Rain Worthington

Believing that creativity is an elemental and essential part of human nature, Rain Worthington has followed her own instinctive path. Self-taught and cross-disciplinary, her creative impulses include concert music and sculptural spaces for attentive reflection. American Record Guide notes a focus of “deep interiority” from “a composer of considerable imagination, emotional expressiveness, and poetic sensibility.”

Through her journey, Worthington’s work and career has been the subject of more than two dozen podcasts, articles, and video interviews. Her music has been performed from downtown New York City clubs to uptown Carnegie Hall, with orchestral premieres in the United States, Brazil, Italy, Croatia, and Armenia. 

Most recently, in tandem with her career as a composer, she has re-embraced an early passion for sculpture. Pulled toward the potency of awe and transformative spaces, Worthington is moving beyond traditional concert venues to explore a cross-disciplinary artistic vision of sculptural “listening spaces” infused with her music. These contemplative environments tap into a deep primal fluidity of subliminal connections and emotional responses.

She has received music commissions from NY Philharmonic violinist Audrey Wright, the Palisades Virtuosi Trio, and the Portland Youth Philharmonic. PARMA Recordings has released two full portrait albums of her music, PASSAGES THROUGH TIME and DREAM VAPORS. 

Worthington currently serves on the International Alliance for Women in Music board as Advocacy Chair, and from 2006–2021, was Artistic Administrator and Composer Advocate for the New York Women Composers.

Links to select articles, interviews, and podcasts.

“A View From the Easel: Rain Worthington” – Hyperallergic

“From the 8BC to Carnegie Hall: The improbable journey of composer Rain Worthington” – AMNY By The Villager

“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, UK