Now based in New York City, the Powers and Hall saxophone/organ duo was founded in 2001 at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.  Powers and Hall have performed throughout the U.S. and abroad, appearing at such diverse locales as Queen's College Oxford, Oklahoma City University, the Huntington Church Music Festival in Ontario, and Grenada.  The duo is featured on the compact disc In Perfect Peace: A Brooklyn Pastorale, which features an historic 1880 Odell pipe organ.  Powers and Hall are interested in original compositions for saxophone and organ, transcriptions, and arrangements of organ works for saxophone and organ.  Mr. Powers' primary teachers have included Eugene Rousseau, Otis Murphy, and Thomas Walsh.  Dr. Hall earned a doctorate in music from the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University.  His teachers have included Marilyn Keiser and David Schrader.  He is Dean of the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and a Fellow of the Guild, as well as the author of a biography on the American organist Calvin Hampton.