Rachel Barton Pine

Rachel Barton Pine

Pine performing at the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. in 2011
Background information
Birth name Rachel Elizabeth Barton
Born (1974-10-11) October 11, 1974
Origin Chicago, Illinois, USA
Genres Classical
Baroque
Heavy metal
Occupation(s) Violinist
NPO administrator
Instruments Violin
Electric violin
Baroque violin
Viola d'amore[1]
Rebec
Renaissance violin
Years active 1981-present
Labels Cedille Records
Dorian Recordings
Warner Classics
Avie Records
Hyperion Records
Hänssler Classic
Naxos Records
Associated acts Trio Settecento
Earthen Grave
Website rachelbartonpine.com

Rachel Barton Pine (born Rachel Elizabeth Barton, October 11, 1974) is an American violinist. She debuted with the Chicago Symphony at age 10, and was the first American and youngest ever gold medal winner of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition.[2] The Washington Post wrote that she "displays a power and confidence that puts her in the top echelon."[3]

Pine tours worldwide as a soloist with prestigious orchestras, has an active recording career, and has run The Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation since 2001 which provides services and funding to promote classical music education and performances.[4]

Early life

Pine was born in Chicago, and began playing the violin at age 3 after being inspired by the example of older girls playing at her church. She debuted with the Chicago String Ensemble at age 7, and with the Chicago Symphony under the baton of Erich Leinsdorf at age 10. Her passion for violin compelled her to practice 4 or 5 hours a day as a second grader, prompting her elementary school principal to encourage her parents to begin home schooling,[5] which allowed her to focus on her music, practicing 8 hours a day. Her principal teachers were Roland and Almita Vamos of the Music Institute of Chicago. At age 14, she began taking paid gigs playing at weddings and in orchestras, which allowed her to contribute significantly to her family’s income as they experienced financial difficulties. Explaining how she managed, she says, "I put on a lot of makeup and pretended I was older than I was."[6]

She attained notable success in a number of violin competitions, including winning the 1992 Johann Sebastian Bach International Competition in Leipzig, Germany.[2] She also earned 2nd prizes in the József Szigeti Violin Competition (1992) and the International Fritz Kreisler Competition (1992), as well as awards from the Montreal International Musical Competition (1991), the Paganini Competition (1993), and the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition (1993).[7][8]

Career

Pine has appeared as a soloist with orchestras around the world including the Chicago, Montreal, Atlanta, Budapest, San Diego, Baltimore, St. Louis, Vienna, New Zealand, Iceland and Dallas Symphonies; Buffalo, Rochester, the Royal, Calgary and Russian Philharmonics, and the Philadelphia, Louisville, Royal Scottish and Belgian National Orchestras; the Mozarteum, Scottish and Israel Chamber Orchestras, and the Netherlands Radio Kamer Filharmonie. She has performed under conductors such as Charles Dutoit, John Nelson, Zubin Mehta, Erich Leinsdorf, Neeme Järvi, Marin Alsop, Semyon Bychkov, Plácido Domingo, and José Serebrier, and with artists including Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Christopher O'Reilly, Mark O'Connor, and William Warfield.

Her festival appearances include Marlboro, Ravinia, Montreal, Wolf Trap, Vail, Davos, and Salzburg's Mozartwoche at the invitation of Franz Welser-Möst.

Her premieres of pieces by living composers include “Rush” for solo violin by Augusta Read Thomas,[9] Mohammed Fairouz's “Native Informant” Sonata for Solo Violin and “Al-Andalus” Violin Concerto, and the Panamanian premiere of Panamanian composer Roque Cordero's 1962 Violin Concerto.

In addition to her mixed recital programs, Pine has regularly given single evening performances of the six Bach Sonatas and Partitas,[10] the 24 Paganini Caprices,[11] and the complete Brahms Sonatas.

In 2015, Pine released her debut Avie Records recording Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos with one of her “musical heroes” conductor Sir Neville Marriner and The Academy of St Martin in the Fields.[12] Pine grew up listening to Sir Neville and The Academy of St Martin in the Fields’ recordings and their performance on the Amadeus movie soundtrack. Studying Mozart’s operas she gained an appreciation for the drama, playfulness and flirtation of his violin concertos featured on the new album.[13]The recording also contains Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, recorded with violist Matthew Lipman, a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient.[14]

Pine started exploring esteemed violin concertos and the concertos that inspired them with Brahms and Joachim Violin Concertos, recorded with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conductor Carlos Kalmar in 2002.[15] Her 2008 Beethoven & Clement Violin Concertos, recorded with The Royal Philharmonic and conducted by Serebrier, offered the world premiere recording of Clement’s D Major Violin Concerto.[16]

Her 2013 recording with pianist Matthew Hagle, Violin Lullabies, debuted at number one on the Billboard classical chart.[17] Pine’s recording of Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries was nominated for a National Public Radio Heritage Award.[18]

Carl Fischer Music recently published a sheet music book of cadenzas and virtuosic encore pieces composed by Pine, as well as her arrangements of other works for violin and piano, as part of its Masters Collection. Pine became the first living composer and first woman to be so honored.[19] Pine has also edited a 4-volume collection of compositions associated with America's pioneering female solo violinist Maud Powell,[20][21] many of which she has also recorded.[22] In 2014. Pine helped to accept a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award on behalf of Maud Powell, after successfully campaign the Recording Academy for honor.[23]

Her musical interests extend well beyond classical to baroque, folk, Celtic, rock, and jazz. She regularly instructs at Mark O'Connor's annual summer fiddle camp, and in 2004 she released a CD in collaboration with Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser.

