JANET HALL studied at the Birmingham School of Music (now the Birmingham Conservatoire) with James Coles and Josef Aronoff. She is an established freelance violinist working regularly with Opera North and its orchestral counterpart, the English Northern Philharmonia, and with the East of England Orchestra. She leads the Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra and the Heart of England Orchestra and teaches at Nottingham University where she also leads the University Philharmonia and acts as string coach.