Tom Hall was appointed Music Director Emeritus of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society in 2017. after serving for 35 years as music director. Tom Hall joined the WYPR staff as the Host of Choral Arts Classics in 2003. After 10 years as the Culture Editor and then host of Maryland Morning, in September, 2016, Tom became the host of Midday, the highly rated news and public policy program that features interviews with elected officials, community leaders, and thought provoking authors, artists, researchers, journalists, and scholars from around the world.
Tom is invited frequently to speak to professional and community organizations, including the Oregon Bach Festival, the American Choral Directors Association, Chorus America, the College Endowment Association, the Baltimore Broadcaster’s Coalition, The Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute, the Johns Hopkins Community Conversations Series, and the Creative Alliance. He has moderated panels and given presentations at the Baltimore City Lit Festival, the Baltimore Book Festival, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, the University of Maryland, the Enoch Pratt Library, and MICA. He has also moderated Mayoral Debates, panels at Light City in Baltimore, and at the Stevenson University Speakers Series.
He appears each year as the moderator of the Rosenberg-Blaustein Distinguished Artist Recital Series at Goucher College. His publications include articles in The Baltimore Sun, Style Magazine, and Baltimore Magazine, as well as many scholarly music journals, and he is the co-author of "The Bach Passions in Our Time: Contending with the Legacy of Antisemitism," published on-line by the Institute for Islamic Christian and Jewish Studies.
A longtime radio host of "Maryland Morning" on WYPR, Tom now host of "In the Bromo," "What Are You Reading?" and "Midday" on that station. He has also hosted WYPR/MD Film Festival Spotlight Series. He received an Emmy Award In 2006 for the "Christmas with Choral Arts" special that aired on WMAR television, the ABC affiliate in Maryland, for 21 years. He has been a guest co-host of Maryland Public Television’s Art Works, and in 2007, he was named “Best New Broadcast Journalist” by the Maryland Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2009, the Baltimore City Paper named him "Best Local Radio Personality." In 2016,and 2017, he was recognized as "Best Talk Show Host" in the Baltimore Magazine Reader's Poll.