“Rain Worthington on the Intersections Between Music and Sculptural Spaces” – PARMA Recordings blog
“A View From the Easel: Rain Worthington” – Hyperallergic webzine
“From the 8BC to Carnegie Hall: The improbable journey of composer Rain Worthington” by Photographer/Journalist Bob Krasner.
“Meet the Artist: Rain Worthington, Composer” – The Cross-Eyed Pianist
“Rain Worthington: Tapping into the pre-verbal Language” – Composer’s Studio Podcast
“The Communicative Mystery of Instrumental Music by Rain Worthington – Sonograma Magazine”
“Universality of Emotion: Ona Jarmalavičiūtė talks to American composer Rain Worthington” – Classical Music Daily
Committed to the belief that creative expression is an elemental impulse of human nature and essential to humanity, Rain Worthington has followed her own instinctive creative path. Self-taught and multidisciplinary, she is drawn toward the transcendent power of music and visual arts and the potency of awe.
Embarking on a new creative direction in 2023, in tandem with her career as a composer, Rain re-embraced an earlier passion for sculptural spaces. She is now committed to exploring a multidisciplinary artistic vision of experiential installations. Combining materials, illumination, motion, video and music to convey an ephemeral fluidity, she infuses a transformative energy into the spiritual and physical aspects of these experiential spaces – tapping into a deep primal channel of subliminal emotional references and responses.
Currently, Rain is an artist in the 2024-2025 Canopy Program mentorship program under the auspices of the NYC Crit Club. Her article on the “Intersections Between Music and Sculptural Spaces” was featured on PARMA Recordings blog. Previously, she was one of twelve artists selected for the 2023 Critical Forum program, under the direction of Taliesin Thomas at the Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY. Her intimately-scaled installation visualizations have been included in three exhibitions in Albany and Troy, NY, and her studio was spotlighted in the Hyperallergic series “A View from the Easel”
As a composer, Rain’s work and career has been the subject of more than two dozen podcasts, articles, and video interviews. As a guest speaker at the International Conductors Guild 2024 Conference, she presented a talk on “Creating Contemporary Concert Experiences: Actionable Ideas for Cultivating Audience Engagement.”
Reviewers have stated “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), who “somehow makes clear to us how we experience the transitional, impermanent and ever shifting quality of a later modernist world.” (Gapplegate).
Her compositions have been described as music that “has the power to seize those of the listeners, guiding them along an imaginary journey that excites the inner being…” (Sonograma), and “music that carries the listener as far as yearning can reach.” (Pizzicato)
Performances of her works have ranged in scope from New York City clubs to Carnegie Hall, with World Premieres of her orchestral works in the U.S., Brazil, Italy, Croatia, and Armenia. She has received music commissions from NY Philharmonic violinist Audrey Wright, the Palisades Virtuosi Trio, and the Portland Youth Philharmonic.
Worthington’s newest 2024 PARMA Recording release is “Dream Vapors Suite (Live)” featuring the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra’s World Premiere performance of this three-movement orchestral work. Previous PARMA releases include two full portrait albums of her music, “Passages Through Time, the music of Rain Worthington” and “Dream Vapors, selected works for orchestra.”
As an advocate for contemporary concert music, Rain currently serves as the Advocacy Chair for the International Alliance for Women in Music, and previously was Artistic Administrator and Composer Advocate for the New York Women Composers 2006-2021.
She resides in upstate NY with husband, author Mark Berger, amidst the cycles of nature and the many animal populations who cohabit the shared land.
For many years Rain has been a Sponsored Artist with The Field through which Tax-deductible donations are gratefully accepted and continue to be essential to the creative growth of Rain’s career.
(Proceeds from purchases of the Dream Vapors album are donated through PARMA Recordings to the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund (a research 501(c)(3) public charity).
Listen to more of Rain’s story on the
Cadenza two-part webcast with David Osenberg, producer and host, WWFM-The Classical Network
Cadenza- Rain Worthington, composer Part 1
Cadenza- Rain Worthington, composer Part 2
