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Rachel Barton Pine
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and Joachim Violin Concertos (Carlos Kalmar and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra),
and Elgar and Bruch Violin Concertos (Andrew Litton and the BBC Symphony
Orchestra). Pine and Sir Neville Marriner’s Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos with
the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and her Bel Canto Paganini both charted
at number three on the classical charts. Pine’s Testament: Complete Sonatas and
Partitas for Solo Violin by Johann Sebastian Bach and Violin Lullabies debuted at
number one. Her recent Blues Dialogues is an album of blues-influenced classical
works by 20th- and 21st-century Black composers.
Pine frequently performs music by contemporary composers, including major works
written for her by Billy Childs, Mohammed Fairouz, Marcus Goddard, Earl Maneein,
Shawn E. Okpebholo, Daniel Bernard Roumain, José Serebrier, and Augusta Read
Thomas. In addition to her career as a soloist, she is an avid performer of baroque,
renaissance, and medieval music on baroque violin, viola d’amore, renaissance
violin, and rebec.
In addition to her regularly scheduled performances, Pine has subbed in for her
fellow soloists for a number of incredible concerts. Most notably, in 2021, with just
3 1/2 hours’ notice, Pine performed Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 at Ravinia with
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop in place of Midori.
She has appeared on The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, PBS NewsHour, Prairie
Home Companion, NPR’s Tiny Desk, NPR’s All Things Considered, and Performance
Today, and in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She holds prizes from
several of the world’s leading competitions, including a gold medal at the 1992 J.S.
Bach International Violin Competition.
She writes her own cadenzas and performs many of her own arrangements. With the
publication of The Rachel Barton Pine Collection, she became the only living artist
and first woman in Carl Fischer’s Masters Collection series. During the pandemic,
she performed the entire solo violin part of 24 different violin concertos, live and
unaccompanied, for her weekly series “24 in 24: Concertos from the Inside.”
An active philanthropist, Pine has led the Rachel Barton Pine (RBP) Foundation for
over two decades. Early in her career, she noticed that young people learning classical
music seldom have the opportunity to study and perform music written by Black
composers. Since 2001, Pine and her RBP Foundation’s Music by Black Composers
(MBC) project have collected more than 900 works by 450+ Black composers from
the 18th–21st centuries. MBC curates free repertoire directories on its website and
publishes print resources, including pedagogical books of music exclusively by
global Black classical composers and the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation Coloring
Book of Black Composers. Additionally, the RBP Foundation assists young artists
through its Instrument Loan
Program and Grants for Education and Career. Pine has also served on the board of
many not-for- profits including the Sphinx Organization. She performs on the “exBazzini, ex-Soldat” Joseph Guarnerius “del Gesù” (Cremona 1742), on lifetime loan
from her anonymous patron.
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