Kelly Hall-Tompkins writes:
I
hope this email finds you continuing to be well and enjoying a healthy
and successful re-entry to more in-person life. If you listen to New
York City's WQXR radio, chances are you might have heard promos for my
upcoming recital as a featured artist of the Artist Propulsion Lab. I
am so excited and honored to perform the first in-person concert back at
the WQXR Greene Space on Tuesday October 19th at 7pm. The concert will
be hosted by my friend Elliott Forrest and will be both in person and
live streamed. The program will feature my characteristically broad and
eclectic repertoire from Debussy to Fiddler, including two pieces
written for me during the pandemic, by Guy Mintus and Ellen Taaffe
Zwilich, and also the premiere of a new arrangement by me! I was
commissioned by the composer/lyricist duo Gail C. Bluestone and Eileen
Sherman to write a violin solo arrangement for th song "My Mother's
Menorah" from their show "The Odd Potato." I am joined in that song by
fellow APL artist, mezzo soprano Kara Dugan, and in the rest of the
program by pianist Craig Ketter, accordionist Joshua Camp,
guitar/mandolin Stephen Benson, and bass Michael Blanco. Click below
for a promo video and here for the event page and tickets.
I'm
also thrilled to be presented in an upcoming concert by the
Indianapolis International Violin Competition at the Madame C.J. Walker
Theater in Indianapolis. I admire both the namesake of the theater and
the prestigious competition and am honored to be a featured artist of
both.
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Music Kitchen Forgotten Voices World Premiere at Carnegie Hall
If
you know anything about me, you know that I like to create unique
projects. Historic, unprecedented and artistically inspiring, the Forgotten Voices project,
is the most exciting project I have ever produced, and I could not be
more thrilled to work with Carnegie Hall, or, as I like to call it, "The
People's House," to bring it to full realization. On behalf of my
organization Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul, we are proud to present the world premiere of Forgotten Voices on March 13th, 2022 and I hope you will buy your ticket to the event. Please check out our new trailer:
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