Sound is my story, and I have much to tell for all who are listening. As a violinist and composer, I strive to make the world a more beautiful place, and to give people permission to feel deeply through the music I create.
Unraveling
The first single from my new album Unraveling is out now!
Unraveling expresses my coming to terms with our broken, unstable world - a cry for understanding, but also a call to action, coming back to gratitude, and an attempt to get out of my own head. I composed and recorded it for 17 layered and looped violins, and really wanted to explore the limits of pitch and intensity on the violin.
Grateful to Brian Powers for going out in a limb, literally ;) hanging onto the side of a cliff to film some of these shots for the music video out at Kootenai Creek in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley.
© Delos Records ℗ Tim Fain, Blind Bay Records
Edge of a Dream
Edge of a Dream for violin and orchestra is about holding on to hope in the face of great adversity. Looking back, I now realize that I needed to express this intense, and at times forceful yearning during the pandemic, to hold on to the hope of a better future. As I was composing this work, qualities of joy and even elation emerged in my writing, which seemed in stark contrast to the ever-present turmoil and uncertainty which I and so many others have experienced during these past couple of years. Throughout much of the work, I employ several short motifs, which are recombined and re-orchestrated as pixels, through which a larger structure emerges as the final part comes to an exuberant close.
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Some of my favorites, from the final part of my violin concerto “Edge Of A Dream,” to “Swan Remix” from my album First Loves,” to Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, which I’ve loved for so long, and my own composition Freedom, written to support efforts to end modern slavery.
“Fain brought technical finesse, lyrical ardor and cagey control to his alluring performance…”
— The New York Times
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