition “Die Zeit, for piano, violin, cello and celesta”, from which a live CD for” MegaDisc” was produced.  

Lucia Hall has participated in several CD productions for the “Chandos”; “Gramola” and “EMI Classics”  labels.