Alison Hall, violin
Alison Hall joined the Wintergreen Festival in the “Vienna” summer of 2010. She has been a member of the Richmond Symphony violin section since 2001, and serves as concertmaster for the Oratorio Society of Virginia. She was concertmaster of Ash Lawn Opera (now Charlottesville Opera) from 2002 to 2009.
Before moving to Virginia, Alison was a member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra (CT) and the Riverside Symphonia (NJ), and freelanced with many groups, including Hospital Audiences, Inc. (NYC), which takes recital programs into medical and psych wards and retirement homes.
A private teacher and coach, she has especially enjoyed writing children’s programs for the Afton String Quartet and the Richmond Symphony strings to take into Virginia schools, such as “Playing with Water,” “Playing with Monsters,” “Friendship,” “Marco Polo,” and “What Do Strings Do?”
She holds a B.A. from Yale University and M.M. from the Manhattan School of Music. Her principal teachers have been Burton Kaplan, Kyung Yu, Elżbieta Winnicka, and Vivienne Thomas. She has studied chamber music with Michael Friedman, David Noon, and Kenneth Cooper.
Alison grew up in London and Jersey City, and lives with her husband and four children in Charlottesville.
She plays on an 1899 Gavatelli, sold to her at a discount in 1989 by a kind chamber music coach, after her old violin was stolen during an orthodontic appointment.
