Today at Noon-1 p.m.at Academy for Innovative Studies, 2319 Stringtown Rd.
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Please enter through Door #6 accessed via Diamond Ave. Please refer to the attachment on where to park and enter the building.
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World-renowned classical violin soloist Rachel Barton Pine will travel to Evansville to participate in two performances in front of approximately 1,200 EVSC strings students on Tuesday, February 25. Later that evening, Pine soloes with the University of Evansville Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. at the Victory Theatre.
During her school presentation, Pine will perform solo works for violin and speak with students about how to listen to classical music. She will demonstrate how classical music can be just as entertaining as metal music, and she will encourage each student to find his or her own path towards living a life filled with music.
Rachel Barton Pine is celebrated as a leading interpreter of great classical and contemporary masterworks. Pine started playing the violin at age three after hearing three young women playing the instrument at her church. She has appeared as a soloist with many of the world’s most prestigious ensembles, including the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, and the Royal Philharmonic, and has released 38 albums.
Having grown up in a financially struggling household, her Rachel Barton Pine Foundation (RBP Foundation) works to eliminate hidden obstacles in classical music, including by offering grants to cover expenses not addressed by traditional scholarships and loaning quality instruments to deserving artists. The RBP Foundation Music by Black Composers initiative cultivates diversity in classical music. Since young people seldom have the opportunity to study and perform classical music written by Black composers, over the past 15 years the Foundation has collected more than 900 works by more than 350 Black composers from the 18th-21st Centuries, much of which has not been in print. Recently, the RBP Foundation released MBC Violin Volume I, the first in a series of books of sheet music exclusively by Black classical composers, as well as the RBP Foundation Coloring Book of Black Composers.
