Christopher Halls - Know our mentor creator

Chris offers individual coaching, biography advises and arts plan advises for young aspiring musicians on KALOS, before getting his advice, what about getting to know more about him?

Christopher Halls is a violinist, teacher and writer whose major focus is in the field of early music performance. As a freelancer he always understood the importance of adaptability and nurturing connections throughout his career. He graduated from The Victorian College of the Arts (now The University of Melbourne) where his teacher Spiros Rantos helped pave the way for baroque studies with the renowned violin professor Eduard Melkus at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and later with his mentor, the highly-respected violinist and early music specialist Hiro Kurosaki.

Christopher has taken part in multiple projects in Europe, America, and his homeland Australia, including regular performances and recordings with The Haydn Academy in Austria (culminating in a series of Haydn’s complete symphonies at the Esterhazy Palace), guest appearances with early music ensembles in Washington D.C., Boston and Philadelphia, and a long standing collaboration with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, all of which has played a fulfilling role in his diverse freelance career.

Down but not out, after a serious car accident in 2014 put a 10-year hold on his active professional performance, Chris continued to teach both language and violin, and began writing classical concert reviews in Vienna for the Wiener Zeitung (Austria’s oldest newspaper.) His writing angle, seen through the eyes of a performer rather than those of a musicologist or mere enthusiast, has proven both rewarding and successful, leading to regular contributions for the international classical review website Bachtrack, and concert reviews and articles for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, where he currently resides.

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