Rachel Barton Pine

“Pine displays a power and confidence that puts her in the top echelon.” The acclaimed American concert violinist Rachel Barton Pine thrills international audiences with her dazzling technique, lustrous tone, and emotional honesty. Pine performs with the world’s foremost orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, and the Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, and Vienna Symphony Orchestras. She has worked with renowned conductors that include Teddy Abrams, Marin Alsop, Daniel Barenboim, Semyon Bychkov, Stéphane Denève, Neeme Järvi, Christoph Eschenbach, Erich Leinsdorf, Nicholas McGegan, Zubin Mehta, Tito Muñoz, and John Nelson. As a chamber musician, Pine has performed with Jonathan Gilad, Clive Greensmith, Paul Neubauer, Jory Vinikour, William Warfield, Orion Weiss, and the Pacifica and Parker quartets. Recital and festival appearances have included Davos, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Marlboro, Ravinia, Salzburg, Bravo! Vail, and Wolf Trap. Highlights of Pine’s 2025-26 season include performances of the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica, the Glazunov Concerto with the Newport Symphony Orchestra, the Korngold Concerto with the Madison Symphony Orchestra, and the Bruch Concerto with Symphony d’Oro Rancho Cordova. At Summermusik, in Cincinnati, Pine gives the world premiere live performance of Malek Jandali’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, which she recently recorded with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra led by renowned conductor Marin Alsop (Cedille, 2023). She will also be in residence at the Johann Sebastian Bach International Competition in Leipzig, Germany, and will give recitals across the U.S., including at Duke University in all-Brahms program with Gilles Vonsattel, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and the National Music Museum in Vermillion, SD. Pine’s 2024-2025 and 2023-2024 seasons included a performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for its premiere of the violin concerto by José White, an Afro-Cuban composer whom Pine has long championed; the world premiere of Harry Stafylakis’ Violin Concerto with the Winnipeg Symphony; Billy Childs’ Violin Concerto No. 2 (written for her) with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Stéphane Denève at the Hollywood Bowl; the French premiere of Earl Maneein’s Dependent Arising (written for her) with the Orchestre National de Bretagne, and performances with the Puerto Rico Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, Mercury Chamber Orchestra, Toledo Symphony, National Symphony of Uruguay, Minas Gerais Philharmonic, and Kaohsiung Traditional Orchestra Taiwan at Festival X in Mikkeli, Finland. Pine has also substituted for fellow soloists on short notice for a number of concerts. Most notably, in 2021, with just 3.5 hours’ notice, she performed Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 at Ravinia with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop, replacing Midori, to critical acclaim. This season Pine releases the new album French Impressions: Chamber Music by Chausson & Tailleferre , her 25th release on Cedille Records, featuring the Pacifica Quartet and pianist Orion Weiss. In 2024, Cedille released Corelli Violin Sonatas, Op. 5 , in which Pine performs on violin and viola d’amore and improvises all her ornaments. The album also includes an audiobook-style spoken track of the program booklet, recorded by Pine herself. Dependent Arising , Pine’s previous album on Cedille (2023), revealed surprising confluences between classical music and heavy metal by pairing Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with Earl Maneein’s violin concerto Dependent Arising , written for Pine and performed with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. In 2022 Cedille released Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries: 25th Anniversary Edition , featuring Pine’s new recording o