"An exciting, boundary-defying performer - Pine displays a power and confidence that puts her in the top echelon."

- The Washington Post

In both life and art, violinist Rachel Barton Pine has an extraordinary gift for connecting with her audiences. She has received worldwide acclaim for her virtuosic technical mastery, lustrous tone and perceptive performances. Her passion for research allows her to bring emotionally charged, historically-informed interpretations to her diverse repertoire, and her work as a philanthropist continues to inspire the next generation of artists and concert-goers.

Highlights of her 2010-2011 season include performances with Netherland's Radio Kamer Filharmonie at the Concertgebouw, Bournemouth Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile, Turkey's Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, Mexico's Orquesta Sinfonica de la UANL, Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira, as well as appearances with the Stamford, Springfield, Lake Geneva, Asheville, Shreveport and Jacksonville Symphonies, the Illinois, Riverside and Brevard Philharmonics, and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. These concerts include concertos by Barber, Brahms, Bruch, Beethoven, Clement, Glazunov, Mozart, Szymanowski, Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi. Her period instrument chamber ensemble, Trio Settecento, will be featured at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., and at the 2011 Boston Early Music Festival. Recital appearances include dates in Dayton, OH and North Central College in Naperville, IL, for the Ladies Morning Musical Club in Montreal, and return engagements with the Montreal and Amelia Island Chamber Music Festivals.

In May, 2011, Pine will release Capricho Latino, a collection of unaccompanied virtuoso pieces from Spain and Latin America, on the Cedille label. Also in 2011, Warner Classics will release her performance of the Glazunov Violin Concerto, recorded with the Russian National Orchestra conducted by José Serebrier.

Pine has appeared as soloist with many of the world's most prestigious ensembles, including North America's Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Vancouver, Syracuse, Montreal, Atlanta and Baltimore Symphonies; Buffalo and Rochester Philharmonics; and Philadelphia and Louisville Orchestras. Overseas, she has performed with the Vienna, Iceland, New Zealand and Budapest Symphonies; the Royal Scottish and Belgian National Orchestras; the Israel, Mozarteum and Scottish Chamber Orchestras, and the Royal Philharmonic. She has worked with such renowned conductors as Charles Dutoit, Zubin Mehta, Erich Leinsdorf, Neeme Järvi, Marin Alsop, José Serebrier and Placido Domingo and has collaborated with such leading artists as Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, William Warfield, Christopher O'Riley and Mark O'Connor. Her festival appearances have included Marlboro, Ravinia, El Paso, Vail and Salzburg. Last season she made her recital debuts in New York and Tokyo, and offered the world premiere of the last movement of Samuel Barber's long-lost 1928 Violin Sonata at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival. She recently played for the President of Ghana and the President of Singapore as well as for the Justices at the U.S. Supreme Court. She frequently collaborates with living composers; Augusta Read Thomas has written a number of violin works for Pine and she was the second violinist to play John Corigliano's entire Red Violin Concerto, working closely with him on the interpretation.

Pine has earned critical acclaim for her prolific discography of 16 recordings. For Beethoven & Clement Violin Concertos, released in 2008 on the Cedille label, Pine performed a centerpiece of the violin repertoire, the Beethoven Concerto, as well as the world premiere recording of Clement's D Major Violin Concerto, unearthed from 200 years of obscurity. The album was recorded with London's Royal Philharmonic conducted by José Serebrier. Her American Virtuosa: Tribute to Maud Powell features rarely-heard Victorian-era gems arranged by America's first internationally acclaimed violinist. Her 2005 album Scottish Fantasies for Violin and Orchestra features Pine with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Alexander Platt and famed Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser performing evocative works based on traditional Scottish melodies. Her Solo Baroque album highlights two of Bach's masterpieces for unaccompanied violin and their predecessors. An album of Brahms and Joachim Concertos in collaboration with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conductor Carlos Kalmar features performances of both Joachim's and Pine's own cadenzas for the Brahms Concerto and was nominated for a 2004 GRAMMY Award as "Best Engineered Album, Classical." Previous acclaimed recordings on the Cedille label include Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries, nominated for a National Public Radio (NPR) Heritage Award; the complete Handel Sonatas for Violin and Continuo; 20th-century duos on Double Play; and an album of virtuoso pieces entitled Instrument of the Devil. In 1994, Pine released her much-heralded debut recording Homage to Sarasate with pianist Samuel Sanders on the Dorian label.

Pine holds prizes from several of the world's leading competitions, including a gold medal at the 1992 J.S. Bach International Violin Competition in Leipzig, Germany. She was the first American and, at age 17, the youngest person to ever win this honor. Other top awards came from the Queen Elisabeth (Brussels, 1993), Kreisler (Vienna, 1992), Szigeti (Budapest, 1992) and Montreal (1991) International Violin Competitions. She won prizes for her interpretation of the Paganini Caprices at both the Szigeti Competition and the 1993 Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa. She often performs the complete Paganini Caprices and the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas (each cycle in a single evening).

