Saturday, May 15, 2010

Violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins Signs With Columbia Artists Management


[In my own voice; Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin; MSR Classics MS 1278]

Kelly Hall-Tompkins
On May 26, 2010, violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins will join cellist Amy Sue Barston at Noon for a Music Kitchen performance of the Brahms Sextet in G Major at the Church of the Apostle in New York City. Kelly Hall-Tompkins founded the "Music Kitchen: Food for the Soul" series, which has persuaded journalists in television, radio and print media to give voice to the cultural and aesthetic needs of people served by homeless shelters and soup kitchens.

CAMI.com
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
Kelly Hall-Tompkins is one of New York City’s most in-demand violinists, whose dynamic career spans solo, chamber, and orchestral performance. Ms. Hall-Tompkins was winner of a 2003 Naumburg International Violin Competition Honorarium Prize as well as a Concert Artists Guild Career Grant in 1996, leading to numerous solo recitals in New York and the surrounding area. In the winter of 2007, Ms. Hall-Tompkins was invited by actress Mia Farrow and conductor George Matthew to be soloist in Carnegie Hall for a Benefit for the Victims of Darfur. . .





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