ELAINE FINE
Elaine Fine, who grew up in Boston, began musical life as a violinist, but received a Bachelor of Music Degree in flute performance from The Juilliard School of Music, where she was a student of Julius Baker. She later studied recorder in Vienna, baroque flute in Boston, and composition at Eastern Illinois University. She spent twenty-three years on the reviewing staff of the American Record Guide, worked as the program annotator for the New Philharmonic of DuPage County, and served for twelve years as the Classical Music Director for WEIU-FM. She is active as a composer, an arranger, and as a performing musician, playing violin, viola, viola d'amore, and recorders. Elaine runs a private teaching studio, and co-directs a string orchestra program in downstate Illinois.
In addition to her Mel Bay publications, Elaine Fine has orchestral music, chamber music, piano music, songs, and operas, published by Seesaw Music (Subito), Jeanne, and North Star Music. She also has many arrangements published by the International Music Company, and makes more than 300 additional works and arrangements available in the IMSLP. Her work has been recorded on Capstone Records, Crystal Records, MSR, and Decca, and her arrangement of the Ravel "Kaddish" for soprano and string quartet was performed at the opening of the European Parliament for Holocaust Memorial Day in 2019 and 2020.
Elaine has written numerous articles for The Instrumentalist, Strings Magazine, The Journal of the American String Teachers' Association, and The Journal of the American Viola Society, and contributed several articles to Classical Music: The Third Ear--The Essential Listening Companion published in 2002 for Backbeat Books.