Rachel Barton Pine

Rachel Barton Pine is from Chicago. She began learning to play the violin when she was 3 years old. When she was only four years she performed with the Chicago String Ensemble and gave her earliest performance with the Chicago Symphony at ages 10. Rachel was home schooled and this allowed her many hours to practice the violin.

She has performed the complete Paganini Caprices and the Bach Sonatas and Partitas in live broadcasts on WFMT Radio. She enjoys performing chamber music and has been a guest artist with such groups as the Chicago Baroque Ensemble and the Pacifica String Quartet. Her teachers were Roland and Almita Vamos and she has studied with Ruben Gonzalez, Werner Scholz and Elmira Darvarova.
She plays the "ex-Lord Coke" Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu 1744 on generous loan from the Fazenda Iparanga Guaranesia/MG, Brazil.
~Rachel's photo by Andrew Eccles

Rachel's Awards!


the first American and youngest artist to win the gold medal at the 1992 Quadrennial J.S. Bach International Violin Competition in Leipzig, Germany

Other top honors came from the Queen Elisabeth in Brussels, 1993

Kreisler in Vienna, 1992

Szigeti (Budapest, 1992)

Montreal (1991) international violin competitions,

prize for interpretation of the Paganini Caprices at both the Szigeti Competition and the 1993 Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa.

Below are listed CD's Rachel Barton's Recordings Rachel records for Cedille Records
Dorian Recordings HOMAGE TO PABLO DE SARASATE pianist Samuel Sanders Sarasate's Eight Spanish Dances Carmen Fantasy	Cedille Records GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL SONATAS FOR VIOLIN AND CONTINUO historically informed interpretations
Dorian Rrcordings FERENC LISZT works for violin and piano	Cedille Records VIOLIN CONCERTOS BY BLACK COMPOSERS Encore Chamber Orchestra
Cacophony Rrcords RACHEL BARTON - STRINGENDO STORMING THE CITADEL Star-Spangled Banner Paganini's 24th Caprice	Cedille Records INSTRUMENT OF THE DEVIL Round of the Goblins The Witches' Dance Devil's Trill Sonata Danse Macabre Mephisto Waltz popular encores
Cedille Records DOUBLE PLAY TWENTITH CENTURY DUOS VIOLIN AND CELLO cellist Wendy Warner Duo No. 2 by Martinu Duo by Schulhoff Sonata by Ravel Duo, Op. 7 by Kodály	Cedille Records AMERICAN VIRTUOSA: TRIBUTE TO MAUD POWELL Romance, Op. 23 by Beach Molly on the Shore by Grainger Songs My Mother Sang by Dvorak Musette from King Christian II by Sibelius Up the Ocklawaha, Op. 6 by Bauer “Minute” Waltz, Op. 64, No. 1 by Chopin Aria by Venth Palmgren: May Night by Palmgren Deep River, Op. 59, No. 10 by Coleridge-Taylor Humoreske, Op. 101, No. 7 by Dvorak Silver Threads Among the Gold by Danks Caprice on Dixie by Bellstedt, Jr. Romance by Huss Marionettes - Scherzo by Gilbert Four Rocky Mountain Sketches, Op. 11 by Burleigh Twilight Créspuscule from Poèmes Pastorale by Massenet Fantasia on Sousa Themes by Liebling Nobody Knows the Trouble I See by Johnson

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Biography - Cedille Records
Rolling Stone Magazine
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