Rain Worthington has a distinctly unique voice within the field of contemporary music. As critic, Kyle Gann noted in Chamber Music magazine, her music
“…take(s) ideas of American musical style to a new place – like a walk in a familiar, yet very different park... And isn't afraid to come up with its own startling conclusions.”
Using the palette of chamber and orchestra instrumentations, Rain Worthington’s work touches the human heart with emotionally evocative music that is nuanced, delicate, powerful and transporting.
Rain Worthington’s music has been heard in New York City loft concerts, performance spaces and dance clubs, to orchestra recordings in Europe and chamber concerts in India. World music, romanticism and minimalism have influenced her compositional style.
Rain’s compositions for orchestra were recorded for ERMMedia with Conductor, Robert Ian Winstin, and premiered by the Orchestra of the SEM Ensemble with Conductor, Petr Kotik. Pianist, Max Lifchitz, recorded her piano music for North/South Recordings. A new orchestra work, Tracing a Dream, was recorded by the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra with Conductor, Ovidiu Marinescu and released 2011 on the Navona label through PARMA Recordings. A second orchestra piece, Of Time Remembered, is scheduled to be recorded in 2011 by PARMA/Navona.
Zeitgeist, Englewinds, DoubleEntendre and Ricochet Duo have recently premiered her music, and her composition entry was awarded 1st Prize in the Anton Stadler Competition. Rain’s music has been featured in articles by music journalists, Kyle Gann and Joseph Dalton, and in reviews in the American Record Guide, IAWM Journal, Fanfare, and MusicWeb-International.
She has been awarded grants from Meet The Composer, ASCAP, the American Music Center, NYFA, American Composers Forum, and commissioned by Englewinds.
In addition to composing concert works, she serves as Director of Development for the New York Women Composers.
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