Spring Spectacular! featuring Violinist Rachel Barton Pine
We were honored to welcome back to the Illinois Valley world-renowned violinist Rachel Barton Pine as she performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35.
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Miroslav Skoryk - Melody in e minor
Alexander Borodin - Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor
Modest Mussorgsky, arr. Walter Goehr - The Bogatyr Gates (In the Capital in Kyiv) from Pictures at an Exhibition
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
ABOUT RACHEL
In both art and life, violinist Rachel Barton Pine has an extraordinary ability to connect with people. Celebrated as a leading interpreter of the great classical masterworks, Rachel 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, Rachel transforms audiences’ experiences of classical music.
Rachel Pine’s 2019-2020 season includes a residency with the Singapore Symphony, as well as performances with the Royal Scottish National and Seattle Baroque Orchestras, and the Tel Aviv Soloists. In recital she will appear at Lincoln Center with Matthew Hagle, and Rachel and harpsichordist Jory Vinikour will perform in concerts presented by the National Gallery in Washington D.C. and the San Francisco Early Music Society.
Her November 2019 AVIE recording of the Dvorak and Khachaturian Violin Concertos with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and conductor Teddy Abrams highlights the influence of each composer’s local ethnic music.
Her discography of 39 acclaimed albums also includes Mozart: Complete Violin Concerto, Sinfonia Concertante, with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner conducting; Bel Canto Paganini, Elgar, and Bruch Violin Concertos with the BBC Symphony, Andrew Litton conducting; and Blues Dialogues, an album of blues-influenced classical works for unaccompanied violin and violin/piano by 20th century composers of African descent.
Rachel has appeared as soloist with many of the world’s most prestigious ensembles, including the Chicago, Montreal, Baltimore, and Vienna Symphonies, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, the Mozarteum, Scottish, and Israel Chamber Orchestras and the Netherlands Radio Kamer Philharmonie. She has worked with such renowned conductors as Charles Dutoit, Zubin Mehta, Erich Leinsdorf, John Nelson, Marin Alsop, and Placido Domingo.
The Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation 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 in development with the University of Michigan: The String Students’ Library of Music by Black Composers. 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.
