The Dana Hall Trio featuring Aaron Goldberg and Clark Sommers

Saturday, September 27

TIME: 3:30pm-4:30pm

VENUE: Wagner Stage. Midway Plaisance at South woodlawn Ave.

Dana Hall

Dana Hall has been an important musician on the international music scene since 1992, after leaving aerospace engineering for a life in music. He has teaching and performance credits on six continents and concert, club, and festival experience throughout Africa, Europe, and Asia as both a bandleader and with such luminaries as Branford Marsalis, Chick Corea, Horace Silver, Ray Charles, Benny Golson, Betty Carter, and Maria Schneider, among others. Hall is a 2019 Camargo Foundation Fellow in Composition. His multidisciplinary work commemorating the 75th anniversary of the publication of Richard Wright’s Native Son, The Hypocrisy of Justice: Sights and Sounds from the Black Metropolis, premiered to critical acclaim on the stage of Chicago’s renowned Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center. Hall’s most recent commission, premiering in May 2024, is an orchestral work memorializing the 2015 and 2022 anti-black mass shootings at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina and Tops Friendly Markets in Buffalo, New York.

Mr. Hall is a Professor of Music and the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at DePaul University. He has also served as a Visiting Professor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. His scholarship is principally concerned with issues of ethnicity, identity, and temporality; popular musics of the world; music as protest and resistance; and musics of both the African continent and the African Diaspora. His dissertation is a historical ethnography of Philly Soul during the Black Power Movement.

The musicians:

Aaron Goldberg - piano

Clark Sommers - bass

Dana Hall - drums