The O'Shaughnessy Presents

Katie Leadership Impact Women of Color Leadership Series: Kelly Hall-Tompkins

Name: Katie Leadership Impact Women of Color Leadership Series: Kelly Hall-Tompkins
Start: 2026-02-27T19:00:00-0600
Location: The O’Shaughnessy at St. Catherine University

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Friday, February 27

Show: 7 pm // Doors: 6:30 pm

$17.75 to $35.75

ABOUT THE SHOW:

Katie Leadership Impact is proud to present internationally acclaimed violinist and social changemaker Kelly Hall-Tompkins. Working at the intersection of music and social justice, Tompkins brings her electrifying artistry and powerful voice for equity together in concert, The Fiddler Expanding Tradition, and a conversation about her non-profit organization Music Kitchen – Food for the Soul.

The Katie Leadership Impact Women of Color Leadership Series showcases high-profile leaders, sharing their stories, talents, and insights, and connecting students with role models who embody the promise of meaningful global change. Presented through generous support by The Manitou Fund.

TICKET INFO:

The ticket prices on this page reflect the face value price + $2.75 per ticket online Etix fee.

Tickets are $15 – $33 if booked directly through the Ticket Office in person or by phone at: 651-690-6700.

Tickets are free for St. Kate’s students, faculty and staff.

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JOIN US FOR EMPTY BOWLS SOUP SOCIAL

Join us for a pre-show Empty Bowls soup social from 4:30 – 6 p.m. in The O’Shaughnessy’s lobby, a collaboration with the St. Kate’s Clay Club. All are welcome to share a meal of homemade soup out of handmade bowls created by St. Kate’s students and the broader community. All diners are invited to make a donation to the St. Kate’s/CSJ Food Access Hub.

Kelly Hall-Tompkins

Winner of a Naumburg International Violin Competition Prize and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, featured in the Smithsonian Museum for African-American History, and as New York Times “New Yorker of the Year,” Ms. Hall-Tompkins is a violin soloist entrepreneur appearing with numerous orchestras including St. Louis, Baltimore, Dallas and Oakland, conductors Leonard Slatkin, Keith Lockhart and Michael Morgan.

Ms. Hall-Tompkins has been a featured artist in residence with the Cincinnati Symphony and New York City’s WQXR and on Broadway as "Fiddler"/Violin Soloist of the Grammy and Tony-nominated production of Fiddler on the Roof.

A collaboration with 5-time Emmy-winning composer Jeff Beal features a new violin concerto, Body in Motion, written for her. The collaboration also features celebrated conductor Leonard Slatkin; Ms. Hall-Tompkins and Maestro Slatkin performed the Sold-Out world premiere with the St. Louis Symphony to critical acclaim: “The world premiere was a treat even by the rarified standards of world premieres…masterful… “ Kelly Hall-Tompkins and Maestro Slatkin also gave the European premiere with the Orquesta of Gran Canaria, Spain and recorded the concerto with the LA Chamber Orchestra.

As the first soloist to perform the Wynton Marsalis Violin Concerto after the dedicatée, Kelly Hall-Tompkins has been a champion of the work in 25 performances so far, including the Lucerne Festival Premiere in Switzerland and a tour across the Netherlands. The first American artist to perform in China after the pandemic, Ms. Hall-Tompkins received a Chinese “Rare Talent Visa” to perform as soloist with the Shanghai Symphony.

As founder of Music Kitchen-Food for the Soul, Kelly Hall-Tompkins is a pioneer of social justice, bringing top artists in over 100 concerts coast to coast in homeless shelters and presenting the World Premiere of Forgotten Voices Song Cycle in Association with Carnegie Hall. Ms. Hall-Tompkins is also a published author and contributor to Music and Human Rights on Routledge Press.

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