Early life and education

A native of Santa Monica, California, violinist Tim Fain is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music

Curtis Institute of Music

The Curtis Institute of Music is a conservatory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that offers courses of study leading to a performance Diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in Opera, and Professional Studies Certificate in Opera. According to statistics compiled by U.S...

 in Philadelphia, where he studied with Victor Danchenko, and The Juilliard School, where he worked with Robert Mann

Robert Mann

Robert Mann is a musician, composer, and conductor.He was a founding member and first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet for 52 years, and mentor to younger generations of string musicians....

. Before Curtis, Fain studied with Eduard Schmieder

Eduard Schmieder

Eduard Schmieder is a violinist, teacher and conductor. He is a highly regarded violin pedagogue. Lord Yehudi Menuhin said, "Eduard Schmieder is one of the outstanding teachers of the violin...

 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

Richard Gere

Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor. He began acting in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and a starring role in Days of Heaven. He came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol...

 ’s violin in Bee Season

Bee Season

Bee Season is a 2000 novel by Myla Goldberg. It follows a young girl as she attempts to win the national spelling bee, and the repercussions of her success on the other members of her family.-Plot summary:...

. As The Washington Post

The Washington Post

The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...

 recently raved, “Fain has everything he needs for a first-rate career.”

Career

He made his New York concerto debut at Alice Tully Hall

Alice Tully Hall

Alice Tully Hall is a concert hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. It is named for Alice Tully, a New York performer and philanthropist whose donations assisted in the construction of the hall...

 with Gerard Schwarz

Gerard Schwarz

Gerard Schwarz is an American conductor. He was music director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 2011.In 2007 Schwarz was named music director of the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina, having served as principal conductor since 2005...

 and the New York Chamber Symphony

New York Chamber Symphony

The New York Chamber Symphony was an American chamber orchestra based in New York City. It was active from 1977 to 2002.It was founded in 1977 by its founding music director Gerard Schwarz, and Omus Hirshbein. Its original name was the Y Chamber Symphony, and it was the resident ensemble at the...

, and at Lincoln Center ’s Mostly Mozart Festival with the Orchestra of St. Luke's

Orchestra of St. Luke's

The Orchestra of St. Luke's is an American chamber orchestra based in New York City.It was founded in the summer of 1979 at the Caramoor International Music Festival in Katonah, New York....

. Performing works from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Richard Danielpour

Richard Danielpour

Richard Danielpour is an American composer.-Biography:Danielpour is born of Persian/Jewish descent. He studied at Oberlin College and the New England Conservatory of Music, and later at the Juilliard School of Music, where he received a DMA in composition in 1986...

 and Philip Glass

Philip Glass

Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...

, he has been soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is a professional American symphony orchestra based in Baltimore, Maryland.In September 2007, Maestra Marin Alsop led her inaugural concerts as the Orchestra’s twelfth music director, making her the first woman to head a major American orchestra.The BSO Board...

, National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico

National Symphony Orchestra (Mexico)

The National Symphony Orchestra is the most important classical music and symphonic ensemble in Mexico. With its origins traced back as 1881, it is the second oldest symphony orchestra in the American continent along with the Boston Symphony Orchestra...

 and Oxford Symphony Orchestra, and with the Brooklyn Philharmonic

Brooklyn Philharmonic

The Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, commonly known as the Brooklyn Philharmonic, is an American orchestra based in the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City...

. He appeared as soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble

Philip Glass Ensemble

The Philip Glass Ensemble is a musical group founded by composer Philip Glass in 1968 to serve as a performance outlet for his experimental minimalist music. The Ensemble's instrumentation became a hallmark of Glass' early minimalist style...

 at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

 in a concert version of Einstein on the Beach

Einstein on the Beach

Einstein on the Beach is an opera that premiered on July 25, 1976 at the Avignon Festival in France, scored and written by Philip Glass and designed and directed by theatrical producer Robert Wilson. It also contains writings by Christopher Knowles, Samuel M. Johnson and Lucinda Childs...

, and gave a special performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto

Violin Concerto (Beethoven)

Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, was written in 1806.The work was premiered on 23 December 1806 in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. Beethoven wrote the concerto for his colleague Franz Clement, a leading violinist of the day, who had earlier given him helpful advice on...

 at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. Other recent and upcoming performances include appearances with the Champaign Urbana Symphony Orchestra

Champaign Urbana Symphony Orchestra

The Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra is a professional orchestra located in the Champaign-Urbana Metropolitan Area in central Illinois. The Orchestra is the Professional Orchestra in Residence at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of the University of Illinois at...

, the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra

Wheeling Symphony Orchestra

The Wheeling Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Wheeling, West Virginia. Since its founding in 1929, the orchestra has mostly performed at the Capitol Music Hall. But in May 2007, the "Capitol" closed its doors unexpectedly, forcing the Symphony to look for a new home. Temporary...

, Illinois Symphony Orchestra and the Maryland Symphony Orchestra

Maryland Symphony Orchestra

The Maryland Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1982 by a small group of Washington County, Maryland civic leaders and music lovers. From its beginnings through the conclusion of its sixteenth season in 1997 - 1998, artistic leadership was provided by internationally acclaimed horn vituoso Barry...

, as well as recitals for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society is a non-profit chamber music and recital forum. It was created, in 1986, by Anthony Checchia and Philip Maneval, its Artistic Director and Executive Director respectively...

 and in Utah, Maryland, Syracuse and elsewhere throughout the United States.

