The Chamber Music Society of Little Rock presents Rachel Barton Pine in recital tonight at the Clinton Presidential Center.

Rachel Barton Pine’s classical music biography leads with the cities whose orchestras she’s soloed with, including Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, St. Louis, Dallas, Montreal, Vienna, New Zealand and Budapest, among others. She was a child prodigy who made her solo debut at age seven and has worked with numerous famous conductors — Zubin Mehta, Erich Leinsdorf, Placido Domingo and Charles Dutoit to name a few.

Hailed as “the most charismatic, the most virtuosic, and the most compelling American violinist of her generation,” her instrument is one of the most important in the world, the “ex-Soldat” violin made in 1742 by Guarneri del Gesu.

Yet like any young woman who came of age in the Nineties, violinist Rachel Barton Pine is equally inclined to talk about the musical loves of her life far from the sonatas and concertos she practices and which constitute her current professional life. She may have intensely researched the musical relationship between Johannes Brahms and violinist Joseph Joachim for her GRAMMY-nominated 2003 Cedille recording “Brahms and Joachim Violin Concertos,” but when she says, “They jammed together all the time,” we can see her rock sensibility shine through. She can reel off a list of her favorite rock bands — AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Anthrax, Metallica, Pantera, Van Halen, Slayer and Megadeth — as readily as she can talk about these 19th-century composers.

Support for Chamber Music Society of Little Rock is provided, in part, by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

To purchase tickets, visit the Chamber Music Society of Little Rock’s website.