First heard in the mid-1970's as countertenor member of such prominent New York early-music ensembles as the Waverly Consort and Pomerium Musices, Gall soon moved to solo roles in Baroque and contemporary opera. His operatic debuts in 1979, in Cavalli's Erismena at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, and in Britten's Death in Venice at the San Francisco Opera, took place in close succession.

 His opera credits outside the United States include principal roles at La Scala, Teatro San Carlo (Naples) and La Fenice in Italy; the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Salle Garnier in France; the Monnaie in Brussels; the Netherlands Opera; the Cologne and Frankfurt Operas in Germany; the Canadian Opera, as well as the Spoleto, Edinburgh, Innsbruck, Halle, Schwetzingen, and Bordeaux Festivals. In the United States he has sung at the San Francisco, Chicago Lyric, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, Dallas, Philadelphia, and Boston Operas, and has made many concert appearances at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, as well as at the Kennedy Center in Washington. He has recorded for CBS, Harmonia Mundi, Erato, Nonesuch, Titanic, and Smithsonian Records, and appears in the title role on the London video of Peter Sellars' celebrated production of Handel's Giulio Cesare.

 Gall, coordinator of Montclair State University's vocal program, is a seasoned teacher of studio voice, having taught previously at Harvard University and at the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University. He has conducted clinics and master classes in both standard repertory and early-music techniques at music schools across the United States. In addition, he is a founding member of the Italian vocal ensemble Il Terzo Suono, which is dedicated to the performance of Italian vocal literature of the classical period; the ensemble has new releases on the Arts and Symphonia labels.

Photos: In role of Medoro in Handel's Orlando at the San Francisco Opera (Photo credits: Richard Termine; Marty Sohl)

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