Kristin Ahlstrom
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 for one year 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, Kristin performs regularly in the SLSO's Community Outreach Program and is a member of the Ilex Piano Trio along with her husband, pianist Peter Henderson, and SLSO cellist Anne Fagerburg. Kristin has been playing chamber music recitals as well as orchestral concerts as a member of the Sun Valley (Idaho) Summer Symphony since 2001, and since 1998 has appeared many times as a soloist and chamber musician at the Garth Newel Music Center in Hot Springs, Virginia.
