About
Priscilla Hallberg
Priscilla Hallberg is a concert violinist and a 27-year veteran of the Boston Pops-Esplanade Orchestra. She has been on more than twenty national and international tours, working with Arthur Fiedler, John Williams and Keith Lockhart.
The recipient of a doctorate in violin performance from Rutgers University, Priscilla holds additional degrees from Boston University and the University of Iowa, and has studied at Juilliard and Indiana University. Her career has taken her all over to teach and play. She has taught at the University of Northern Iowa, Holy Cross College (MA), Murray State University (KY) and Washington State University, and has been the Director of the Central College Community Orchestra in Pella, Iowa, the Garden City (KS) College-Community String Orchestra, and the Academy Orchestra at the Medicine Hat College Conservatory in Alberta, Canada. Among her students are a members of the Hartford and Roanoke Symphonies, teachers at Hartt Conservatory Prep, Boston freelancers, and graduates of Yale, Hartt Conservatory, Princeton, Brandeis, New England Conservatory, KU, Wichita State and Haverford College. Priscilla has been Concertmaster of the Boston Civic and Washington-Idaho Symphonies, Associate Concertmaster of the Sioux City Symphony and Principal in the Midland/Odessa Symphony.
Having moved to Albuquerque in 2017, Priscilla lives, and teaches in the North Valley. She is the Executive Director and Lead Teacher of the String Academy of the Southwest and has founded a concert series called, “Soirée,” which gives monthly chamber music concerts in her home. Last year her children’s series, “Great Music for Young Ears,” performed six concerts for students at Corralis Elementary School. She has done sectional and chamber music coaching for the Albuquerque Youth Symphony and for the Albuquerque Academy, has performed with the Santa Fe Symphony, the New Mexico Philharmonic and the Chatter, has been a featured recitalist on the Southwest Arts Concert Series in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and last year, and again this year, at “Music for the Soul” concert series at Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Edgewood.
Priscilla has been developing a series of video lessons to teach students.
Here are links:
More Videos
Story of start of the Sting Academy
Priscilla Performance: Wieniawski, Polonaise in D
Reviews:
Hallberg’s excellent tone and control, her smoothness of attack and yet fluid lyricism were in evidence throughout the program... The whole approach was elegant and sophisticated and the clarity and imagery of the work had a fine transparent presence. It was wonderful from start to finish. -San Antonio Express News
Her technique was intuitive and facile and her tone was bright and subtly reflective, like moiré silk. Ornamentation was beautifully measured, especially the adagio’s reflective, lingering trills, and the free-wheeling spirit of the work (Mozart’s Concerto in A Major) was effectively communicated. -The San Antonio Light
She had the audience on its feet -Braintree (MA) Forum
An eminently listenable evening -The Berkshire Courier
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