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Violinist Rachel Barton Pine — an exclusive interview from The Strad’s archive, November 2008

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Ahead of her solo London debut in 2008, the American violinist tells Michael Quinn how she has forged her successful solo career despite early setbacks

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Rachel Barton Pine features on the cover of the November 2024 issue of The Strad. Read the feature here

Most of us wait for years, some of us for an entire lifetime, before finding our ‘true love’. A few of us never find it at all. Rachel Barton found hers at the tender age of three.

She remembers sitting in church one Sunday and watching some older girls playing the violin. She was suddenly smitten…

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