Born in Portsmouth, Steve Hall moved to the East Midlands in 1979 to study chemistry at Loughborough University. After graduating, he applied for jobs all over the country, but ended up just down the road in Leicester working as an analytical chemist for what was then East Midlands Gas. Despite changes to it's name, Steve is still there, these days working as a safety & environmental advisor. The job is quite varied, and a small part of it involves taking noise measurements - slightly ironic considering that Steve's main interest outside work involves making noise!

Steve took up the violin at the age of ten, having found his instrument - a family heirloom - under his grandfather's bed in Germany, where it had lain untouched for about 30 years. Music lovers would probably rather it had stayed there, but Steve carried on regardless and started lessons, evidently intent on becoming the 'grey' sheep of the family - his parents are both singers!
Steve joined the Charnwood Orchestra in January 1986. Four years later he found himself on the Orchestra Committee, and four years after that somehow became Chairman. He has spent the last 12 years perfecting the art of letting the rest of the Committee do all the work.

Steve is a also a member of the Bardi Orchestra, where he is also Treasurer. (Will he never learn?) Like most string players, he is regularly asked to 'help out' other local and not-so-local Orchestras and will often be found lurking somewhere in the violin sections of orchestras from Loughborough to Boston - Lincs. not Mass!

Next year will see Steve's 20th anniversary with the Charnwood Orchestra. Instead of buying everyone a post-rehearsal drink in the Quorndon Fox, he will instead be marking the milestone by skiving off a couple of rehearsals to indulge his other 'hobby' - travel.There is a common theme to many of Steve's favourite destinations - sub-zero temperatures with an abundance of snow and ice - which causes many fellow members of the Orchestra to question his sanity. Ever the optimist, he remains hopeful that he will one day be able to combine both his interests when the Iceland Symphony Orchestra finally realises that they really do need a 10th-rate violinist in their ranks.