Join us for a violin masterclass with Kelly Hall-Tompkins, on faculty at Manhattan School of Music. This event is free and open to the public.

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,” Ms. Hall-Tompkins is a violin soloist entrepreneur appearing with numerous orchestras including St. Louis, 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. A collaboration with 5-time Emmy-winning composer Jeff Beal features a new violin concerto, Body in Motion, written for her. The collaboration also features celebrated conductor Leonard Slatkin; Ms. Hall-Tompkins and Maestro Slatkin performed the Sold-Out world premiere with the St. Louis Symphony to critical acclaim: “The world premiere was a treat even by the rarified standards of world premieres…masterful… “ Kelly Hall-Tompkins and Maestro Slatkin also gave the European premiere with the Orquesta of Gran Canaria, Spain this spring. As the first soloist to perform the Wynton Marsalis Violin Concerto after the dedicatée, Kelly Hall-Tompkins has been a champion of the work in 25 performances so far, including the Lucerne Festival Premiere in Switzerland and a tour across the Netherlands. The first American artist to perform in China after the pandemic, Ms. Hall-Tompkins received a Chinese “Rare Talent Visa” to perform as soloist with the Shanghai Symphony. As founder of Music Kitchen-Food for the Soul, Kelly 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. Ms. Hall-Tompkins is also a published author contributor to Music and Human Rights on Routledge Press.