Pine performs chamber music as part of Trio Settecento with David Schrader and John Mark Rozendaal, and with the Jupiter Chamber Players. In 2015, Trio Settecento released Veracini’s Complete Sonate Accademiche for Violin and Continuo.[24] The Trio’s Grand Tour collection of four CDs on Cedille Records takes listeners on a country-by-country of the European Baroque.

Her current principal instrument is the 1742 'ex-Bazzini, Soldat' violin of Guarneri del Gesu. For seventeenth- and eighteenth-century pieces, she prefers to use an unaltered 1770 instrument of Nicolò Gagliano I.[25]

Her taste in rock runs to heavy metal, with AC/DC, Anthrax, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Megadeth, Metallica, Motörhead, Pantera, Slayer, and Van Halen being among her favorites.[7][26] She has met and jammed with a number of these; in 1997, she released a heavy-metal-inspired recordings. “In practicing and preparing those songs, I discovered that a lot of the heavy metal I’d been listening to was some of the most sophisticated compositionally of all rock music, and very inspired by classical music,” Pine has said, “Then all these people in ripped jeans started coming to my concerts.” [27]

In February 2009, she joined the thrash/doom metal band Earthen Grave, where she performs on a 6-string Viper electric violin. The band has shared the stage with such metal luminaries as Pentagram, Black Label Society, Mayhem, and Nachtmystium. The group released an EP, Dismal Times.[28] Doommantia.com proclaimed that Earthen Grave has "all the songwriting capabilities to make one of the best albums ever."[29] and HellrideMusic.com said "If the doom gods are with us, this band will stay around and continue to produce the kind of unique, powerful and thoughtful music contained on Dismal Times."[30] Pine credits her experience playing in a rock band with improving her emotional rapport with her audiences.[31]

Pine often brings a new twist to her coaching sessions with chamber music and youth orchestras, by incorporating orchestral versions of rock pieces into her sessions. For example, Pine offered the world premiere of her own arrangement of Metallica's "Master of Puppets" with the McHenry County Youth Symphony (Crystal Lake, IL) in November 2009. In May 2015 she premiered her “Shredding with the Symphony” program with the Lafayette Symphony, which features music from Shostakovich, Bruch, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Sibelius, and Paganini as well as Van Halen, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Rush, Nirvana, Metallica and Led Zeppelin.[32]

Bill McGlaughlin called her a "musical Pac-Man" for her ability to take in and perform so many different kinds of music.[33] She has often performed at schools and on rock music radio stations in an effort to interest younger audiences in classical music.

Pine was inducted as an honorary member of Sigma Alpha Iota in 2003.[8] She performed at the music fraternity's 45th national convention during summer 2009 in Chicago.

On July 11, 2010, Pine gave a three-part performance at Chicago's Millennium Park as part of the Great Performers of Illinois celebration. After initially performing on baroque violin with Trio Settecento, she soloed in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra and then switched gears again to perform in black leather on her electric violin with Earthen Grave. In conjunction with the event, she received the 2010 Great Performer of Illinois award.[34][35]

In 2010, Pine participated in a tribute album titled Mister Bolin's Late Night Revival, a compilation of 17 previously unreleased tracks written by guitar legend Tommy Bolin prior to his death in 1976. The CD includes other artists such as HiFi Superstar, Doogie White, Eric Martin, Troy Luccketta, Jeff Pilson, Randy Jackson, Rex Carroll, Derek St. Holmes, Kimberley Dahme, and The 77's. A percentage of the proceeds from this project will benefit the Jackson Recovery Centers.[36]

Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation

Pine started a foundation bearing her maiden name in 2001 to promote the study and appreciation of classical music, including string music by black composers. It prepares music curricula on black composers, loans high-quality instruments to deserving young musicians, and provides grants to cover incidental expenses (such as for supplemental lessons, accompanists, sheet music, travel, competition entrance fees, instrument repair, and audition recordings) of students and young professional musicians. Another program, Global HeartStrings, is dedicated to supporting aspiring classical musicians from developing countries.[37] In this effort, Barton Pine has been aided by a younger sister, Hannah Barton, also a violinist.[38]

