Ken Allen

Violist Ken Allen is a founder and the president of the Massachusetts Viola Society, as well as a founding member of Trio Notturno. An active chamber and orchestral musician, Ken performs regularly with a wide variety of ensembles in the Greater Boston area and beyond, including the Apollo Ensemble of Boston, Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, New England Philharmonic, New England Repertory Orchestra, New England Symphony Orchestra, Oriana Consort, and Plymouth Philharmonic. 

After undergraduate and graduate studies in English at UNC-Chapel Hill and at Harvard, Ken earned his Master of Music degree in viola performance from the Boston Conservatory, where his primary teachers were Lila Brown and Leonard Matczynski. He recently completed a Graduate Performance Diploma in Historical Performance at the Longy School of Music, where he took lessons with Dana Maiben, Sarah Darling, and Vivian Montgomery.

Ken’s previous summer early music festival experiences include participation in the Amherst Early Music Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, International Baroque Institute at Longy, Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, as well as the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute.