AWARDS AND HONORS (SELECTED)
2010 – Winner, Great Performer of Illinois Award
2006 – Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award, Illinois Humanities Council
2006 – Inducted as Honorary Member, National Association of Negro Musicians
2002 – Nominee, Peabody Award (for radio performance featuring works of living composers)
1999 – Chicagoan of the Year, Chicago Tribune
1998 – Nominee, National Public Radio Heritage Award (for Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries album)
1997 – Classical Hall of Fame, Fanfare magazine
1996 – Second Prize, Stulberg National String Competition
1995 – Chicagoan of the Year, Chicago Magazine
1993 – Paganini Caprice Prize, Paganini International Violin Competition, Genoa, Italy
1993 – Bronze Medal, Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition, Brussels, Belgium
1992 – Gold Medal, J.S. Bach International Violin Competition, Leipzig, Germany (first American and youngest winner)
1992 – Second Prize, Fritz Kreisler International Violin Competition, Vienna
1992 – Second Prize and Paganini Caprice Prize, Joseph Szigeti International Violin Competition, Budapest
1990 – First Prize, Society of American Musicians Music Contest, Young Artist Division
1989 – First Prize, Seventeen Magazine and General Motors National Concerto Competition
1985 – First Prize, Chicago Symphony Orchestra/ Illinois Bell/ WTTW Illinois Young Performers Competition
NOTABLE APPEARANCES (SELECTED)
2009 – World premiere of the last movement of Samuel Barber’s lost 1928 Violin Sonata, at the Festival de Musique de Chambre de Montreal
2007 – Performance for the President of Ghana to celebrate Ghana’s 50th anniversary of independence
2005 – World premiere of a sonata fragment by Beethoven, on nationally-syndicated radio
2005 – Performance, Annual Musicale, Supreme Court of the United States
1997 – National Anthem, Chicago Cubs Inauguration of Interleague Play
1997 – Performance, Inaugural Dinner for Cardinal Francis George
1996 – Torchbearer, Olympic Torch Relay
1996 – Soloist with the Atlanta Symphony for the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games
1996 – National Anthem, Democratic National Convention
1995 – National Anthem, Chicago Bulls playoff game
1983 – Performance, the Vatican for Pope John Paul II
1985 – First performances as soloist with Chicago Symphony
1982 – Debut as soloist with orchestra, Chicago String Ensemble
DISTINCTIONS
2014 – Helps to accept a posthumous Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award on behalf of Maud Powell, the first internationally-acclaimed American violinist, after successfully campaigning the Recording Academy on Powell’s behalf
2013 – Violin Lullabies debuts at #1 on the Billboard Classical chart
2012 – Becomes the only living artist and first woman to join legendary musicians Fritz Kreisler and Jascha Heifetz as part of Carl Fischer’s Masters Collection Series, with publication of her compositions and arrangements in the Rachel Barton Pine Collection
2009 – Music advisor and editor of Maud Powell Favorites, the only published compilation of music dedicated to, commissioned by, or closely associated with the first native-born American violinist to achieve international recognition
2007 – Top Ten Classical Concerts of 2007, La Presse and Le Devoir (for performance of the Bach Six Sonatas and Partitas at the Festival de Musique de Chambre de Montreal)
2002 – Music Institute of Chicago names Rachel Barton Pine Violin Chair – currently held by Almita and Roland Vamos
BOARD AFFILIATIONS
- Life Trustee, Board of Trustees, Music Institute of Chicago
- Member, Classical Music Committee, Chicago Chapter, Board of Governors, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
- Member, Board of Trustees, Chicago Classical Recording Foundation
- Member, Board of Trustees, Sphinx Organization
- Member, Advisory Board, Maud Powell Society for Music and Education
- Member, Board of Directors, Early Music America
- Member, Artistic Advisory Board, International Music Foundation