Rachel Calin began playing the bass at the early age of nine, and has since been called a bassist that “deserves a place in the sun,” and “a lyrical soloist in command of her instrument” by The New York Times. In 1994 she won the Juilliard Concerto Competition, making her concerto debut in Alice Tully hall at Lincoln Center with the Juilliard Orchestra, and subsequently has made solo appearances with Sejong, the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, and has given numerous recitals throughout North America.
As a chamber musician, Miss Calin has appeared in concert throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. She can be heard on NPR’s ‘Performance Today’, both in live and recorded broadcasts. Miss Calin has performed frequently with the New York Philharmonic, at Live from Lincoln Center, the Aspen Music Festival, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and has recorded numerous movie and commercial soundtracks. She has given the world premieres of works by composers such as Lera Auerbach and Mark O’Connor, and has performed with many new music ensembles including the New Juilliard Ensemble, Sequitur, the Composers Concordance, and Mosaic.
Miss Calin received a BM and MM from The Juilliard School, where she studied with both Homer Mensch and Eugene Levinson and was the recipient of an instrument loan from the Karr Foundation. Recent concert appearances include performances at Wigmore Hall, Salle Cortot, Santa Fe Chamber Music Series, Kennedy Center, Taipei International Music Festival, Philadelphia Museum of Art Chamber Music Series, Tongyeong International Music Festival, Seoul Arts Center, Carnegie Hall, CNN’s American Morning with Paula Zahn, Live From Lincoln Center, and in a live broadcast from NPR’s Washington DC studios for Performance Today. Currently on faculty at the Perlman Music Program, Miss Calin performs on a Bolognese double bass crafted by Matteo Minozzi in 1767.
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