__FORCETOC__ Tim Fain is an

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violinist, best known for his performances in the movie ''

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'' and his work with American composer

Philip Glass Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimal music, minimalism, being built up fr ...

Early life and education

A native of

Santa Monica, California Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United Sta ...

, Fain is the son of Gordon and Margery Fain. Tim began studying

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

at age 7 with his father, a neurophysiologist at

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, and at age 10, he performed

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...

’s Spring Sonata for his 5th-grade classmates. While living with his family in

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during middle school, Fain studied under Haroutune Bedelian at the

Royal Conservatory of Music The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM), branded as The Royal Conservatory, is a non-profit music education institution and performance venue headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1886 by Edward Fisher (musician), Edward ...

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. After returning to the US for high school, Fain attended Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica. He also participated in a pre-college program for violin masterclasses and lessons at the

Colburn School The Colburn School is a private music school in Los Angeles with a focus on music and dance. It consists of four divisions: the Conservatory of Music, Music Academy, Community School of Performing Arts and the Dance Academy. It is located adjace ...

. He received formal higher education in music at the

Curtis Institute of Music The Curtis Institute of Music is a private conservatory in Philadelphia. It offers a performance diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in opera, and a Professional Studies Certificate in opera. All students attend on full scholarship. Hi ...

in Philadelphia and

The Juilliard School The Juilliard School ( ) is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City. Established in 1905, the school trains about 850 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music. It is widely regarded as one of the most elit ...

. During his education, Fain studied and collaborated under prominent musicians and pedagogues such as Victor Danchenko,

Felix Galimir Felix Galimir (May 20, 1910, Vienna – November 10, 1999, New York) was an Austrian-born American violinist and music teacher. Born in a Sephardic Jewish family Vienna; his first language was Ladino. Allan Kozinn,"Felix Galimir, 89, a Violini ...

Richard Goode Richard Goode (born June 1, 1943) is an American classical pianist who is especially known for his interpretations of Mozart and Beethoven. Early life Goode was born in the East Bronx, New York. He studied piano with Elvira Szigeti, Claude Fra ...

and

Robert Mann Robert Nathaniel Mann (July 19, 1920 – January 1, 2018) was a violinist, composer, Conductor (music), conductor, and founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet, as well as a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music. Mann, the fir ...

. As a young instrumentalist, Fain launched his career with

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and was awarded the

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Live Performances

In 2007, Fain performed

Aaron Jay Kernis Aaron Jay Kernis (born January 15, 1960) is a Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning American composer serving as a member of the Yale School of Music faculty. Kernis spent 15 years as the music advisor to the Minnesota Orchestra and as Direct ...

' violin concerto Lament and Prayer with the

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra based in Baltimore, Maryland. The Baltimore SO has its principal residence at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, where it performs more than 130 concerts a year. In 2005, it bega ...

, conducted by

Marin Alsop Marin Alsop ( �mɛər.ɪn ˈæːl.sɑːp born October 16, 1956) is an American conductor, the first woman to win the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting and the first conductor to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She is music director laureate ...

. He performed Philip Glass' Concerto No. 2, "The American Four Seasons" with the

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, conducted by Christoph König. Fain reunited in 2006 with musicians from his alma mater, Curtis Symphony Orchestra, to perform Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D Major, conducted by

Otto-Werner Mueller Otto-Werner Mueller (23 June 1926 – 25 February 2016) was a German-born conducting, conductor. He was a professor of conducting at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, as well as at the Juilliard School in New York City. Mueller was bo ...

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at the

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. Fain was a member of

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from 2000 to 2002 and has performed with the society on multiple occasions since. In 2015 he performed works by

Schumann Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career a ...

, Lasser, and

Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...

alongside

Simone Dinnerstein Simone Andrea Dinnerstein (born September 18, 1972) is an American classical pianist. Education Dinnerstein was born in New York City, New York, United States to a Jewish family. She is the daughter of Renee and Simon Dinnerstein. She studied in ...

National Sawdust National Sawdust is a nonprofit music producer and venue in Brooklyn, New York with the goal of providing "composers and musicians across genres... a setting where they are given unprecedented support and critical resources essential to create and ...

. Fain has performed several other times with Dinnerstein. In 2015 Fain guest-conducted and performed the solo violin for

Max Richter Max Richter (; ; born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer and pianist. He works within postminimalist and contemporary classical styles. Richter is classically trained, having graduated in composition from the University of Edinbur ...

’s Vivaldi Recomposed and

Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread a ...

's Four Seasons with the

Spanish National Orchestra The Orquesta Nacional de España (Spanish National Orchestra) is a symphonic orchestra that is based in Madrid, Spain. History Although the orchestra originated as of 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, it was legally founded in 1940, by the mergin ...

at the

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. Also in 2015, Fain performed for the

14th Dalai Lama The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: ''bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho''); né Lhamo Thondup), known as ...

on his 80th Birthday at the Peak Mind Foundation Summit. Fain appeared at the 2019 KIND gala alongside

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host

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, performing musical accompaniment to poetry and rap performances by former refugees from the Congo and

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. In 2017, he performed Philip Glass’s Violin Concerto No. 2, “The American Four Seasons", with the

American Composers Orchestra The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) is an American orchestra administratively based in New York City, specialising in contemporary American music. The ACO gives concerts at various concert venues in New York City, including: * Zankel Hall at ...

at their 40th Anniversary concert at

Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall ( ) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is at 881 Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street (Manhattan), 56th and 57th Street (Manhatta ...

