Background
Pitcairn was born into a musical family in Buckinghamshire County, Pennsylvania. Her mother, cello player Mary Eleanor (Brace) Pitcairn, received a master"s degree from Juilliard. Her father Laren Pitcairn trained to be an opera singer.
Pitcairn was born into a musical family in Buckinghamshire County, Pennsylvania. Her mother, cello player Mary Eleanor (Brace) Pitcairn, received a master"s degree from Juilliard. Her father Laren Pitcairn trained to be an opera singer.
University of Southern California.
She has concertized widely as a soloist and is noted for performing on the 1720 Red Mendelssohn Antonio Stradivari violin that is said to have inspired the film The Red Violin. Her younger brother David played cello, though makes his living as an aerospace engineer Her grandfather was the Review
Theodore Pitcairn of Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.
She is the great-niece of Harold Pitcairn and Raymond Pitcairn. Pitcairn began the violin at age three and performed her first concerto with orchestra at 14.
Her path led her to study violin in Los Angeles with Robert Lipsett at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. Pitcairn taught at University of Southern California Thornton School of Music for 10 years as an assistant adjunct professor
Pitcairn performs in partnership with the "Red Mendelssohn" Violin (Stradivarius 1720).
Mississippi Pitcairn appears on the 10th anniversary edition of The Red Violin - Meridian Collection Digital Video Disc in a special feature documentary interview. Mississippi Pitcairn is passionate about youth and education.
She is the President and Artistic Director of the Luzerne Music Center and Chamber Music Festival in Lake Luzerne, New New York
On her tours, she makes time for school visits and gives university masterclasses for aspiring music students. Recently Pitcairn demonstrated the violin to high school students at Lake George Central School in Upstate New York as part of an effort to grow interest in the musical arts Pitcairn champions new music, and commissioned a violin concerto from one of Sweden"s leading composers, Tommie Haglund, titled "Hymns to Night." She premiered this work with the Swedish Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra in 2005 to public and critical acclaim, and the concert was broadcast multiple times throughout Sweden.
The work was nominated for a 2011 Swedish Grammi.
She recently performed for the international press at Christie"s of New York, which invited her to demonstrate another Stradivarius, and gave interviews to Cable News Network, Consumer News and Business Channel, Fox News, Reuters, Way of New York City-FM, Scotland"s Radio Sound, The Associated Press and The New York Times. Classic FM, Britain"s largest classical radio station, requested an interview in December 2007.
She is currently a member of the distinguished faculty at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Los Angeles While studying at University of Southern California, Pitcairn was a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority.