Oakland Symphony to Feature Broadway's Kelly Hall-Tompkins in Violin Concerto and More, Today

The Oakland Symphony, Michael Morgan Music Director and conductor, will be joined by guest violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins-currently on Broadway as the Fiddler in Fiddler on the Roof-- and members of its acclaimed Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra for Lost Romantic Symphonies Friday, November 18, at 8 pm at the Paramount Theatre. The concert will feature Hall-Tompkins performing the U.S. premiere of Siegfried Matthus' new violin concerto, Dream of a Summer Night, along with John Williams' Theme from Schindler's List and Fiddler on the Roof. The program also includes Joachim Raff's rarely performed Symphony No. 3, and the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra, back from its Cuban Tour, will join the Symphony for Gershwin's Cuban Overture. The concert will be preceded by a talk by John Kendall-Bailey at 7 pm that is free to ticket holders and the entire evening is sponsored by The Grubb Company. Tickets are priced $25-$80 and may be purchased at www.oaklandsymphony.org or by calling 510-444-0802.

About Kelly Hall-Tompkins

Currently the "Fiddler," violin soloist, for the Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof and winner of a Sphinx Foundation award, Kelly Hall-Tompkins has been featured as soloist in over 100 Broadway performances to date, plus a new cast album alongside a bonus track by Itzhak Perlman as she forges a dynamic career as a soloist and chamber musician. Winner of a Naumburg International Violin Competition Honorarium Prize as well as a Concert Artists Guild Career Grant, Ms. Hall-Tompkins has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Dallas Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Tulsa Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of New York, and Philharmonic of Uruguay, in addition to numerous concerts and recitals in cities including New York, Washington, Cleveland, Toronto, Chicago, Baltimore, and Greenville, South Carolina, and at festivals in France, Germany and Italy. Ms. Hall-Tompkins has been the subject on NBC's Today Show with Harry Smith, NBC 4 New York with Janice Huff, WWFM radio and Strings Magazine among numerous other outlets for her role in Fiddler. A significant collaborating partner with violinist/composer Mark O'Connor, Ms. Hall-Tompkins has performed his Double Violin Concerto with O'Connor in concerts across the United States. As a passionate chamber musician, Ms. Hall-Tompkins is first violinist of the O'Connor String Quartet, which has performed concerts nationally, including Tanglewood, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Lincoln Center's Great Performer's Circle, and a member of the Florida-based Ritz Chamber Players, including concerts in residence at Jacksonville's Times Union Center for the Performing Arts, the Ravinia Festival's "Rising Stars Series," New York at Lincoln Center's Allen Room, and in Baltimore in collaboration with BSO concertmaster and string principals, along with many other venues. She has performed at the Garth Newel Music Center, Chamber Music South Dakota, New York City's Bargemusic, live on WNYC's "Soundcheck", at Miami's Deering Estate Series and for the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild

TICKETS AND INFO: $25-$80 and may be purchased at www.oaklandsymphony.org or by calling 510-444-0802.

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