Praised by The Arts Desk for his ‘flawless’, ‘stand-out’ performances on Opera, Concert and Theatre stages around the world, countertenor James Hall enjoys great success in baroque and contemporary  repertoire, and regularly appears with some of the world’s leading ensembles and opera companies. 

This season James Hall sings HAMOR Jeptha in Bregenz, LICHAS Hercules Badisches Staatstheater  Karlsruhe, roles in a new Robert Carsen production of Monteverdi’s Ulisse for the Maggio Musicale and sings in numerous concerts with Collegium Vocale Ghent. Last season saw his first appearance with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and debuts at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as OBERON A Midsummer Night’s Dream as well as the Venice Biennale as THE BOY Written on Skin. In the UK he sang GOFFREDO in  Glyndebourne on Tour’s Rinaldo, and a concert with Sir George Benjamin to mark the composer’s 60th birthday at the Royal Festival Hall. 

James sang in Rinaldo with the Glyndebourne Festival OBERON at the Opéra National de Montpellier.  Other past engagements include a tour of Purcell and Blow duets with countertenor Iestyn Davies at  Wigmore Hall and the Palace of Versailles, GUILDENSTERN Hamlet for Glyndebourne on Tour, NARCISO  Agrippina Grange Festival, and the role of FARINELLI alongside Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance in  Farinelli and the King at the Belasco Theater on Broadway. 

He created the roles of LEON in Osborn’s The Mother Mahogany Opera Group, NATHANIEL in Na’ama  Zisser’s Black Sand for Tete-a-Tete and Grimeborn Festivals, and JOHAN in the world premiere of David  Bruce’s Nothing Glyndebourne. In concerts, James sang Bach Cantatas with The English Concert and Harry Bicket at Wigmore Hall for Bach Advent Cantatas, as well as their performance of Rinaldo at Carnegie Hall, where he made his debut performing with Sir John Eliot Gardiner in L’Orfeo. He sang ADALBERTO in Ottone with George Petrou and Il Pomo d’Oro at Festival de Beaune, soloist in Unsuk Chin’s Cantatrix Sopranica for Silbersee and Asko|Schönberg, ZEPHYRUS in Apollo et Hyacinthus with Ian Page and Classical Opera, joined the Early Opera Company for their performances of Giulio Cesare, Mozart Requiem with Masaaki Suzuki and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and Bach St John Passion with Harry Bicket and the Royal Northern Sinfonia. 

Hall studied at the Royal College of Music, and was the recipient of the Sir Geraint Evans Prize in 2009  and again in 2010, and the inaugural Somerset Song Prize in 2013.