In both art and life, violinist Rachel Barton Pine has an extraordinary ability to connect with  people. Celebrated as a leading interpreter of great classic and contemporary works, her  performances combine her innate gift for emotional communication and her scholarly  fascination with historical research. She performs with the world’s leading orchestras including  the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, and the  Chicago, Vienna and Detroit Symphony Orchestras.  

Pine has been involved in and committed to historically informed performances of early music  since age 14. Gramophone has declared her “a most accomplished Baroque violinist, fully the  equal of the foremost specialists.” She has also studied extensively and performs on the viola  d’amore, renaissance violin, and medieval rebec.

She has appeared as soloist with Apollo’s Fire, the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Baroque  Band, and Ars Antigua, and has performed concertos with Nicholas McGegan, Jeannette Sorrell,  and Frans Brüggen. She has led play-conduct programs of baroque concertos and orchestral  repertoire with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Columbus and Seattle Symphonies, and the  Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Her recording “Vivaldi: The Complete Viola d'amore Concertos,”  recorded with Ars Antigua on Cedille Records, is featured in the Oscar-winning film “The  Favourite.”  

Pine has performed period-instrument recitals for the Frick Collection; Columbia University’s  Miller Theatre; Dumbarton Oaks; Early Music Houston; Seattle Early Music; San Diego Early  Music; Early Music in Columbus; Great Lakes Baroque; the Montreal Chamber Music Festival; the  Viola da Gamba Society of America Conclave; the University of Chicago; the Music Institute of  Chicago; the Boston, Madison, Indianapolis, and Chicago Early Music Festivals; the Chamber  Music Societies of Buffalo, Detroit, and Salt Lake; WFMT Radio; and OurConcerts.live. She has  been a guest artist at the Valley of the Moon Music Festival for historically informed chamber  music performances of romantic period music. In addition, she has the distinction of having given  the first ever baroque violin performance at Marlboro Music. 

Pine frequently performs with harpsichordist Jory Vinikour and with her chamber group Trio  Settecento, with violoncello and viola da gamba player John Mark Rozendaal and keyboardist  David Schrader. She has released “J.S. Bach: The Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord” with  Vinikour. Albums with Trio Settecento include the complete Handel Violin Sonatas, a 4-disc set 

entitled “Grand Tour” surveying 17th and 18th Century music from Italy, France, Germany, and  England, and a complete recording of Francesco Maria Veracini’s monumental Opus 2, ‘Sonate  Accademiche’. 

Other chamber music collaborators include leading artists such as Luc Beausejour, Elizabeth  Blumenstock; Paul Cienniwa, David Douglass, Marilyn McDonald, Robert Mealy, Hopkinson  Smith, Elizabeth Wallfisch, and Elizabeth Wright, and ensembles including the Callipygian Players,  the Newberry Consort, and Temple of Apollo. 

Pine is the only American to ever receive the Gold Medal at the J.S. Bach International Violin  Competition in Leipzig, Germany. At age 17, she remains the youngest ever winner. She has given  many recitals of Bach’s complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in a single evening. The  Washington Post called her concert at the National Gallery “as astonishing and joyful a  performance of all three sonatas and three partitas as I’ve ever heard,” adding that her spoken  comments displayed “consummate scholarship delivered with humor and modesty.” Her solo  Bach performances have also been featured on American Public Media’s Performance Today and  National Public Radio’s Tiny Desk. She recorded all of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin  on her album “Testament” on Avie Records. Her edition of the music is published by Carl Fischer,  and “RBP on JSB,” her instructional video series discussing each movement, was released in  collaboration with The Violin Channel.  

As an advocate for early music education, Pine has given master classes and workshops for  Juilliard Historical Performance and Oberlin Conservatory’s Historical Performance Division. Her  many sessions on early music pedagogy at the American String Teachers Association National  Conference have included hosting the first symposium on pre-college early music education. She  coaches and performs with high school period-instrument orchestras including Davis High School  Baroque Ensemble and Stephenson High School Baroque Ensemble, and has served as Baroque  Ensemble Director of the Northwestern University Music Academy Strings. For more than a  decade, she has served on the

faculty of the Jink and Diddle School of Scottish Fiddling, a camp  devoted to historically informed interpretation of printed music from 18th Century Scotland. She  hosted the 15th Bi-Annual Congress of the International Viola d'Amore Society, and she has  served on the Board of Directors of Early Music America. 

Pine’s baroque violin (1770) and baroque viola d’amore (1774) were both made by Nicola  Gagliano using wood from the same tree, and both are in completely original, unaltered  condition.