. In 2018, Fain performed Glass’ Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, conducted by Marin Alsop, with cellist

Matt Haimovitz Matt Haimovitz (born December 3, 1970) is a cellist based in the United States and Canada. Born in Israel, he grew up in the US from the age of five. He plays mainly a cello made by Matteo Goffriller in 1710. Family, musical education and ear ...

at the Cabrillo Festival. In 2019, Fain performed works by

, Glass, and

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with cellist

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and pianist Andrew Armstrong at the Scotia Festival in

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Work in Film

Tim Fain did his first work in film ghost-playing for

Richard Gere Richard Tiffany Gere ( ; born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He began in films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in '' Looking for Mr. Goodbar'' (1977) and a starring role in ''Days of Heaven'' (1978). He came to prominence with ...

in the Fox Searchlight movie

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in 2005. In 2010, Fain co-arranged the onscreen music in the movie

, and also performed featured violin on-camera alongside leading actress

Natalie Portman Natalie Portman (born Natalie Hershlag, he, נטע-לי הרשלג, ) is an Israeli-born American actress. She has had a prolific film career since her teenage years and has starred in various blockbusters and independent films, receiving mu ...

in the film. Fain has frequently collaborated with composer/pianist

Nicholas Britell Nicholas Britell (born October 17, 1980) is an American film composer. He has scored both of Barry Jenkins's studio films, ''Moonlight'' (2016) and ''If Beale Street Could Talk'' (2018), both of which received nominations for Best Original Sco ...

. Tim co-arranged and performed the on screen diegetic music in

12 Years A Slave ''Twelve Years a Slave'' is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., ...

with Britell, and is featured on the soundtrack album Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave. Fain and Britell also collaborated on the soundtrack to

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in 2016. Their work together includes Tale of Love and Darkness, and Fain is featured in multiple episodes Season 2 of

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. Fain collaborated with Britell once again on the film score and soundtrack for 2016's

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, which won the Academy-Award for Best Picture that year. Fain also joined director and cast members for special performances with Britell at a Moonlight screening and discussion hosted by

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and performed the score live to picture for an event at the

Million Dollar Theater The Million Dollar Theatre at 307 S. Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles is one of the first movie palaces built in the United States. It opened in 1917 with the premiere of William S. Hart's '' The Silent Man''. It's the northernmost of the collect ...

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. Also in 2016, Fain featured on Jay Wadley's score to

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' Indignation. Fain also contributed featured violin performances to

West Dylan Thordson West Dylan Thordson is an American film composer. He is best known for his original scores to ''Joy'', '' The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst'', ''Foxcatcher'' and M. Night Shyamalan's ''Split'' and ''Glass Glass is a non-crystal ...

's score for

M. Night Shyamalan Manoj Nelliyattu M. Night Shyamalan ( ; born August 6, 1970) is an Indian-American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for making original films with contemporary supernatural plots and twist endings. He was born in Mahé, India, and raise ...

's 2019 psychological superhero thriller,

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Work with Philip Glass

Fain has toured extensively with composer Philip Glass as a duo partner, and has frequently performed compositions by Glass including works he has written for Fain. He has collaborated with other prominent musicians in performances of Glass’ work, including

Iggy Pop James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, songwriter and actor. Called the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Godfather of Punk", he was the vocalist and lyricist of ...

Sondre Lerche Sondre Lerche (; born 5 September 1982) is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and guitarist, now based in Los Angeles, California. He has released nine studio albums. Early life Growing up in a suburb of Bergen, Lerche was heavily influenced by 1980s ...

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, and

Bryce Dessner Bryce David Dessner (born April 23, 1976) is an American composer and guitarist based in Paris, as well as a member of the rock band the National. Dessner's twin brother Aaron is also a member of the group. Together they write the music, in coll ...

of The National. Fain has performed music from Glass’ opera,

Einstein on the Beach ''Einstein on the Beach'' is an opera in four acts composed by Philip Glass and directed by theatrical producer Robert Wilson, who also collaborated with Glass on the work's libretto. The opera eschews traditional narrative in favor of a formali ...

, including in 2013, with pianist Pei-Yao Wang a performance of Knee 2, in recital at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Fain later joined the world tour cast of Einstein on the Beach as “Einstein” for a run of performances in

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in 2015. Fain continues to tour a duo-recital program worldwide with Philip Glass. The recital includes music written by Glass for Fain. In 2012, Fain performed Philip Glass's Pendulum with pianist

Bruce Brubaker Bruce Brubaker is a musician, artist, concert pianist, and writer from the United States. Concepts Brubaker's work uses and combines Western classical music with postmodern artistic, literary, theatrical, and philosophical ideas. He is associat ...

at the composer's 75th birthday party concert in

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. The pair toured together in 2017 on Book of Longing; a production featuring music written by Glass and words by

Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted in ...

