Originally from St. Paul, MN, Crystal Stohr Hall currently resides in Chicago, IL, where she is an active freelance musician, appearing with many area orchestras, including the Illinois Symphony, the Northwest Indiana Symphony, the Illinois Philharmonic, the New Philharmonic, and the Rockford Symphony. Recent guest appearances have also included the Louisiana Philharmonic and the Florida West Coast Symphony. She earned degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Texas at Austin. Her teachers include James Caldwell, Rebecca Henderson, Richard Killmer, and Basil Reeve. In addition to playing, Crystal maintains a large private teaching studio and sells professional oboe reeds. When Crystal is not feverishly scraping reeds, she spends her time playing with her cats Jack and Agatha or besting her husband in Scrabble.