Kelly Hall-Tompkins

Hall-Tompkins has performed at many venues with many different symphonies in her career as a violinist.[1][3][5][6] She has appeared as a co-soloist in Carnegie Hall with Glenn Dicterow and conductor Leonard Slatkin, and in London at Queen Elizabeth Hall, at Lincoln Center.[1][5][3][6] She has performed with Dallas, Jacksonville, and Oakland Symphonies. She has given recitals in Paris, New York, Toronto, Washington, Chicago, and Santa Fe as well as the Tanglewood Festival and the Ravinia festival.[1][5][3][6] Outside the United States, she has also performed in France, Germany, and Italy."[1][5] In 2015 and 2016, she won performed as The Fiddler in the 50th anniversary Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof.[1][2][3][6] This led to the release of her CD "The Fiddler Expanding Tradition" in 2018, her second CD.[6] The first, titled "In My Own Voice - Music for Violin and Piano with Harp" was released in 2008.[6][4] After playing the role of "the fiddler" in the revival of Fiddler on the Roof, Tompkins was inspired to write and release the first ever Fiddler solo album, which would be titled The Fiddler: Expanding Tradition.[8] In 2020, Tompkins was selected for the first cohort of WQXR's Artist propulsion lab, a grant program that supports early and mid-career musicians in New York City.[8][5]

Hall-Tompkins founded Music Kitchen — Food for the Soul in 2005.[2][5][7][9] Music Kitchen is a program that lifts the spirits of homeless New Yorkers through live classical music recitals."[2][7][9] By 2020, Music Kitchen had brought top artists to perform in over 100 concerts in various homeless shelters throughout the United States.[5][6]