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Tim Fain
Birth nameTimothy Fain
OriginSanta Monica, California, United States
Occupation(s)Violinist, producer
InstrumentViolin
Years active1999-present
LabelsNaxos

Tim Fain is an American violinist, best known for his performances in the movie Black Swan and his work with American composer Philip Glass.

Early life and education

A native of Santa Monica, California, violinist Tim Fain attended the Royal Conservatory of Music in London at the age of 11 and Crossrads School for the Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied with Victor Danchenko,[1] and The Juilliard School, where he worked with Robert Mann.[1]

Career

After winning the Avery Fisher Career Grant,[2] Fain performed on-screen and in the soundtrack of the movie Black Swan[3] as well as ghost-playing for Richard Gere in the Fox Searchlight movie Bee Season. In November 2006, Fain played a recital with accompanist Richard Bishop at the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City.[4] In December 2007, Fain performed with conductor Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Aaron Jay Kernis's violin concerto Lament and Prayer.[5]

With pianist Bruce Brubaker, Fain performed Philip Glass's Pendulum, a one-movement piece for violin and piano, at the composer's 75th birthday party concert in New York at (Le) Poisson Rouge.[6]

On March 27, 2015, Fain conducted Max Richter's recomposed version of Vivaldi´s Four Seasons alongside the Spanish National Orchestra at Madrid's Reina Sofía Museum.

In November 2013, Fain and pianist Pei-Yao Wang performed selections from Richard Danielpour's River of Light and Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach at a Philadelphia Chamber Music Society recital.[7]

On July 4, 2015, Fain performed for the 14th Dalai Lama on his 80th Birthday at the Peak Mind Foundation Summit.[8][9]

In December 2015, Fain performed works by Schumann, Lasser, and Bach alongside Simone Dinnerstein at National Sawdust.[10]

In April 2016, Tim collaborated with Jacob Marshall, Forbes Magazine, and director David Lobser to create a world-first VR experience synced with a live performance at Jerusalem’s Tower of David.[11]

Fain performed Glass’ Double Concerto for Violin and Cello on August 15th 2018 at the Cabrillo Festival.

Fain tours worldwide with composer/pianist Philip Glass in duo recital performances.[12][13]

Frequently collaborating with composer/pianist Nicholas Britell,[14] Fain performed and co-arranged[15] the onscreen music in 12 Years A Slave,[16] and is featured on the soundtrack album: "Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave".[17] His playing is also heard in the soundtrack to Free State of Jones[18] and he also worked very closely with Britell on Oscar and Golden-Globe-winning film Moonlight performing and recording the score.[19] On January 10, 2017, Fain joined Britell, director Barry Jenkins, and cast members Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, and Trevante Rhodes for a sold out Moonlight screening and live film score event with the Wordless Music Orchestra conducted by Ryan McAdams at the Million Dollar Theater in Los Angeles.[20]

On December 2, 2017, Fain teamed up with Nicholas Britell to premiere their multimedia film music recital program “Once Upon a Score” at the Ravinia Festival.[21]

On December 8, 2017, Fain performed Philip Glass’s Violin Concerto No. 2, “The American Four Seasons" with the American Composers Orchestra at their 40th Anniversary concert at Carnegie Hall.[22][23]

Fain composed and performed on the soundtrack to Graham Sacks’ 4-part VR series Interpretation of Dreams. Released in May 2018, each episode of the series re-imagines a case study from Sigmund Freud's 1899 book of the same name.[24]

Fain played on the titular track of Christina Aguilera's 2018 album, Liberation.

At 2018's Scotia Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Fain again performed alongside composer and pianist Philip Glass.[25]

Fain appeared at Tucson, Arizona's Fox Tucson Theatre in February 2019 to perform Portals, his "live concert/video hybrid exploration of the human longing for connection in the digital age".[26]

Fain performed works by Bach, Glass, and Mozart at Scotia Festival 2019, alongside cellist Denise Djokic and pianist Andrew Armstrong.[27]

Fain appeared at the 2019 KIND gala, providing musical accompaniment to poetry and rap performances by a Congolese refugee and a Salvadoran client of the charity.[28]

Fain contributed violin to composer West Dylan Thordson's score for M. Night Shyamalan's 2019 psychological superhero thriller, Glass.[29]

Fain maintains a strong professional interest in the intersection between music and technology, and gave a TED talk in 2019 on "How Virtual Reality Can Help Make Our Stories (and Music!) Better."[30]

