LOVE & WAR: BAROQUE STYLE Features Baroque Connoisseur Rachel Barton Pine

The superbly gifted violinist Rachel Barton Pine, the only American (and the youngest artist ever) to win the Gold Medal at the J. S. Bach International Violin Competition, displays her fabulous artistry and remarkable versatility in this extraordinary program of Baroque-period pearls. Barton will perform on violin and viola d'amore as well as conduct the program that includes:

Vivaldi: Concerto in D Major for Viola d'amore

Biber: Battalia

Handel: Concerto grosso in G Minor

Vivaldi: Concerto in D Minor for Viola d'amore and Orchestra

Zipoli: Battalia Imperiale

Pisendel: Imitation caractères de la danse

Locatelli: L'Arte del Violino ("The Harmonic Labyrinth")

The Columbus Symphony presents Love & War: Baroque Style at the Southern Theatre (21 E. Main St.) on Friday and Saturday, March 10 and 11, at 8pm. Tickets start at $10 and can be purchased at the CAPA Ticket Center (39 E. State St.), all Ticketmaster outlets, and www.ticketmaster.com. To purchase tickets by phone, please call (614) 228-8600 or (800) 745-3000. The CAPA Ticket Center will also be open two hours prior to each performance.

The 2016-17 Masterworks Series is made possible through the generous support of season sponsor Anne Melvin.

Prelude - Patrons are invited to join Christopher Purdy in the theatre at 7pm for a 30-minute, pre-concert discussion about the works to be performed.

Postlude - After the conclusion of the Friday program, patrons are encouraged to participate in a post-concert discussion with featured artist Rachel Barton Pine.

About guest artist Rachel Barton Pine

Celebrated as a leading interpreter of great classical and contemporary works, Rachel Barton Pine's performances combine her innate gift for emotional communication and her scholarly fascination with historical research. She plays with passion and conviction across an extensive repertoire, thrilling audiences with her dazzling technique, lustrous tone, and infectious joy in music-making. Pine is an avid performer of baroque, renaissance, and medieval music on baroque violin, viola d'amore, renaissance violin, and rebec. In May 2017, Avie Records will release Pine's Paganini a capella which includes her

performance of all 24 Paganini Caprices as well as others of Paganini's unaccompanied works. Pine will dedicate her 2018 Avie recording of the Elgar and Bruch violin concertos to Sir Neville Marriner, with whom she was originally scheduled to record the project. Pine and Sir Neville's Mozart: Complete Violin Concerto, Sinfonia Concertante with The Academy of St Martin in the Fields hit number three on the Billboard classical chart, while her Testament: Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by Johann Sebastian Bach (Avie, 2016) and Violin Lullabies (Cedille, 2013) both charted at number one. Pine has appeared as soloist with many of the world's most prestigious ensembles, including the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, and the Netherlands Radio Kamer Filharmonie. www.RachelBartonPine.com

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Photo credit: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

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