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Rachel Barton Pine
A Chicago native, Rachel Barton Pine began violin studies at age three and made her professional debut four years later with the Chicago String
Ensemble. At ages ten and fifteen she made her earliest appearances with the Chicago Symphony, broadcast for television. Since those early
beginnings Ms. Pine has appeared as soloist with many of the world's most prestigious orchestras, including the Chicago, Dallas, San Diego, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Rochester orchestras. Overseas she has played in such venues as Montreal, Vienna, New Zealand, Iceland, Budapest, Salzburg, and many, many more.
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She is well-known on television and radio, and has eleven CD's to her credit, one of which was nominated for a 2004 Grammy Award as
"Best Engineered Album, Classical". She has won awards in many international violin competitions, including the Montreal (1991), Szigeti (Budapest, 1992), Kreisler (Vienna, 1992), and Queen Elizabeth (Brussels, 1993) Competitions in addition to her Gold Medal at the 1992 J.S. Bach
competition in Leipzig. Her playing has been described as "confident, grandiloquent performance projected with real authority". Ms. Pine plays on a very special violin built by Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu in Cremona, Italy in 1742, known as the "ex-Soldat" violin. She currently resides in Chicago with her husband.
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After her performance for Music for Youth, she will offer free master classes on the violin.
To register, please phone 203-227-1611, giving name, age and ability level of the student, address and phone number, or email: pcum@optonline.net
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