Alec Hall

Born in Toronto in 1985, Alec Hall lives and works in New York City as an independent composer. His music is centered on the nature of acoustic materials in the post-Avant-Garde musical landscape. His work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Fromm Foundation, Arts Council Norway, the New York State Council on the Arts, New Music USA, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and Das Land Steiermark. Alec holds a DMA from Columbia University and an MA from UC San Diego.

The Life to Come is a new opera based on the short story written by E.M. Forster in 1922. Described by the author as containing “a great deal of sorrow and passion that I have myself experienced,” it was unable to be published until after his death in 1970 because of its explicit themes. Writing for a sinfonietta-sized Talea Ensemble, the opera recasts Forster’s story as a tale about colonial violence, queerness, and the birth of love, in Forster’s words, “for good or evil.”