For over two decades, he has worn multiple hats in the city’s cultural landscape, as composer, director, curator, producer, performer, writer, and educator. At the heart of his practice is the voice, which he approaches as an instrument of desire, ancestry, politics, spirit, and variance.
He has composed music for award-winning narratives of Bill T. Jones, Shana Moulton, Miguel Gutierrez, and Ishmael Houston-Jones and has presented unique projects at the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, New Museum, the Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, PERFORMA/Town Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Hayden Planetarium, Roulette, ISSUE Project Room, New York Live Arts, Danspace, Joe’s Pub, and many other independent and commercial spaces. He has received two New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” awards and a Creative Capital grant. As an “invaluable” (New Yorker) cultural producer, Hallett engages with archive as a tool to build community, exemplified by the the annual NYC concert of Terry Riley’s In C, ongoing since 2005, as Music Director for a decade-long revival of the Joshua Light Show, and as curator of live art at the NYC AIDS Memorial. He currently teaches at Eugene Lang College at The New School and the School for Visual Arts.
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