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sai-national.org • Summer 2025 5 the label released Violin Concertos by Black Composers rough the Centuries: 25th Anniver- sary Edition, featuring Pine's new recording of Florence Price's Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Scoish National Orchestra and Jonathon Heyward, and reprisals of her 1997 recordings of masterworks by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1775), José White (1864), and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1899). In the 2023-24 season, Pine joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Stéphane Denève at the Hollywood Bowl for a performance of Billy Childs' Violin Concerto No. 2, wrien specially for her. She also performed with the Royal Scoish National Orchestra, Phoenix Sympho- ny, Mercury Chamber Orchestra, Toledo Symphony, National Symphony of Uruguay, and Minas Gerais Philharmonic. In recital, Pine appeared at the Kennedy Center, Ravinia Festival, and the Festival Internacional de Música de Guadalajara. Her early-music appearances included a performance with the Syracuse Orchestra and her daughter, Sylvia Pine; San Francisco Early Music Society with harpsichordist Jory Vinikour; and in Virginia with Trio Seecento. Pine's discography consists of over 40 recordings, including Blues Dialogues, with a program of blues-influenced classical works by 20th- and 21st-century Black composers (Mahew Hagle on piano); Dvořák and Khachaturian Violin Concertos (Teddy Abrams and the Royal Scoish National Orchestra); Brahms and Joachim Violin Concertos (Carlos Kalmar and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra), and Elgar and Bruch Violin Concertos (Andrew Lion and the BBC Symphony Orchestra). Pine and Sir Neville Marriner's Mozart: Complete Vio- lin Concertos, with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and her Bel Canto Paganini both charted at #3 on the classical charts. Testament: Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by Johann Sebastian Bach, and Violin Lullabies both debuted at #1. Pine frequently performs music by contem- porary composers, including major works wrien for her by Billy Childs, Mohammed Fairouz, Marcus Goddard, Earl Maneein, Shawn E. Okpebholo, Daniel Bernard Roumain, José Serebrier, and Augusta Read omas. In addition to her career as a soloist, she is an avid performer of baroque, renaissance, and medieval music on baroque violin, viola d'amore, renaissance violin, and rebec. 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. e violinist has appeared on The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, PBS NewsHour, Prairie Home Companion, NPR's Tiny Desk and All ings Considered, and Performance Today. She has been featured in e Wall Street Journal and e New York Times. She holds prizes from several of the world's leading competitions, including a gold medal at the 1992 J.S. Bach International Violin Competition. Pine writes her own cadenzas and performs many of her own arrangements. With the publica- tion of e Rachel Barton Pine Collection, she became the only living artist and first woman in Carl Fischer's Masters Collection series. During the pandemic, she performed the entire solo violin part of 24 different violin concertos, live and unaccompa- nied, for her weekly series "24 in 24: Concertos from the Inside." An active philanthropist, Pine has led the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation for over two decades. Early in her career, she noticed that young people learning classical music seldom have the opportunity to study and perform music wrien by Black composers. Since 2001, Pine and her Foundation's Music by Black Composers project have collected more than 900 works by over 450 Black composers from the 18th–21st centuries. Music by Black Composers curates free repertoire directories on its website and publishes print resources. In 2024 the project released Violin Volumes 2 and 3 for elementary-level students, the second installment in a series of pedagogical books of music exclusively by Black composers. e Rachel Barton Pine Foundation also assists young artists through its Instrument Loan Program and Grants for Education and Career. Pine has also served on the board of many non-profits, including the Sphinx Organization. She performs on the "ex-Bazzini, ex-Soldat" Joseph Guarnerius "del Gesù" (Cremona 1742), on lifetime loan from her anonymous patron. For more information, please visit www.rachelbartonpine.com. Natial Cvention Photo: Mike Canale Photo: Mike Canale P ianist Matthew Hagle's performances are often noted for their musical understanding, imaginative programming, and beauty of sound. The New York Times has described him as "a sensitive pianist," Clavier Magazine has praised the "rare clarity and sweetness" of his playing, and the Springfield (MA) Republican remarked he "played with unaffected brilliance and profound understanding." Matthew Hagle is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory (BM) and Yale University (MM, DMA), receiving faculty prizes in piano, accompanying, and music theory as well as a Fulbright Scholarship to study privately in London. He has studied with Claude Frank, Robert Weirich, Donald Currier, and Maria Curcio Diamand. A dedicated teacher of piano, music theory, and composition, Hagle's students have won prizes in local and national competitions. He is currently on the faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago serving as the director of the Musicianship program in addition to his teaching duties. The Philanthropies Benefit Concert will be held during Convention on Saturday, July 19.

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