Elizabeth Pitcairn, born December 5, 1973 into a musical Bryn Athyn, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania family, began the violin at age three and performed her first concerto with orchestra at 14. She studied violin in Los Angeles with Robert Lipsett at the USC Thornton School of Music. Her great-great-grandfather was John Pitcairn (19 Jan 1841 - 1916), founder of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... Robert Lipsett is a renowned violin teacher in Los Angeles, California. ... The University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, founded in 1884 and dedicated in 1999, is one of the premiere music schools on the West Coast. ... PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) was founded in 1883 under the name Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. ...

Elizabeth Pitcairn is the current owner of the Mendelssohn Red Violin (Stradivarius 1720). It was purchased in 1990 by her grandfather for her 16th birthday for a reported $1.6 million at auction at Christie's London. Appropriately, she is one of few soloists who perform the Red Violin Chaconne composed by John Corigliano. However, her violin is in no way related to the film whatsoever, despite numerous claims in her publicity materials. Feel free to ask the creators of the movie. The Red Violin (French: Le Violon rouge, German: Die Rote Geige, Italian: Il Violino Rosso, Mandarin: 红提琴) is a Canadian film released on November 13, 1998 (in the USA on June 11, 1999). ... Antonio Stradivari, by Edgar Bundy, 1893: a romanticized image of a craftsman-hero One of the violins in the Stradivarius collection of the Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain A Stradivarius (or Strad) is a stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family, especially by Antonio Stradivari. ... John Corigliano (born February 16, 1938) is an American composer of classical music. ...

External link

• Elizabeth Pitcairn website