Work in Music and Technology

Fain has a strong professional interest in the intersection of music and technology and has created several

virtual reality Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs pose tracking and 3D near-eye displays to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), educ ...

and

multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, or video into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to tradition ...

works. In 2011, Fain produced and premiered Portals; a multimedia musical evening which explores connection in the digital age. Portals, in which Fain performs live on stage, features music by Philip Glass,

, and

Kevin Puts Kevin Matthew Puts (born January 3, 1972) is an American composer, best known for winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his first opera, ''Silent Night''. Early life and education Puts was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Alma, Michig ...

, text by Leonard Cohen, choreography by

Benjamin Millepied Benjamin Millepied (; born 10 June 1977) is a French dancer and choreographer, who has lived and worked in the United States since joining the New York City Ballet in 1995, where he became a soloist in 1998 and a principal in 2002. He has also ...

, and performances from Nicholas Britell and radio personality

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. The work has been performed at venues around the world— including

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, Los Angeles, New York City, and

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, and was featured in, among others, Vanity Fair,

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and

. In 2016, Fain collaborated with

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musician Jacob Marshall of

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and artist David Lobser to create the first ever VR experience synced to a live performance at

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’s

Tower of David The Tower of David ( he, מגדל דוד, Migdál Davíd), also known as the Citadel ( ar, القلعة, al-Qala'a), is an ancient citadel located near the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem. The citadel that stands today dates t ...

to close the Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Summit. Fain has released VR violin performances on his

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channel, including the Jump VR video ''Resonance'' and a 180 VR performance of Philip Glass' "Knee Play 2" from Einstein on The Beach filmed on the coastline of the

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. In 2017, Fain again collaborated with Britell to premiere their multimedia film music recital program “Once Upon a Score” at the

Ravinia Festival Ravinia Festival is an outdoor music venue in Highland Park, Illinois. It hosts a series of outdoor concerts and performances every summer from June to September. The first orchestra to perform at Ravinia Festival was the New York Philharmonic unde ...

. In 2018, Fain composed and performed the music for the VR series Interpretation of Dreams as part of

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’s VR pilot season. Each episode of the series re-imagines a case study from Sigmund Freud's 1899 book of the same name. Fain composed and performed the interactive musical score for Metamorphic, a social VR film experience which premiered at the 2020

Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,66 ...

. In 2019, Fain gave a keynote speech at the

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in Hieronymus Park in

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. The presentation was titled "How Virtual Reality Can Help Make Our Stories (and Music!) Better," and examined the future of music and virtual reality.

Compositions

Fain composed the score and performed on the soundtrack to the 2014 documentary Untouchable: Children of God which deals with the lives of two young girls who were rescued from working in

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n brothels. In 2015, Fain composed Resonance, a short work for violin and orchestra which was used for a Google Jump VR music film directed by Jessica Brillhart. The collaboration with Google, recorded with Eric Jacobsen conducting

The Knights ''The Knights'' ( grc, Ἱππεῖς ''Hippeîs''; Attic: ) was the fourth play written by Aristophanes, who is considered the master of an ancient form of drama known as Old Comedy. The play is a satire on the social and political life of clas ...

, marked YouTube's release of its 360 spatial audio capabilities. In 2016, he composed Freedom for violin and orchestra, the recording of which was released to raise awareness about

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. Proceeds from sales and downloads of Freedom went toward Made in a Free World, an

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focused on work in this area. Fain composed the score to Interpretation of Dreams, a 2018, 4-episode virtual reality series directed by Graham Sack, and distributed by Samsung. Fain composed and performed the interactive musical score for Metamorphic, a

social Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it or not, and whether the exchange is voluntary or not. Etymology The word "social" derives from ...

VR film experience which premiered at the 2020

. Fain released his track Glacial in honor of

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2020, as a celebration of our planet and a call to action to combat climate change.

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'' is a UK-based monthly classical music magazine about string instrumentsprincipally the violin, viola, cello and double bassfor amateur and professional musicians. Founded in 1889, the magazine provides information, photographs and re ...

Discography

*''Philip Glass: Book of Longing'' (Orange Mountain Music, 2007) *''Arches: Music Then to Now'' (Image Recordings, 2008) *''Bee Season: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'', (Nettwerk, 2009) *''Philip Glass: The Concerto Project, Vol. IV'', (Orange Mountain Music, 2010) *''The Glass Chamber Players: Schoenberg* / Glass* – Verklärte Nacht Opus 4 / Sextet For Strings'', (Orange Mountain Music, 2010) *''Lifeforce: The Music of Joel Harrison'', (Orange Mountain Music, 2010) *'' Black Swan: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' (Sony, 2011) *''River of Light: American Short Works for Violin and Piano'' (Naxos, 2011) * Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave (Columbia Records, 2013) *''"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) *''Freedom'' (single) (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) *''Glacial'' (single) (2020) *

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fain, Tim Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male violinists Curtis Institute of Music alumni Juilliard School alumni 21st-century American violinists 21st-century American male musicians