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Professor Emeritus, Jazz; Instructor
hallahrf@jmu.edu
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Jazz pianist Bob Hallahan has performed and taught in a variety of venues and institutions around the globe, including at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, on concert tours of Russia and China, and in numerous jazz clubs wuch as Washington, D.C.'s Blues Alley. The Jazz Standard in New York, and Nardis in Istanbul. He has also been heard with such internationally recognized jazz artists as Joe Henderson, Clark Terry, Sheila Jordan and Anita O'Day. Appearing on over twenty recordings, he leads a trio on his most recent release, Here.

An associate professor in the Jazz Studies Program of the School of Music at James Madison University from 2010 to 2022 and an adjunct faculty member there since 2024, Bob previously taught for several decades at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia. In 1990 he was artist-in-residence for a semester at Vermont's Middlebury College, and since 1997 has taught every summer at Interplay Jazz Camp in New England.

Profile photo by Peter McElhinney.

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