Heritage and Harmony: Kelly Hall-Tompkins
Winner of a Naumburg International Violin Competition Prize and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, featured in the Smithsonian Museum for African-American History, and as New York Times “New Yorker of the Year,” Hall-Tompkins is a violin soloist entrepreneur appearing with numerous orchestras including Baltimore, Dallas and Oakland, conductors Leonard Slatkin, Keith Lockhart and Michael Morgan, as featured artist in residence with the Cincinnati Symphony and New York City’s WQXR and on Broadway as "Fiddler"/Violin Soloist of the Grammy- and Tony-nominated production of Fiddler on the Roof. As founder of Music Kitchen-Food for the Soul, Hall-Tompkins is a pioneer of social justice, bringing top artists in over 100 concerts coast to coast in homeless shelters and presenting the World Premiere of Forgotten Voices Song Cycle in Association with Carnegie Hall. Hall-Tompkins is also a published author contributor to Music and Human Rights on Routledge Press.
Additional Performance Videos of Kelly Hall-Tompkins:
Headshot by Chris Lee.
Cinematography on music videos by William D. Caballero.
Video courtesy of Brevard Music Festival, Keith Lockhart, conductor.
Heritage and Harmony: Her Art, Her Voice Video Editor: Karl Sonnenberg.
Visit Kelly's website here.