Ken Allen

Violist Ken Allen brings intellectual and artistic depth to his work with chamber ensembles and orchestras throughout New England. His concert schedule includes regular engagements in professional symphonies between Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well as the Wagner in Vermont summer festival. His early music experience features performances with the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra and A Joyful Noyse.

Ken’s background blends diverse disciplines; he earned an English degree with highest honors from UNC–Chapel Hill and a Graduate Prize Fellowship at Harvard before pursuing a Master of Music at the Boston Conservatory and a Graduate Diploma in Historical Performance from the Longy School of Music. He also received training at the Amherst Early Music’s Baroque Academy, Longy’s International Baroque Institute, Oberlin’s Baroque Performance Institute, and Tafelmusik’s Summer Institute.

Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Marlboro, Vermont, with his husband and cat, Ken performs on violas crafted by Douglas Cox.