Tammy L. Hall, Music Director

Tammy is pianist, organist, composer, and arranger who began playing piano at age 4 and was accompanying her church choir by age 7. She received a music scholarship to Mills College in Oakland, California. She has since gone on to work with many award-winning cabaret singers, including Etta Jones, Mary Wilson, Lady Mem'fis, Kim Nalley, Denise Perrier, as well as work in rhythm sections for Houston Person, David 'Fathead' Newman, trumpeter Marcus Belgrave and the Bay Area's own Montclair Women's Big Band. After living two years in Brussels, she formed the ensemble "Touche Différente" and performed throughout Europe. Tammy returned to San Francisco and has worked with Berkeley's Jazz School's Jazz Camp for Girls, the Stanford Jazz Workshop, and the Oakland Public Conservatory. She is also the accompanist for the Inner Light Ministries Choir in Soquel, CA. Some of her original music can be heard in the John Korty documentary, "Miracle In A Box: A Piano Reborn."