| Tim Fain | |
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| Instruments | Violin |
| Website | http://www.timfain.com/ |
Tim Fain is an American violinist.
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A native of Santa Monica, California, violinist Tim Fain is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied with Victor Danchenko, and The Juilliard School, where he worked with Robert Mann. Before Curtis, Fain studied with Eduard Schmieder in Los Angeles. The “charismatic young violinist with a matinee idol profile, strong musical instincts, and first rate chops” (Boston Globe) was featured as the sound of Richard Gere ’s violin in Bee Season. As The Washington Post recently raved, “Fain has everything he needs for a first-rate career.”
He made his New York concerto debut at Alice Tully Hall with Gerard Schwarz and the New York Chamber Symphony, and at Lincoln Center ’s Mostly Mozart Festival with the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Performing works from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Richard Danielpour and Philip Glass, he has been soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico and Oxford Symphony Orchestra, and with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. He appeared as soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of Einstein on the Beach, and gave a special performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. Other recent and upcoming performances include appearances with the Champaign Urbana Symphony Orchestra, the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Symphony Orchestra and the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, as well as recitals for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and in Utah, Maryland, Syracuse and elsewhere throughout the United States.
He has appeared in recital at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Kennedy Center, Mexico's Festival de Musica de Camara in San Miguel de Allende, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, New York’s Kosciuszko Foundation, and California's Carmel Mozart Society, at the University of Georgia, San Diego Art Institute, University of California at Davis, Boston’s Ives Festival, Alice Tully Hall and the 92nd Street Y.
As a chamber musician, Tim Fain has performed at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York’s Bargemusic, Chamber Music Northwest [1] and the Ravinia Festival, Spoleto Festival (Italy), Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Caramoor International Music Festival, Bard Music Festival [2], Lucerne Festival for Classical Music (Switzerland), Vail Valley Music Festival [3], Moab Music Festival, and Martha’s Vineyard Festival. He has toured nationally with [Marlboro on Tour][4], and the Rossetti String Quartet [5].
Fain has appeared onstage with the New York City Ballet alongside the dancers in the company’s acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepied ’s “Double Aria,” with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Seán Curran Company, and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in the U.S. and abroad. He also has worked with jazz pianist Ethan Iverson, and appeared at the Jazz Standard [6] with composer and saxophonist Patrick Zimmerli [7] and at The Cutting Room [8] with composer Daniel Bernard Roumain.
In addition to his performance of traditional works, he also has commissioned and performs the work of 20th and 21st century composers. According to Strings Magazine, he cites "Bjork and Beethoven as two of [his] major influences.[1]
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