Chamber Music


Kelly Hall-Tompkins


Jay Lee








SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 at 3 pm | $25 Buy Tickets
Home of David Lewis and Anne Ackerley
407 West 246th Street | $25 includes an intermission reception

KELLY HALL-TOMPKINS, Violin
JAY LEE, Piano*

Francisca Mendoza, violin              Mitchell Kriegler, clarinet
Sally Shumway, viola                     William Scribner, bassoon
Bruce Wang, cello                           Sharon Moe, French horn
Theresa Norris, flute

Chopin - Ballade in G minor, Op. 23
Ysaÿe - Ballade (Sonata No. 3 for solo violin, "George Enescu")
Rachmaninoff - Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 No. 5

INTERMISSION

Beethoven - Sonata in D minor, Op. 31 No.2 - First movement
Hofmann - Octet


One of New York's most in-demand violinists, Kelly Hall-Tompkins has a dynamic career spanning solo, chamber and orchestral performance. Winner of a 2003 Naumburg International Violin Competition Honorarium Prize as well as a Concert Artists Guild Career Grant in 1996, Ms. Hall-Tompkins was a recent soloist at Carnegie Hall for a Benefit for the Victims of Darfur in 2007. She has performed as soloist with the Dallas Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of New York, Philharmonic of Uruguay and Greenville Symphony, and is currently concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of New York and a member of the New Jersey Symphony. Solo performances have included concerts at Weill Hall in New York, National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC and Dame Myra Hess Series on WFMT Radio in Chicago. Ms Hall-Tompkins has toured with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and has performed with the New York Philharmonic under such conductors as Kurt Masur, Charles Dutoit and Valery Gergiev. She is a member of the Florida-based Ritz Chamber Players, including concerts in residence at Jacksonville's Times Union Center for the Performing Arts and New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center's Allen Room, and in 2002 released her debut CD featuring works by Kodaly, Brahms and Ravel, followed by another in 2008 entitled "In My Own Voice". A passionate chamber musician and humanitarian, Ms. Hall-Tompkins founded in 2005 and directs a charity series called Music Kitchen-Food for the Soul, bringing chamber music performances to New York homeless shelters, and has been featured in Chamber Music America Magazine, Spirituality and Health Magazine and on Columbia University Radio and cable's Hallmark Channel. A native of Greenville, SC, Kelly began her violin studies at age nine, and earned a Bachelor of Music degree with honors in performance from the Eastman School of Music, as a student of Charles Castleman, and a Master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music under the mentorship of New York Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow.

Pianist Jay Lee, a Co-Winner of the BAE 2011 Young Bronx Artist Contest, is a ninth grader at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH. He began his studies at age five, and is a student of Nina Svetlanova at the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College Division. Jay received 2nd place award for the 2011 Summit Music Festival Concerto Competition in Purchase, NY. As a 2009 first prize winner of Manhattan's Concerto Competition, he performed as soloist with the MSM Repertory Orchestra. Jay also received the Manhattan School of Music Parents' Association Award in both 2007 and 2008, and has twice been awarded the Ralph Zola Memorial Piano Scholarship. In 2008 Jay performed a solo recital at Miller Hall at the Manhattan School, and that year also performed at the Head Start Sponsoring Board Council Meet and Greet at Mutual of America Building in New York. Jay feels music is his constant companion, and adheres to the quote of Plato - "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness and life to everything.”




*2011 Bingham Award Co-Winner, BAE Young Bronx Artist Contest