Kristin Ahlstrom

Second Violins

Associate Principal
Virginia V. Weldon, M.D. Chair

Kristin Ahlstrom joined the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra in 1996 and was appointed to the Associate Principal Second Violin chair in 2001. She had formerly been a member of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra after completing both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Violin Performance at Indiana University-Bloomington. Her violin teachers at Indiana included Henryk Kowalski, Josef Gingold, and Stanley Ritchie. She studied chamber music with Rostislav Dubinsky, and, as a member of the Kono Quartet, was a finalist in the Osaka (Japan) International Chamber Music Competition. An avid chamber musician, Ms. Ahlstrom performs regularly in the SLSO's Education and Community Partnership Program and she is a member of the Ilex Piano Trio along with her husband pianist Peter Henderson and SLSO cellist Anne Fagerburg. Ms. Ahlstrom has played chamber music recitals as well as orchestral concerts as a member of the Sun Valley (Idaho) Summer Symphony since 2001, and has appeared many times since 1998 as a soloist and chamber musician at the Garth Newel Music Center in Hot Springs, Virginia. For the last three summers, Ms. Ahlstrom has performed as a guest artist at Indiana University's summer concert series. She was also a soloist with the SLSO in 2007 and 2008.