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IN
MY OWN VOICE JS
BACH, BAKER, GRANT STILL, KREISLER, SAINT-SAËNS, SUK & YSAYE
KELLY
HALL-TOMPKINS
CRAIG
KETTER
piano
ANNA
REINERSMAN harp
For this
recording, Ms. Hall-Tompkins plays a
Guarneri del Gesu 1732 violin "ex
Kaston"
$14.95 ~ MS1278
“Attention
concert presenters!... you'd have a winner in presenting Kelly Hall-Tompkins.
Here is an artist who deserves not just a hearing but fame itself. Right from
the start in the Kreisler, it's clear that Hall-Tompkins is beyond technique.
She has a firm presence and, above all, a grasp of the work's structure. The
Ysaye and Bach are choice examples of her solid grasp of structure and, thus,
her powers of interpretation. In brief, she compels you to listen. [Ethnic
Variations shows] Hall-Tompkins' virtuosity in yet another style. She turns it
into crossover-with-class. The engineering is excellent, and the program notes
well written and to the point. ”
French, American Record Guide ~ September / October 2009
“Kelly
Hall-Tomkins plays Kreisler’s tribute to Eugčne Ysa˙e... with a tonal
mastery, a technical command, and a strength of personality that justify the
CD’s title. With swooping portamentos, dramatic dynamic shifts (as well as
changes in tempo), and crisp articulation...her performance remains worth
hearing. [In Suk’s Love Song] she
generates a similarly opulent intensity and cloaks the opening and ending in a
similarly gauzy veil... the engineers have served the soloist and other
instrumentalists well, allowing just enough reverberation when the violinist is
playing alone, but never so much as to obliterate detail. [In the Chaconne]
Hall- Tomkins manages, at her more relaxed pace, to reveal a great deal of the
work’s splendor... Hall-Tomkins reveals a different side, by turns piquant and
suggestive, in Saint-Saëns’s Fantasie for violin and harp... Hall-Tomkins’s
performance of it demonstrates its timbral and general musical potential... Craig
Ketter provides unobtrusively sympathetic support. Taken as a whole, the recital
represents a significant achievement in stylistic adaptability... Recommended.”
Robert Maxham, Fanfare ~ July / August 2009
“In
My Own Voice includes technically confident and strongly shaped readings of
challenging unaccompanied works by Kreisler and Ysaye as well as the great Bach
Chaconne… Hall-Tompkins combines prettily with harpist Anna Reinersman [in a
delightfully inventive fantasia]…and with pianist Craig Ketter she delivers
sweetly played bonbons [by Suk and William Grant Still].”
BBC Music Magazine ~ May 2009
" 'Chaconne'...is an enthralling fifteen minute performance... Kelly
Hall-Tompkins’ wonderful performance is remarkable... In My Own Voice
contains a wide ranging choice of violin pieces each of which are played
immaculately. Kelly Hall-Tompkins performs the technically demanding Bach and
Ysaye compositions, alongside the beautifully haunting Saint Saens, the lively
Kreisler, and the fascinating Baker variations with equal mastery and remarkable
versatility. The beauty of the artiste, the instrument she graces, and the music
chosen positively radiates from the recording."
Jeff Perkins, BlogCritics ~
April 2009
"Kelly
Hall-Tompkins here offers a debut recital disc that proceeds from
the familiar to the unusual. That's noteworthy in itself... The level of sheer virtuosity associated with
Paganini
is retained in diverting ways, and Hall-Tompkins plays with obvious
enthusiasm... performances of virtuoso standards that are convincing in themselves but that
don't quite fit together. Technically everything's solid...and in her capacity for taking chances on unfamiliar material,
Hall-Tompkins serves notice that she's a young violinist to be watched."
All Music
Guide ~ April 2009
Kelly Hall-Tompkins is
a violinist highly in demand, with a dynamic career that spans solo, chamber and
orchestral appearances. Ms. Hall-Tompkins was the winner of a 2003 Naumburg
International Violin Competition Honorarium Prize as well as a Concert Artists
Guild Career Grant in 1996, leading to numerous solo recitals. In 2007 she was
invited by Mia Farrow and conductor George Matthew to be soloist for a Benefit
for the Victims of Darfur, hosted by Ms. Farrow at Carnegie Hall. Ms.
Hall-Tompkins has appeared as soloist with the Dallas Symphony, Chamber
Orchestra of New York, Greenville Symphony and many other ensembles, and her
recital performances have been featured on the McGraw-Hill Young Artist Showcase
on WQXR and WFMT Chicago. Her solo performances also include the National
Academy of Sciences, Dame Myra Hess Series and at the Peace Center in
Greenville, South Carolina.
Ms. Hall-Tompkins is a member of
the Ritz Chamber Players, which is in residence at Jacksonville's Times Union
Center, and has performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center and Madison Festivals and
featured on NPR, BBC Radio, WNYC and WFMT Chicago. In addition, she has
performed at Bargemusic. Ms. Hall-Tompkins has performed at many major
festivals, including Tanglewood, Aspen, American Conservatory in Fontainebleau,
Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Spoleto Festival and at the New York String
Orchestra Seminar. Ms Hall-Tompkins has also served as grant panelist for The
Massachusetts Cultural Council and Chamber Music America.
Ms. Hall-Tompkins' distinguished
orchestral career has included extensive touring with the Orpheus Chamber
Orchestra, including performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and in
Japan, Singapore and Scotland. She has also performed with the New York
Philharmonic under conductors Masur, Slatkin, Previn, Dutoit, Gergiev and
others. She is the concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of New York and in
1999 joined the First Violin section of the New Jersey Symphony.
In 2005Ms.Hall-Tompkins founded and
now directs Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul, a charity series that brings
chamber music to homeless shelters in New York City. She has presented more than
30 concerts with artists including Emanuel Ax and Albrecht Mayer, and has been
featured in Chamber Music America Magazine, Spirituality and Health Magazine and
the Hallmark Channel. A native of South Carolina, Ms. Hall-Tompkins earned a MM
degree from the Manhattan School of Music under Glenn Dicterow, and served as
concertmaster of the school's orchestras. She earned a BM with honors in violin
performance from the Eastman School, where she won the prestigious Performer's
Certificate Competition.
www.kellyhall-tompkins.com
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Fritz KREISLER (1875-1962)
Recitativo and
Scherzo-Caprice, Op.6
Josef SUK (1874-1935)
Liebeslied
Eugčne YSAźE (1858-1931)
Sonata for Unaccompanied
Violin No.4 in D minor, Op.27, No.3 – Ballade
J.S. BACH (1685-1750)
Partita for
Unaccompanied Violin No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004 – Chaconne
Camille SAINT-SAËNS
(1835-1921)
Fantasy for Violin and
Harp in A major, Op.124
William Grant STILL
(1895-1978)
Summerland
David BAKER, JR. (b.1931)
Ethnic Variations on a
Theme of Paganini
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