Boyd Meets Girl
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 plays with passion and conviction, thrilling audiences worldwide with her dazzling technique, lustrous tone, and infectious joy in music-making. She solos with leading orchestrasincluding the Chicago and Vienna Symphonies, and the Philadelphia Orchestraand has performed on The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, and NPRs Tiny Desk.
She has led the Rachel Barton Pine (RBP) Foundation which assists young artists since 2001. Over the last 20 years, the RBP Foundations Music by Black Composers (MBC) project has collected more than 900 works by 450+ Black composers from the 18th21st centuries, curated free repertoire directories, and published print resources.