Lifelong “noisemaker” Hall Goff gravitated from boys’ choir to trombone at age 12, absorbing all sorts of recorded sounds and musical styles from Dixieland, bebop, pop vocalists of the early 60′s to early Zappa, Chicago Symphony recordings, and comedy troupe The Firesign Theater. Hall obtained his B.A. from Oberlin and his M.M. at Yale School of Music, where he was mentored by John Swallow and Otto-Werner Mueller.

A former orchestra member in Italy’s Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto and The Macerata Opera Festival, Hall has been a member of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra since 1977, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players since 1979 and the Golden Gate Park Band since 2009. He has also performed with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, the Eastern Brass Quintet, the Wall Street Quintet, and the New York City Ballet Orchestra.

Goff has had the ongoing good fortune to play with many Bay Area ensembles of all sizes, as well as on various recordings and motion picture soundtracks.  He has backed musical stars of opera, jazz, rock, and pop, ranging from The Manhattan Transfer, Ella Fitzgerald and Vic Damone to Glen Campbell, Frank Zappa, Bob Hope, and many others.