About

Composer Bernard Vallandingham felt a calling for music at a very early age and started learning how to play the violin after falling in love with its magical sound when he heard it first time in a concert hall at age four.

Performing and Composing

Mr. Vallandingham combined from the start two passions, both completing each other: Performing and Composing. Mr. Vallandingham’s unusual versatility as a violinist as well as violist had led to many performances in many concert halls throughout the US such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in Palm Beach, Gusman Center for the Performing Arts in Miami and Naples Center for the Arts in Naples and has worked with conductors Kurt Masur, Yuri Temirkanov, Zdenek Macal, Joseph Silverstein, Marco Armiliato among others.

Mr. Vallandingham has been a member of well established orchestra groups such as the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, Manhattan Virtuosi, with whom Mr. Vallandingham performed as a concertmaster and the Philadelphia Virtuosi.