Gallia Kastner
USA
Gallia Kastner is a 16 year old merit scholarship student of
The Susan and Richard Kiphart Academy Fellowship. She studies with Almita and
Roland Vamos at The Music Institute of Chicago. She commenced her private
violin study at five and a half with Betty Haag-Kuhnke. In the course of her
accomplishments, Gallia has won numerous competitions locally, nationally, and
internationally both as a soloist and a chamber musician. She is the winner of
the 2013 Blount Slawson National Concerto Competition in Montgomery, Alabama,
The Ars Viva Concerto/Aria Competition, The 2012 Triennial Johansen
International Competition in Washington DC, the 2012 Skokie Valley Concerto
Competition, the Society of American Musicians Competition, the overall open
division at the Walgreens National Concerto Competition, the Sejong Cultural
Society, and The Chinese Fine Arts Society.
Recently she was awarded the 2013 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Scholarship and The Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation Scholarship from The Musicians Club of Women in Chicago.
An avid chamber musician, Gallia is a member of the Lumiere String Quartet that won first place at the 2013 Midwest Young Artist Chamber Music Competition and SAM Jules M. Laser Chamber Competition. Gallia’s broadcast performances include appearances on WFMT 98.7/Introductions, WTTW Channel 11,WGN Channel 9, and a Today’s Show appearance with Rachel Barton Pine. Some of Gallia’s performances with orchestras include The Lake Forest Symphony Orchestra, The Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra, Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra in Pennsylvania, the Highland Park Strings, the North Shore Chamber Orchestra, the Midwest Young Artist Orchestra, and she will solo with The Montgomery Symphony Orchestra in April. other stage appearances include concerts in Millenium Park, Ravinia, Lincoln Center, Kloster Schontal and Schwabish Hall Kultursiftung in Germany.
She has had the privilege to take master classes with Robert Lipsett, Rachel Barton Pine, Vadim Gluzman, Arkady Fomin, Joseph Silverstein, Ida Kavafian, IIya Kaler, Milan Vitek, Ivry Gitlis, and Sherry Kloss.
She is a sophomore at John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, IL and participates in the school orchestra and the youth music ministry at St James Parish, as a choir member and instrumentalist.
Gallia performs on a copy of the “Ex-Soldat” Guarneri del Gesu, by Peter Seman, 2008, on generous loan from Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation.
Recently she was awarded the 2013 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Scholarship and The Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation Scholarship from The Musicians Club of Women in Chicago.
An avid chamber musician, Gallia is a member of the Lumiere String Quartet that won first place at the 2013 Midwest Young Artist Chamber Music Competition and SAM Jules M. Laser Chamber Competition. Gallia’s broadcast performances include appearances on WFMT 98.7/Introductions, WTTW Channel 11,WGN Channel 9, and a Today’s Show appearance with Rachel Barton Pine. Some of Gallia’s performances with orchestras include The Lake Forest Symphony Orchestra, The Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra, Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra in Pennsylvania, the Highland Park Strings, the North Shore Chamber Orchestra, the Midwest Young Artist Orchestra, and she will solo with The Montgomery Symphony Orchestra in April. other stage appearances include concerts in Millenium Park, Ravinia, Lincoln Center, Kloster Schontal and Schwabish Hall Kultursiftung in Germany.
She has had the privilege to take master classes with Robert Lipsett, Rachel Barton Pine, Vadim Gluzman, Arkady Fomin, Joseph Silverstein, Ida Kavafian, IIya Kaler, Milan Vitek, Ivry Gitlis, and Sherry Kloss.
She is a sophomore at John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, IL and participates in the school orchestra and the youth music ministry at St James Parish, as a choir member and instrumentalist.
Gallia performs on a copy of the “Ex-Soldat” Guarneri del Gesu, by Peter Seman, 2008, on generous loan from Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation.
