Kelly Hall-Tompkins - Violin
One of New York City’s most in-demand violinists, Kelly Hall-Tompkins’ dynamic career spans solo, chamber, and orchestral performance. Ms. Hall-Tompkins was winner of a 2003 Naumburg International Violin Competition Honorarium Prize and a Concert Artists Guild Career Grant. Ms. Hall-Tompkins has been soloist in all 3 halls at Carnegie Hall: as concertmaster and soloist of the Chamber Orchestra of New York for the debut concert in Zankel Hall in ’07, soloist in Stern Auditorium for a Darfur benefit concert hosted by actress Mia Farrow, and as recitalist in Weill Hall in 2009. She has been soloist with Dallas Symphony, Greenville Symphony, Philharmonic of Uruguay, Western Piedmont Symphony among others.
As recitalist she was also featured at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC, “Performance Today”, Dame Myra Hess in Chicago, WFMT radio, and New York’s WQXR. Released in 2008, and heard regularly on major radio stations around the country, her second CD “In My Own Voice” has been touted by the BBC Music Magazine, American Record Guide and Fanfare Magazine among others with “an enthralling 15 minute performance” and “a tonal mastery, a technical command, and a strength of personality that justify the CD’s title… opulent intensity.” Ms. Hall-Tompkins is a member of the Ritz Chamber Players, featured internationally on BBC/WNYC and Chicago WFMT’s “Jewel Box” Series.
Ms. Hall-Tompkins’ distinguished orchestral career has included extensive touring in the US and internationally with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, over 150 performances with the New York Philharmonic and as first violinist with NJ Symphony. Ms. Hall-Tompkins is founder of charity series ‘Music Kitchen-Food for the Soul’, bringing over 40 concerts to NYC homeless, including Emanuel Ax and over 60 other artists since 2005. Featured in The New York Times, writer Dan Wakin writes, “Just Three blocks from Lincoln Center…The concerts have an air of authenticity and directness that sometimes does not exist in concert halls.”