He has appeared in recital at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw

Concertgebouw

The Concertgebouw is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch term "concertgebouw" literally translates into English as "concert building"...

, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum or Fenway Court, as the museum was known during Isabella Stewart Gardner's lifetime, is a museum in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located within walking distance of the Museum of Fine Arts and near the Back Bay Fens...

, the Kennedy Center, Mexico's Festival de Musica de Camara in San Miguel de Allende

San Miguel de Allende

San Miguel de Allende is a city and municipality located in the far eastern part of the state of Guanajuato in central Mexico. It is 274 km from Mexico City and 97 km from the state capital of Guanajuato...

, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, New York’s Kosciuszko Foundation

Kosciuszko Foundation

Kosciuszko Foundation is a charitable foundation based in New York City. It was created by Stephen Mizwa to fund programs that promote Polish-American intellectual and artistic exchange.-History:...

, and California's Carmel Mozart Society, at the University of Georgia

University of Georgia

The University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...

, San Diego Art Institute

San Diego Art Institute

The San Diego Art Institute’s “Museum of the Living Artist”, with its main gallery located in historic Balboa Park, is a Center for the Visual Arts for the Southern California /Baja California region. The institute functions much like a municipal gallery for the city/county...

, University of California at Davis, Boston’s Ives Festival, Alice Tully Hall

Alice Tully Hall

Alice Tully Hall is a concert hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. It is named for Alice Tully, a New York performer and philanthropist whose donations assisted in the construction of the hall...

 and the 92nd Street Y

92nd Street Y

92nd Street Y is a multifaceted cultural institution and community center located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States, at the corner of E. 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Its full name is 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association...

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As a chamber musician, Tim Fain has performed at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York’s Bargemusic

Bargemusic

Bargemusic, formally known as Bargemusic, Ltd. is a classical music venue and cultural icon in Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 1977, it is housed on a converted coffee barge moored at Fulton Ferry Landing on the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge....

, Chamber Music Northwest http://www.cmnw.org/index.php and the Ravinia Festival, Spoleto Festival (Italy), Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival in Bridgehampton, New York, was founded in 1984 by New Zealand-born flutist Marya Martin and her husband, Manhattan businessman Ken Davidson. The festival presents thirteen concerts of chamber music from the end of July to the end of August every summer, and...

, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is a six week long summer Festival of chamber music held annually in July and August and located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was founded in 1972 and presented its first series of concerts in 1973. Well-known musicians and young performers appear each season in...

, Caramoor International Music Festival

Caramoor International Music Festival

The Caramoor International Music Festival is a summer music festival founded in 1945 that is held on the estate of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts Inc., which includes a Mediterranean-style stucco villa and is located about north of New York City in Katonah, New York.The Caramoor...

, Bard Music Festival http://fishercenter.bard.edu/bmf/2009/, Lucerne Festival for Classical Music (Switzerland), Vail Valley Music Festival http://www.vailmusicfestival.org/, Moab Music Festival, and Martha’s Vineyard Festival. He has toured nationally with [Marlboro on Tour]http://www.marlboromusic.org/marlboroontour_schedule.html, and the Rossetti String Quartet http://www.colbertartists.com/ArtistBio.asp?ID=35.

Fain has appeared onstage with the New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...

 alongside the dancers in the company’s acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

 ’s “Double Aria,” with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Seán Curran Company, and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is an American dance company based out of Harlem in New York City. Founded in 1983 by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, the company made its debut performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with the world premiere of Intuitive Momentum with lauded drummer...

 in the U.S. and abroad. He also has worked with jazz pianist Ethan Iverson

Ethan Iverson

Ethan Iverson is a pianist, composer, and critic best known for his work in the postmodern jazz trio The Bad Plus, with bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King....

, and appeared at the Jazz Standard http://192.220.10.254/red/index.html with composer and saxophonist Patrick Zimmerli http://patrickzimmerli.com/ and at The Cutting Room http://www.thecuttingroomnyc.com/ with composer Daniel Bernard Roumain

Daniel Bernard Roumain

Daniel Bernard Roumain is a classically trained composer, performer, violinist, and band-leader noted for blending funk, rock, hip-hop and classical music into an energetic and experiential sonic form. DBR is of Haitian-American heritage and he attended Dillard Center for the Arts in Fort...

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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.

Awards and honors

• 2006: Up-and-Coming Young Musicians, Symphony magazine
• Young Concert Artists International Award
• 2007: Avery Fisher Career Grant
• 2007: "Pick of Up and Coming Musicians", The Strad
  The Strad (magazine)
  The Strad is a monthly classical music magazine about string instruments, including cellists, violinists, and violists.The magazine offers practical advice on technique, profiles of leading performers, master classes by some of the great teachers in the world and the craft of instrument making such...
  
  

External links

WEB SITES:

• http://www.dworkincompany.com/html/fain/green_room_fain.html
• http://www.timfain.com/

ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS:

• http://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=7C548B28-14D1-13A2-9FDEA33BC03E8A9A
• http://www.bsomusic.org/res/multimedia/timfaininterview.pdf
• Tim Fain and Philip Glass at Ravello Festival 2011

REVIEWS:

• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/02/AR2007120201952.html
• http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/11/arts/music/11fain.html