Drostan Hall, conductor and founder of Camerata Chicago, is a native of the U.K. He is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England and Northern Illinois University USA.

He has performed globally, participating in festivals in Europe and the United States. He has collaborated with distinguished artists from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Vermeer String Quartet.

WFMT (FM 98.7 Radio Network Chicago) featured Drostan Hall and Lyudmila Lakisova in a violin and piano recital broadcast hosted by Kerry Frumkin.

Maestro Hall conducted the world premier of The Story of Ferdinand orchestrated by Jonathan Blumhofer at the Utah Music Festival in 2003. He has guest conducted the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra.

He has guest conducted at the Chicago Cultural Center for the City of Chicago’s Mozart 250th birthday celebration with two performances of the opera Bastien & Bastienne featuring the opera troupe, The Comic Intermezzo.

He has also collaborated with violinist Shmuel Ashkenasi for Camerata Chicago’s Mozart 250th birthday celebrations in 3 performances of Mozart’s 5th Violin Concerto. Also featured was the Symphony No. 29. DMD records issued the live performances on CD which were subsequently featured on the New Releases show at WFMT 98.7 Chicago radio station.

In November 2007 he released his first commercial recording on the Centaur Label directing Camerata Chicago in works by Stamitz.

Future engagements include guest conducting at the prestigious Woodstock Mozart Festival (August 08) as well as conducting Camerata Chicago in a world premiere of a work for soprano, strings and oboe by Gwyneth Walker to be broadcast live on WFMT, November 08.