Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra performance features the impressive technique of Violinist Rachel Barton Pine

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[October 23, 2015]  DECATUR  – The Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra (MDSO) will continue its 2015-16 performance season on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. in Kirkland Fine Arts Center. The performance will feature international concert violinist Rachel Barton Pine.

The concert will include a performance of Sibelius' "Symphony No. 1" and Beethoven's "Violin Concerto," featuring a cadenzas by Rachel Barton Pine.

"The Beethoven is the quintessential violin concerto, perfectly poised, tuneful, and ranging in expression from eloquence to deep introversion to boundless joy," says Dr. Michael Luxner, music director and conductor of the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra. "Rachel plays it to perfection. She is even playing her own cadenzas."

Dr. Luxner noted, "Sibelius is one of the great masters of the symphony, and we'll open the concert with the Sibelius First, a lush late-Romantic work of power, passion, and scope."

Heralded as a leading interpreter of the great classical masterworks, international concert violinist Rachel Barton Pine thrills audiences with her dazzling technique, lustrous tone and emotional honesty. With an infectious joy in music-making and a passion for connecting historical research to performance, Pine transforms audiences' experiences of classical music.

Pine has appeared as soloist with many of the world's most prestigious ensembles, including the Chicago Symphony; the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic; and the Netherlands Radio Kamer Filharmonie.

Pine has a prolific discography of 30 CDs on the Avie, Cedille, Warner Classics, and Dorian labels. She recently celebrated the release of her "Mozart: Complete Violin Concerto, Sinfonia Concertante," with conductor Sir Neville Marriner and The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields on Avie, and in September 2015 Cedille released her recording of "Vivaldi: The Complete Viola D'Amore Concertos" with Ars Antigua.

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Pine started The Rachel Barton Pine Foundation which assists young artists through various projects, including the Instrument Loan Program, Grants for Education and Career, Global HeartStrings (supporting musicians in developing countries), and a curricular series in development with the University of Michigan: The String Student's Library of Music by Black Composers.

 The concert will be preceded by a concert preview hosted by Millikin Coordinator of Musicology Joseph Matson from 6:45 to 7:10 p.m. in the Kirkland lecture room. The preview is free to concert ticket holders.

Tickets are available through the Kirkland Fine Arts Center Ticket Office by phone at 217.424.6318 or online at kirklandfinearts.com. Kirkland Ticket Office hours are Monday – Friday from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. A $2.50 fee will be charged for credit card purchases. This is a per transaction fee, not per ticket, and applies to online and Ticket Office orders.

Concerts of the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra are partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the Symphony Orchestra Guild of Decatur.

For further information, please contact Millikin University Media Relations Coordinator Dane Lisser at 217.420.6636 or dlisser@millikin.edu.

[Media Relations, Millikin University]

 

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