After being awarded First Prize in the Louise D. McMahon International Music Competition, Doris gave her New York debut, performing the world premiere of John Carbon's "Rhapsody For Clarinet and Orchestra," at Avery Fischer Hall, Lincoln Center, with Gerard Schwarz and the New York Chamber Symphony. About the performance, Allan Kozinn of The New York Times wrote, "... a demandingly agile clarinet line, played with both virtuosity and nuance by Doris J. Hall-Gulati, wove its way through a variegated orchestra fabric." Ms. Hall-Gulati made her Carnegie (Weill) Hall debut playing with the Alaria Chamber Ensemble, and her Merkin Hall debut, premiering Thea Musgrave's "Ring Out Wild Bells," with the Philadelphia Trio.

Doris can be heard on the MMC, Naxos and New World record labels. About the recent Naxos recording of Hansen's "Nymphs and Satyr Ballet Suite," Paul Cook of classicstoday.com, was moved to say, "I was particularly taken (by) Doris Hall-Gulati on the clarinet."

An advocate for "new and old" music, Doris has performed in music festivals and on multiple series as soloist and chamber musician, throughout the US as well as China and Russia. She toured the Silk Road with the International Music Festival in West China in July 2007, touring six cities as performer and teacher. Due to this latest trip, Doris was invited to serve as a Visiting Professor at the Lanzhou Multicultural University. She hopes to return to China in 2011.

Doris also performs annually with Beyond Ourselves, a group of chamber musicians who perform to help raise monies for MCC (Mennonite Central Committee) peace-keeping efforts around the world. Doris finds it very important to raise awareness about the millions of people who are much less fortunate.

Doris earned her Bachelor's degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and she received a Masters in Music studying on a graduate fellowship from the University of Michigan. Doris is a Phi Kappa Lambda. Her principal instructors have been Ignatius Gennusa, Loren Kitt, and Fred Ormand, and she was introduced to chamber music by Karen Tuttle, whom Doris greatly admired.

Ms. Hall-Gulati is Principal Clarinet in The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra also based in Philadelphia, PA. She also served as Bass Clarinetist in The Opera Company of Philadelphia for 15 years, and for 10 years as Principal Clarinetist of the Berkshire Opera Festival. Most recently Dors became an Artist in Residence at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.

recordings

VARIOUS: Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society 10 (CD Baby)
CARBON: Music of John Carbon (MMC Recordings)
HANSON: Concerto for Organ, Harp and Strings / Nymph and Satyr (NAXOS)

reviews

Allan Kozinn, New York Times 11/21/97
Paul Griffiths, New York Times 7/20/98
Richard Dyer, Boston Globe 7/3/00
Dan Lewis, allmusic.com 9/7/06
Paul Cook (of) classicstoday.com 10/2006

last updated 3/2010