Chamber Music Hamilton presents violinist Rachel Barton Pine

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Event type: All Ages

Rachel Barton Pine will bring us a programme for solo violin.

Heralded as a leading interpreter of the great classical masterworks, international concert violinist Rachel Barton Pine thrills 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.

In May, 2017 Avie Records released Pine’s Bel Canto Paganini, which includes her performance of all 24 Paganini Caprices as well as other Paganini unaccompanied works. Pine’s most recent album Testament: Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by Johann Sebastian Bach (Avie, 2016) and her 2013 Violin Lullabies (Cedille) both charted at number one on the Billboard Classical chart.

In August 2016, Pine spent time with the legendary Sir Neville Marriner to discuss their upcoming recording of the Elgar and Bruch violin concertos with the BBC Symphony. In January 2018 the album was released as a tribute to the late conductor. Pine and Sir Mariner previously collaborated on Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos with The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which charted at number three on the Billboard Classical chart in 2015.

Pine has a prolific discography of 35 CDs on the Avie, Cedille, Warner Classics, and Dorian labels.  She recorded Brahms and Joachim Violin Concertos with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Carlos Kalmar conducting.  Her Beethoven & Clement Violin Concerto, with The Royal Philharmonic and conductor José Serebrier featured the world premiere recording of Clement’s D Major Violin Concerto.

She writes her own cadenzas to many of the works she performs.  With the publication of The Rachel Barton Pine Collection, Pine became the only living artist and first woman to join great musicians like Fritz Kreisler and Jascha Heifetz in Carl Fischer’s Masters Collection series.

The Rachel Barton Pine Foundation assists young artists through various projects, including the Instrument Loan Program, Grants for Education and Career, Global HeartStrings (supporting musicians in developing countries), and a curricular series in development with the University of Michigan: Music by Black Composers.

Pine performs on the Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu (Cremona 1742), known as the “ex-Bazzini, ex-Soldat” on lifetime loan from her anonymous patron.