Cory Hall has since 1999 served as an Adjunct Instructor at St. Petersburg College in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, where he teaches western and non-western humanities (world civilization) courses. Other courses taught in the past include private piano and music appreciation, although he presently teaches exclusively humanities courses. Since 2006, Hall has also served as Adjunct Professor of Music at Eckerd College, in St. Petersburg, where he teaches private piano, music history and theory, and accompanies the concert choir.

In addition to his academic positions, Hall has since 2001 served as organist at Anona United Methodist Church, in Largo, Florida, and performs as harpsichordist with the St. Petersburg Baroque Ensemble, a fresh and exciting group consisting of performers from the Tampa Bay area in Florida. Hall is also in demand as an adjudicator and has adjudicated collegiate piano competitions for the Florida State Music Teachers Association and artist competitions for the Florida Orchestra.

As a scholar, Dr. Hall's main research interests have been tempo and alphanumeric symbolism in Bach's music. He has published articles and reviews on various Bach topics in Clavier, American Music Teacher, and The Diapason, and has presented papers and lecture-performances for the American Musicological Society, College Music Society, and Florida State Music Teachers Association. Hall also has extensive experience as a renaissance and baroque dance accompanist, which has served as a virtual laboratory in which his present tempo theory could be put into practice, tested, and validated. His book in progress, “Breaking the Bach Tempo Code”, breaks new ground in the fields of scholarship and performance, employing a new and innovative scientific methodology never before encountered in the disciplines of music theory or historical musicology.

Not only is Hall an iconoclastic and somewhat of a “renegade” independent scholar (upon first encountering Hall's theory of tempo in Bach's music, the late Professor J. Bunker Clark called him “the bad boy of musicology”), but he is also a self-taught web designer and organist. Before designing this web site, Hall had absolutely no experience in any area of computer languages and programming; however, within just six months, he learned HTML and web design entirely on his own and managed to fashion this 70-page web site. Similarly, before his current post as organist at Anona UMC, Hall had absolutely no experience in organ performance; however, within as little as one year, he learned pedaling and registration entirely on his own and learned to play the organ as well as many seasoned organists.

Cory Hall is a virtuoso pianist who has performed for over thirty years as a soloist, accompanist, and chamber musician, and has garnered fabulous reviews. For example, consider the following review that describes a gala performance in which Hall performed the Bach-Busoni Chaconne followed by Ravel's Scarbo: “Hall performed two works of towering artistic content and difficulty with a power and a finish that were startling......Hall was all over the keyboard, but always conscious of the magic the notes were designed to evoke. It was an impressive performance” (The Sacramento Bee). Hall was the first pianist to record Alban Berg's complete Jugendlieder, a collection of fifty-three early songs, with soprano Wendy Zaro and bass-baritone John Stephens. (To purchase this recording, please follow this link!)

Since 1999, Cory Hall has been a featured performer in the Piano Concert Series at St. Petersburg College, whose demanding programs and innovative programming have made him a favorite among audiences. Please click here to see some sample programs, in PDF format, from Hall's concerts in St. Petersburg College's Piano Concert Series!

Cory Hall earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano and Master of Music in Musicology from the University of Kansas in 1994, where he was awarded the prestigious Graduate Honors Fellowship, and his main professors were Richard Reber (piano) and the late J. Bunker Clark (musicology). His doctoral thesis in piano was a lecture-recital on György Ligeti's Etudes for Piano, book 1. Prior to graduate studies at the University of Kansas, Hall taught piano for three years (1988-91) at Musikschule Wilhelmshöhe, a music school near Kassel, Germany. Prior to his post in Germany, Hall earned a Master of Music in Piano from the Eastman School of Music in 1988, where he was a student of David Burge. Prior to his studies at Eastman, Hall earned a Bachelor of Music in Piano from California State University, Sacramento in 1985, where his main piano professors were the late Gene Savage and Thomas Gentry. Hall has participated in master classes of several prestigious performers and pedagogues, including Abbey Simon, Claude Frank, John Perry, Nelita True, and Daniel Pollack.

Cory Hall has performed much of Bach's solo keyboard music to enthusiastic audiences (he prefers a modern grand piano over harpsichord), which has included complete performances of the Inventions and Sinfonias, French Suites, Partitas, The Well-Tempered Clavier (book 1), and the Goldberg Variations. In addition to his special interest in the music of J.S. Bach, Cory Hall also regularly champions lesser-known piano music and composers, some of his recent interests being the music of John Bull, Johann N. Hummel, and the fascinating Erwin Schulhoff. Hall has been a long-time and avid performer of ragtime as well, and counts Scott Joplin, Zez Confrey, and William Bolcom as three of his favorite composers.

Cory Hall is a California native where the city of Davis was his hometown, and currently resides in Gulfport, Florida.