Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Rachel Barton Pine

Rachel Barton Pine, praised for her "bravura technique and soulful musicianship" by the New York Times, returns to the Gardner Museum for a special recital on her own violin and viola d’amore. She will also perform on the Gardner Museum's extraordinary 18th century viola d'amore (on display in the Yellow Room), last played in the 1980s. This instrument, crafted in the 1770s, was given to Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1903 by composer Charles Martin Loeffler, who was her close friend and central to music programming at the Museum. Pine will perform selections by Vivaldi, Telemann, and Haydn for viola d’amore, as well as two works composed by Loeffler-his Mescolanza "Olla Podrida" and Norske Land. On violin, she will perform Brahms’ Violin Sonata and Sarasate’s Introduction and Tarantella.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Fall 2025 Weekend Concert Series features an eleven-concert autumn season curated by Abrams Curator of Music George Steel running from September 13 through November 23, 2025. The fall season showcases world-class artists in the Museum's extraordinary Calderwood Hall-a 300-seat "sonic cube" with three levels of balconies designed so that 80% of seats are front row, creating a uniquely intense and intentional listening experience. Dating to 1927, the Gardner's Weekend Concert Series is the longest running museum music program in the country.

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Prices:
General Admission - A: USD 40.00,
General Admission - B: USD 85.00,
Students and Children age 5-17: USD 20.00