Kelly Hall-Tompkins

Compelling confidence and control
Instrumentalists — Violin

Manager: Mark Z. Alpert
Management Territory: Worldwide

Attention concert presenters!...Here is an artist who deserves not just a hearing but fame itself...Right from the start in the Kreisler (for violin alone), it's clear that Hall-Tompkins is beyond technique. She has a firm presence and... she leans into phrases, giving them plenty of breathing room...The introduction to Sonata 3 is a long, anguished sigh with recitative-like rubato and long pauses, expressively wrought with rich tone colors as it works up to an intense flowing finale... In brief, she compels you to listen. —American Record Guide

Kelly Hall-Tompkins plays Kreisler's tribute to Eugène Ysaÿe...with a tonal mastery, a technical command, and a strength of personality that justify the CD's title "In My Own Voice"... Saint-Saëns's piece, and Hall-Tompkins's performance of it, demonstrates its timbral and general musical potential... Taken as a whole, the recital represents a significant achievement in stylistic adaptability...Recommended. —Fanfare Magazine

Hall-Tompkins plays with obvious enthusiasm... everything's solid...and in her capacity for taking chances on unfamiliar material, Hall-Tompkins serves notice that she's a young violinist to be watched —AllMusic.com

About

One of New York City’s most in-demand violinists, Kelly Hall-Tompkins’ dynamic career spans solo, chamber, and orchestral performance. Ms. Hall-Tompkins joined the roster of Columbia Artists Management in 2010 and is a major new collaborator with violinist/composer Mark O’Connor in his Double Violin Concerto and as first violinist of the O’Connor String Quartet. Ms. Hall-Tompkins is winner of a 2003 Naumburg International Violin Competition Honorarium Prize, Concert Artists Guild Career Grant, and has been soloist with Jacksonville, Dallas, Greenville Symphonies, Chamber Orchestra . . . of New York, and Evansville Philharmonic, among others. Ms. Hall-Tompkins has appeared on the Ravinia Rising Stars Series and the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago and has been featured on WQXR Soundcheck with Jon Schaeffer, BBC World Service, and WFMT Jewel Box Series and WXXI Backstage Pass with Julia Figueras; Ms. Hall-Tompkins recent CD “In My Own Voice” was received with critical acclaim in many major publications such as Fanfare Magazine: “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 Florida-based Ritz Chamber Players and has performed extensively with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and is a member of the NJ Symphony. Ms. Hall-Tompkins is founder of charity series ‘Music Kitchen-Food for the Soul’, bringing over 60 concerts to NYC homeless, including Emanuel Ax and over 100 other artists since 2005. Featured in The New York Times, 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.”

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