Discography

  • Arches: Music Then to Now (Image Recordings, 2008)
  • Philip Glass: The Concerto Project, Vol. IV, (Orange Mountain Music, 2010)
  • Black Swan: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Sony, 2011)[3]
  • River of Light: American Short Works for Violin and Piano (Naxos, 2011)
  • Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave (Columbia Records, 2013)[17]
  • "Variation", Tim Fain plays Michael Shapiro's Peace Variations (Paumanok, 2014)
  • Tim Fain plays Philip Glass: Partita for solo violin (Orange Mountain Music, 2015)
  • Resonance (single) (2015)
  • First Loves (VIA Records, 2016)
  • Moonlight (original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2016)
  • Michael Shapiro: Second Sonata for Violin and Piano, Tim Fain and Steven Beck (Paumanok, 2017)
  • Lou Harrison: Violin Concerto, Grand Duo & Double Music (Naxos, 2017)
  • Club Diamond: Original Theater Soundtrack (Blind Bay Records, 2019)

Awards and honors

  • 2006: Up-and-Coming Young Musicians, Symphony magazine[2]
  • Young Concert Artists International Award[2]
  • 2007: Avery Fisher Career Grant[2]
  • 2007: "Pick of Up and Coming Musicians", The Strad[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "This weekend at Maverick Concerts, Jazz piano, & solo violin | Roll Online". Rollmagazine.com. August 7, 2012. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e Haller, Sarah. "Q & A with Timothy Fain" (PDF). Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Violinist Tim Fain talks 'Black Swan' and Philip Glass collaboration | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times". Latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 18, 2011. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  4. ^ Midgette, Anna (November 11, 2006). "A Solo Artist Who Hits All the Notes". The New York Times. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
  5. ^ Malone, Andrew (December 3, 2007). "Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Brings Splash of Summer". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
  6. ^ Kozinn, Allan (January 30, 2012). "A Prolific Composer Pauses, Briefly, for His Birthday". The New York Times. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
  7. ^ Stearns, David Patrick (November 5, 2013). "Violinist Tim Fain presents an unusual buffet". Philly News. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
  8. ^ "Forest Whitaker Helps Dalai Lama Celebrate 80th Birthday At Star-Studded Event". Look to the Stars. July 7, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  9. ^ Tim Fain (October 31, 2015), Tim Fain performs for His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 80th Birthday, retrieved March 16, 2017
  10. ^ "Simone Dinnerstein Presents: Works by Phillip Lasser". National Sawdust. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  11. ^ Communications, Forbes Corporate. "Forbes Hosts Large-Scale Live Musical Performance Synced to VR to Cap Off Its Under 30 Summit EMEA". Forbes. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  12. ^ [1] Archived February 25, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ "Philip Glass and Tim Fain Concert at the Met Museum". Feastofmusic.com. April 21, 2012. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  14. ^ "How Moonlight's Composer Chopped and Screwed Classical Music". Vulture. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  15. ^ "Famed violinist to visit UND". Dakotastudent.com. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  16. ^ "Columbia Records to Release '12 Years a Slave' Soundtrack". Film Music Reporter. October 14, 2013. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
  17. ^ a b Obenson, Tambay A. (November 11, 2013). "Soundtrack Album For '12 Years a Slave' To Be Released By | Shadow and Act". Blogs.indiewire.com. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  18. ^ McConaughey, Matthew; Mbatha-Raw, Gugu; Ali, Mahershala; Russell, Keri (June 24, 2016), Free State of Jones, retrieved March 16, 2017
  19. ^ "Song Exploder: 'Moonlight' Composer Describes Process". NPR.org. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  20. ^ "Moonlight | Wordless Music". www.wordlessmusic.org. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  21. ^ "Ravinia Backstage: - All Posts - Tim Fain and Nicholas Britell Bring Wide(screen) sounds with "Once Upon a Score"". backstage.ravinia.org. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  22. ^ "American Composers Orchestra". www.carnegiehall.org. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  23. ^ "Review: Philip Glass, Easy to Mimic but Hard to Match". Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  24. ^ "Samsung Launches New Initiative "Pilot Season" to Ignite Exclusive Episodic VR Content in Samsung VR Video". Samsung US Newsroom. April 23, 2018. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  25. ^ Jehle, Allie (April 24, 2018). "Maestro Philip Glass returns to the Scotia Festival of Music | Halifax Magazine". Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  26. ^ "Portals – Tim Fain violin". Arizona Friends of Chamber Music. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  27. ^ Herald, The Chronicle. "Scotia Festival of Music Celebrating 40th anniversary in style | The Chronicle Herald". www.thechronicleherald.ca. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  28. ^ "Largest Yet: KIND 2019 Coming Together for Children Alone Gala Benefit Dinner". KIND. April 18, 2019. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  29. ^ "West Dylan Thordson Provides A Super Sonic Score For M. Night Shyamalan's GLASS". We Are Movie Geeks. January 14, 2019. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  30. ^ Tim Fain: How Virtual Reality Can Help Make Our Stories (and Music!) | Tim Fain | TEDxHieronymusPark, retrieved January 12, 2020
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