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Rachel Barton Pine
VIOLIN
Heralded as a leading interpreter of the great classical
masterworks, American concert violinist Rachel
Barton Pine thrills international audiences with her
dazzling technique, lustrous tone, and emotional
honesty. With an infectious joy in music-making
and a passion for connecting historical research to
performance, Pine transforms audiences’ experiences
of classical music.
Pine performs with the world's leading orchestras
including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, and the
Chicago, Vienna, and Detroit Symphony Orchestras.
She has worked with renowned conductors, including
Teddy Abrams, Marin Alsop, Daniel Barenboim,
Semyon Bychkov, Neeme Järvi, Christoph
Eschenbach, Erich Leinsdorf, Nicholas McGegan,
Zubin Mehta, Tito Muñoz, and John Nelson, and has performed chamber music with
Jonathan Gilad, Clive Greensmith, Paul Neubauer, Jory Vinikour, William Warfield,
Orion Weiss, and the Pacifica and Parker Quartets.
This summer and 2023/24 season, Pine joins the Los Angeles Philharmonic and
Stéphane Denève at the Hollywood Bowl for a performance of Billy Childs’ Violin
Concerto No. 2 written specially for Pine, in addition to performing with the Royal
Scottish National Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, Mercury Chamber Orchestra,
Toledo Symphony, National Symphony of Uruguay, and Minas Gerais Philharmonic,
among others. Recital appearances include at the Kennedy Center, Ravinia, and the
Festival Internacional de Música de Guadalajara. Early Music appearances include
a performance with Symphoria and her daughter, Sylvia Pine, in New York; San
Francisco Early Music Society with harpsichordist Jory Vinikour; and in Virginia with
her Trio Settecento.
In August 2023, Cedille Records released Dependent Arising, an album that reveals
surprising confluences between classical and heavy metal music by pairing
Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with Earl Maneein’s Dependent Arising –
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, written for Pine and performed with the Royal
Scottish National Orchestra under the baton of Tito Muñoz. In September 2022,
Cedille released Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries: 25th
anniversary edition which features Pine’s new recording of Price: Violin Concerto No.
2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Jonathon Heyward, and reprisals of
her 1997 recordings of masterworks by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
(1775), José White Lafitte (1864), and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1899). And in March
2023, Pine’s performance of Malek Jandali: Violin Concerto No. 2, recorded with the
Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop, was released on an album of Jandali
concertos.
Pine’s other discography of over 40 recordings includes Dvořák and Khachaturian
Violin Concertos (Teddy Abrams and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra); Brahms
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