John Farnsworth Hall

Who was John Farnsworth Hall?

John Farnsworth Hall was an Australian conductor and violinist.

He was a member of the Farmers Trio, a pioneering radio chamber trio, in 1923. The other members were Horace Keats, piano, and John Boatwright, cello.

In 1946, he conducted the first performance by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra of Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 2 in D, with Neville Amadio as soloist.

He was appointed the first resident conductor of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in 1947. During his time there, he introduced the symphonies of Ralph Vaughan Williams to Queensland concert-goers. He made a classic recording of Alfred Hill's piece for narrator and orchestra, Green Water, with the QSO and the speaker Peter Munro in 1954.

Later he was conductor in residence of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.