3467 Sonoma Boulevard
Suite 10
Vallejo, CA 94590

P. O. Box 568
Vallejo, CA 94590

707-643-4441
Fax: 707-643-5746

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Kathleen Comalli Dillon, a Sonoma County native, is the daughter of educators. Her father taught music and Spanish, and every orchestral instrument could be found in her home when her dad brought them home for her to try. Kathleen began begging for piano lessons at age 3, and her parents acquiesced when she was 6. She played piano recitals and won competitions in her young years. She began viola studies at age 13, and after studying at the San Francisco Conservatory, in New York, and in Europe, won positions in the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and the Oakland Symphony at age 19. She left viola in favor of the violin in 1989, when she successfully auditioned for a violin position with New York City Opera National Company. In her 10 years of service to the Company, she was privileged to serve as concertmaster for the last four.

Kathleen’s local artistic activities include performing as associate concertmaster of Festival Opera, playing in the first violin sections of the Santa Rosa, Marin, and Oakland East Bay Symphonies, and performing as a substitute player with San Francisco Opera Orchestra in the winter. On the soundstage at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, she recorded soundtracks for Predator II and Ricochet, and the 2007 motion picture Zodiac. She has been concertmaster of the Vallejo Symphony since 1994.

Kathleen began the study of medicine in her 40’s, first becoming an ultrasound technologist (RDMS credential) with specialties in physics and OB/GYN. At this time she is happily doing medical editing, translating, and transcription from French, Spanish, and Italian. Her hobbies are water aerobics, kayaking, t’ai-chi, languages, dogs and cats, and the New York Times crossword puzzle.

Her violin is a copy of “the Nightingale” Stradivarius, made in 1993 by noted Bay Area violinmaker Thomas Croen (www.croenini.com). It was first heard in public on the Vallejo Symphony’s trip to Akashi, Japan, in November 1993.