Mr. Fain’s 2006-2007 season includes performances as soloist with the Curtis Chamber Orchestra at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, the Meridian (MS) Symphony, the Fort Smith (AR) Symphony, the Fairfax (VA) Symphony, the Fox Valley Symphony (WI), the Westmoreland Symphony (PA), the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle (SC), and Long Bay Symphony (SC).  He gives recitals and educational residencies at St. Vincent College (PA), Vanguard Concerts (OH), and a residency at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
 
Mr. Fain made his New York City concerto debut with the New York Chamber Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz at Alice Tully Hall in 2002, and has been soloist with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival.  He has performed concertos by Beethoven, Glazunov, Bruch, Barber and Philip Glass, among other works, with orchestras throughout the United States including the Mobile Symphony, the Bellevue (WA) Philharmonic Orchestra, the Florida West Coast Symphony, the Symphony of the Americas (FL), the Waterbury (CT) Symphony Orchestra, the Albany (GA) Symphony, and the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra.  Abroad, he has been soloist with the Mexico City Philharmonic, Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires in Argentina, and performed at the Spoleto Festival in Italy, the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
 
Mr. Fain is also in demand as a superb chamber musician.  He has performed with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at New York’s Bargemusic, and he is first violinist of the Rossetti String Quartet.  He has also appeared at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Ives Festival in Boston.  He has toured nationally with “Musicians from Marlboro” and performed at festivals including Ravinia, Bridgehampton, Santa Fe, Caramoor, Bard, Cooperstown, Chamber Music Northwest, Vail Valley, Moab, and Martha’s Vineyard.
 
In May 2005, Mr. Fain was singled out for his solo violin performance onstage with New York City Ballet, performing alongside the dancers in the City Ballet premiere of Benjamin Millepied’s “Double Aria.”  He has appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group, the Seán Curran Company, and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in the U.S. and abroad.  He also continues to pursue his interest in jazz and recently appeared at the Jazz Standard with composer and saxophonist Patrick Zimmerli.  Mr. Fain made his film debut in 2005 on the soundtrack of the Fox Searchlight movie Bee Season, in which he plays the voice of Richard Gere’s violin.
 
After winning the 1999 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Mr. Fain gave acclaimed debuts in the Young Concert Artists Series at the 92nd Street Y in New York, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.  He has been honored by the Hennings-Fisher Foundation in Los Angeles.  Mr. Fain was the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2001.
 
A native of Santa Monica, California, Timothy Fain attended the R.D. Colburn School of Performing Arts and the Crossroads School.  He received a Bachelor’s Degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied with Victor Danchenko, and a Master’s of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where he worked with Robert Mann.  Mr. Fain has also studied with Aaron Rosand, Haroutune Bedelian and Laura and Eduard Schmieder.  He currently lives in New York City.

Bio courtesy of www.yca.org.