As a Singer, Composer and lyricist, Hal is a keen advocate of new works which seek to converge multiple art forms into a more singular and immersive style of theatre. He studied at The Guildhall School of Music in London, and at The Juilliard School in New York where he won the Shoshana Foundation Award.

Hal has performed in most of the world’s main opera houses, creating leading roles for new theatrical works, including Nicholas in Tod Machover’s Pulitzer Prize Finalist Death and the Powers (Monte Carlo Opera, Boston’s Majestic Theatre, Chicago Opera, The Dallas Opera), Gerard in Philip Glass’s Les Enfants Terribles (BAM Opera House, USA and European Tours), Charles in Roxanna Panufnik’s The Music Program (Polish National Opera, Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House). Hal has performed in concert at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Centre, The Wigmore Hall, The Santa Fe Opera and at the Kennedy Centre (DC) with Christopher Hogwood and the NSO. Appearances on BBC Radio & Television include: A Portrait of Wodehouse, Loose Ends, In Tune, Elaine Paige on Sunday, BBC Proms.

For The London Climate Change Festival, Hal wrote the title song performed by Danielle De Niese & the ENO Orchestra for the Song For Nature concert broadcast on Sky Arts from London’s Coliseum on World Earth Day.