Rain Worthington

“There is a deep interiority to this music . . . Worthington has an instantly recognizable sound, an austere sensuality not quite like anyone else . . . a composer of considerable imagination, emotional expressiveness, and poetic sensibility.” – American Record Guide
Performances of Rain Worthington’s compositions have spanned the globe from Brazil to Iceland, Cyprus to Korea, with premieres in Tokyo, Oxford University, and Delhi, India. Her work takes “. . . ideas of American musical style to a new place – like a walk in a familiar, yet very different park” – Chamber Music magazine
Self-taught in composition, her catalog includes works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, duos, solos and miniatures. Inspirations for pieces have ranged from sounds of “NYC trucks backing up late night, to the two-note expression of a sigh, to a dream of a careening bike ride through dark fog.”
Navona Records released Worthington’s CD of orchestral works “DREAM VAPORS” to critical acclaim in 2016. She was a guest composer at Missouri State University for two MSU Symphony premieres of her orchestral works, Tracing a Dream and In Passages. Conductor, Miran Vaupotić recorded In Passages with the Croatian Chamber Orchestra for a PARMA Recordings release. Maestro Claudio Scimone directed “I Solisti Veneti” for the Italian premiere of In Passages, March 2018. Upcoming orchestral performances include a South American premiere of In Passages at V Encontro Internacional de Cordas Festival in Brazil.