Pasadena’s California Philharmonic Orchestra (CalPhil) will present “Tales as Old as Time: Lords, Thrones, Sorcerers – Mystic Worlds, Enchanting Dreams” on Monday, June 28, as part of the orchestra’s 2021 Summer Concert Series at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
CalPhil will feature violin virtuoso Elizabeth Pitcairn as she performs on the actual Red Violin, the Mendelssohn Stradivarius.
Pitcairn has earned a reputation as one of America’s most beloved soloists. She appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music and in 2000 gave her New York debut at Alice Tully Hall with the New York String Orchestra.
She has since performed at Carnegie Hall, The Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Fisher Center and the Kimmel Center.
Pitcairn attended the Marlboro Music Festival and is a graduate of USC where she later taught alongside her former teacher, the renowned violin professor Robert Lipsett, and the Colburn School in Los Angeles. Her former teachers include Julian Meyer, Sylvia Ahramjian, Jascha Brodsky and Shmuel Ashkenasi.
The artist performs with one of the world’s most legendary instruments, the Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius of 1720, which is said to have inspired the Academy Award–winning film, “The Red Violin.”
Pitcairn is featured on the 10th Anniversary edition of “The Red Violin” DVD in a special feature called “The Auction Block.” Named the Red Stradivarius violin while in the possession of Joseph Joachim, the instrument was a gift from her grandfather in 1990 at Christie’s Auction in London.
For CalPhil’s presentation, Pitcairn will be performing pieces by Paul Dukas, Alan Menken, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and John Paul Corigliano.
To follow the schedule for CalPhil’s 2021 Summer Concert Series, visit https://calphil.com/2020-
For more information, call (626) 304-0333.
