BachScholar™, established in 2011 by Dr. Cory Hall, is a family owned and operated online music publishing company currently in its beginning stages. BachScholar™ strives to be a unique and invaluable resource for musicians in all areas who seek the highest quality and affordable music and resources for life-long learning, renewal, and enrichment. BachScholar™ is currently preparing an exciting and varied selection of downloadable sheet music, technical exercises for pianists, as well as helpful resources for all musicians. Among its future offerings:

• BachScholar's special editions of popular piano classics, ragtime & novelty music
• Special downloadable technical exercises for pianists
• Original works by featured composers (BachScholar™ wants to publish and promote YOUR original works!)
• Promotion of CDs and recordings of those whose original works BachScholar™ publishes
• Featured articles on topics pertaining to music learning, creativity & composition
• Piano technique, teaching, and composing tips as well as information on the great composers

The synchronistic blending of BachScholar's three ideals—excellence, innovation, tradition–was the driving force behind Bach's music ministry in the first half of the 18th century, which gives relevance and meaning to the name BachScholar™. The paradox here is that even though Bach stubbornly clung to upholding tradition during a time of rapid change and forward looking "progression" (as in today's world), it is in fact the "old-fashioned" J.S. Bach who stood out as the most innovative composer of his time, offering something for everyone without compromising quality or excellence; hence, BachScholar's name, mission, and purpose.

"Cory Hall played two works of towering artistic content and difficulty with a power and a finish that were startling. Hall was up to it—all over the keyboard, but always conscious of the magic the notes were designed to evoke. It was an impressive performance." (The Sacramento Bee)

Cory Hall (b. 1963) is a classical pianist, composer/arranger, and independent scholar who operates the popular BachScholar™ YouTube Channel, which currently features nearly 400 performance and tutorial videos that receive over 13,000 daily views worldwide. Hall is renowned for his pure tone and virtuoso technique, rapid learning abilities, and prodigious memory (with several hundred memorized piano performances) and records on his vintage 1929 Model L Steinway.

Hall has many interests and has served many capacities including: concert artist (solo and accompanist), private piano teacher, college professor (humanities and music), church organist, independent scholar. He holds music degrees from California State University, Sacramento (B.M. in piano), The Eastman School of Music (M.M. in piano), and The University of Kansas (M.M. in historical musicology, D.M.A. in piano).

In addition to excelling in the traditional classical piano literature, Hall is regarded by many to be one of the world's foremost interpreters of Scott Joplin and classic ragtime music, ca. 1900-1920, which he often livens up and embellishes with his own unique arrangements. Hall has recorded most of Joplin's works on YouTube. As a composer, Hall often combines intriguing blends of diverse styles such as classical, pop, and new age and at other times uses his own unique romantic virtuoso style to create evocative character works, both sacred and secular. These works and more will soon be available for purchase on this website. Hall currently has nine mp3 albums available for download on CD BABY and AMAZON.

Hall's main research interests include tempo and alphanumeric symbolism in the music of J.S. Bach. Still in progress and on the "backburner" for twenty years is his book or theory "Discovering Bach's Secret Tempo Code". The theory uncovers one of Bach's hitherto unknown modus operandi, namely, that Bach planned his tempos (in beats per minute) even before putting pen to paper, which allowed him to calculate the desired number of measures to attain a special kind of "duration ratio" among adjacent movements, such as 1:1, 1:2, 2:3. In short, Hall claims to have figured out virtually all of Bach's intended tempos. For more on this topic, CLICK HERE!

In 2010 after two years of hard work on his BachScholar™ YouTube Channel, Hall began to have visions of a new and exciting kind of publishing company. This company would truly be one the 21st century that takes full advantage of our current online and global world. Disgruntled and disatisfied with the old-fashioned, over-specializing, and exclusivist tendencies of the music publishing world, Hall's imagination eventually began to draft a unique business plan for BachScholar Publishing. As this website and Hall's vision evolve, more information will be provided. However for now, feel free to browse around!