Pine writes her own cadenzas to many of the works she performs including concertos by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart and Paganini. Last fall, Carl Fischer published The Rachel Barton Pine Collection, a collection of original compositions, arrangements, cadenzas and editions penned or arranged by Pine, which earned her the distinction of being the only living artist and first woman to join great musicians like Fritz Kreisler and Jascha Heifetz in Carl Fischer's Masters Collection series. Pine is also Music Advisor and Editor of Maud Powell Favorites, the only published compilation of Powell's transcriptions, Powell's cadenza for the Brahms Violin Concerto, and the music dedicated to, commissioned by, or closely associated with Powell.

Pine is also an avid performer of historically-informed interpretations of baroque, renaissance and medieval music on baroque violin, viola d'amore, renaissance violin and rebec. She regularly performs with John Mark Rozendaal and David Schrader as the period instrument ensemble Trio Settecento, and often appears as a guest artist with such groups as the Newberry Consort. In September 2009, Cedille Records released Trio Settecento's album, A German Bouquet, a selection of German Baroque era works with popular pieces by Bach and Buxtehude as well as rarely heard repertoire by artists including Johann Schop, Georg Muffat and Johann Georg Pisendel. Featuring Pine on baroque violin, Rozendaal on viola da gamba and 'cello and Schrader on harpsichord and organ, A German Bouquet follows up the group's highly successful An Italian Sojourn from 2007. The trio will continue to explore the character and complexion of Baroque music as it developed in various regions of Europe in future albums focusing on music from France and the British Isles.

Pine is committed to encouraging the next generation to experience the transformative power of the arts and works to expand awareness of and appreciation for classical music. Since 1997, she has been an instructor at Mark O'Connor's Fiddle Camp. She teaches chamber music, coaches youth orchestras, gives master classes, conducts workshops at universities, adjudicates music competitions, creates special programs for children and school groups, and offers spoken program notes or pre-concert conversations for audiences of all ages. In 2007, she received the prestigious Studs Terkel Humanities Service Awards for her work in music education.

A fan of rock and heavy metal since her pre-teens, Pine's ability to see the connecting threads between classical and rock music makes her the perfect bridge between generations of music fans. Hailed as an artistic ambassador, she often visits rock radio stations and rock clubs to perform her own arrangements of rock and metal songs followed by classical pieces to illustrate how the two genres share a similar intensity and compositional complexity.

Pine serves on the faculty of Mark Wood's Rock Orchestra Camp, and this season she will join the famed rock violinist in performance at the American String Teachers Association conference. She has also developed "Shredding with the Symphony," an innovative orchestral initiative aimed at drawing new audience members to symphony concerts around the world. The program features Pine performing her own violin and orchestral arrangements of rock and metal classics by groups like AC/DC, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Ozzy Osbourne and Nine Inch Nails, interspersed with powerful classical favorites by composers including Shostakovich, Sibelius, Paganini and Bruch. Another rock project on the horizon will have Pine collaborate with composers who will create classical pieces incorporating heavy metal influences. Last year, she acquired a custom-made extended range flying V electric violin and formed the six-piece doom/thrash metal band Earthen Grave. The group frequently performs and recently released a critically-acclaimed five-song EP called Dismal Times.

Pine is President of the Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation, which assists young artists through various projects including the Instrument Loan Program, Grants for Education and Career, Global HeartStrings (supporting classical musicians in developing countries), and a curricular series developed in conjunction with the University of Michigan: The String Students' Library of Music by Black Composers. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Music Institute of Chicago, which recently named the "Rachel Barton Pine Violin Chair" in her honor.

She was a torchbearer in the 1996 Olympic torch relay and appeared as soloist for the opening ceremonies of the Paralympic Games in Atlanta. She performed her own arrangement of the national anthem at 1995 and 1996 Chicago Bulls playoff games, and at the 1996 Democratic National Convention. She has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, appeared five times on NBC's Today Show, and frequently has been a guest on nationally-syndicated radio shows including Performance Today, Saint Paul Sunday and From the Top. Recent cover stories include Strad, Strings and International Musician.

A Chicago native, Pine began violin studies at age three and made her professional debut four years later at age seven with the Chicago String Ensemble. Her earliest appearances with the Chicago Symphony (at ages ten and fifteen) were broadcast on television. Her principal teachers were Roland and Almita Vamos and she has also studied with Ruben Gonzalez, Werner Scholz, Elmira Darvarova and several specialists in early music performance practice. Pine resides in Chicago with her husband. Her blog, podcast, and video channel may be accessed through her website www.rachelbartonpine.com. She performs on the Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu (Cremona 1742), known as the "ex-Soldat," on generous loan from her patron.

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