In 2006, after being nominated by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, Barton Pine received the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award for her work through the foundation.[39] She has also been given the 2012 Karl Haas Prize for Music Education for this work and her other education-related efforts.[40]

A Stradivarius violin, the 'Arkwright Lady Rebecca Sylvan', was donated to the foundation by Joseph Sylvan in 2015.[41][42]

Metra accident

On January 16, 1995, Pine was severely injured in a train accident in the suburb of Winnetka, where she taught violin lessons.[2][43][44][45][46] As she was exiting a Metra commuter train with her violin over her shoulder, the doors closed on the strap to her case, pinning her left shoulder to the train. The doors, which were controlled remotely and had no safety sensors, failed to reopen, and she was dragged 366 feet by the train before being pulled underneath and run over, severing one leg and mangling the other. Pine was saved by the prompt application of tourniquets by several passengers who disembarked from the train after pulling its emergency brake handles.[43]

She sued Metra and Chicago NorthWestern Railroad for compensation for her injuries and legal and medical expenses. Metra argued that she made the choice not to extricate her arm from the strap of the violin case due to the value of the instrument, a 400-year-old Amati valued at around $500,000, and thus she carried most of the blame for her injuries. The jury ruled in Pine's favor.[44] Metra changed its conductor safety procedures following the incident and made other changes to the trains themselves.

The esteem in which she was held by the classical music community was highlighted when Daniel Barenboim, the conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra organized a benefit concert and raised over $75,000 after she was injured.[43] After a two-year hiatus to allow for recovery from her injuries, aided by numerous surgeries and physical therapy, Pine resumed her career.[2]

Personal life

In 2004,[47] Barton married Greg Pine, a health care consulting firm CEO and former minor league baseball pitcher.[48] They have one daughter.

Discography

References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 Rosenberg, D. (2012-10-13). "Violinist Rachel Barton Pine, indomitable in face of injury, savors classical and heavy-metal journeys". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
  3. ↑ Wein, Gail (February 24, 2006). "A History of Violins". The Washington Post. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "About". The Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  5. ↑ Crocker, Lizzie (2015-01-14). "Rachel Barton Pine, The Violin Virtuoso Who Cheated Death". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
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  8. 1 2 Pine, Rachel Barton. "Awards and Honors". RachelBartonPine.com. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
  9. ↑ Read Thomas, Augusta. "Rush (2005)". Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  10. ↑ "Rachel Barton Pine, Violin". Ravinia Festival 2014 schedule. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  11. ↑ Schweitzer, Vivien. "For Paganini, a Wild and Devilish Lifestyle Fueled Some Virtuoso Compositions". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  12. ↑ Niles, Laurie. "Violinist.com Interview with Rachel Barton Pine: the Complete Mozart Concertos". Violinist.com. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  13. ↑ Barton Pine, Rachel. "Violinist Rachel Barton Pine, Sir Neville Marriner, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on Mozart". YouTube. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  14. ↑ "The Avery Fisher Career Grants". About Lincoln Center. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
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  20. ↑ "Maud Powell Favorites". Maud Powell Society web site. The Maud Powell Society for Women in Music. 2009. Retrieved 2010-06-02.
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  30. ↑ Ballue, Mike (2009-10-31). "Review of Dismal Times". HellrideMusic.Com. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
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  32. ↑ "Rachel Barton Pine to join Indiana’s Lafayette Symphony Orchestra for Shredding With The Symphony". Brave Words. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
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  35. ↑ Kalsnes, Lynette (2010-07-08). "Famous Classical Violinist's Side Project Full of 'Doom'". WBEZ91.5 City Room. Retrieved 2010-07-08.
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  38. ↑ "Hannah Barton: Violin, Viola, Viper". Hannah Barton's web site. Retrieved 2012-12-06.
  39. ↑ "Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award for Rachel Barton Pine". The Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award - 2006 web site. Illinois Humanities Council. 2007. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
  40. ↑ "Haas Award Goes to Rachel Barton Pine". Missouri Southern State University web site. 2012-11-26. Retrieved 2012-12-06.
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  51. ↑ Howard, Leslie. "Liner Notes Essay for Liszt: Works for Violin and Piano". RBP online discography.
  52. ↑ Clague, Mark. "Liner Notes Essay for Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries". RBP online discography.
  53. ↑ Pine, Greg. "Liner Notes Essay for Stringendo: Storming the Citadel". RBP online discography.
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  55. ↑ Sullivan, Todd E. "Liner Notes Essay for Double Play: Twentieth Century Duos for Violin and Cello". RBP online discography.
  56. ↑ Pine, Rachel Barton. "Liner Notes Essay for Brahms and Joachim Violin Concertos". RBP online discography.
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  58. ↑ Pine, Rachel Barton. "Liner Notes Essay for Solo Baroque". RBP online discography.
  59. ↑ Pine, Rachel Barton. "Liner Notes Essay for Scottish Fantasies for Violin and Orchestra". RBP online discography.
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