“Technically absolutely perfect and unassailable understanding of the music”
Praised for her "sensitive, authentic playing" and her "color and verve", American pianist Mimi Solomon enjoys a rich and versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician, artistic director and pedagogue. She has performed throughout the United States, China, Japan and Europe, has appeared as soloist with orchestras including Shanghai Symphony, Philharmonia Virtuosi, and Yale Symphony Orchestra, and has been featured on numerous radio and television broadcasts including the McGraw-Hill Young Artist’s Showcase, France 3, France Inter, and National Public Radio.
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Unraveling Beethoven
New Commissions for Violin and Piano of Allen Anderson, D.K. Garner, Robert Honstein, Jesse Jones, and Tonia Ko
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Livingston Manor, NY
Weekend of Chamber Music
Mimi returns to WCM to perform Beethoven's Sonata Op. 109 as well as chamber music by Augusta Read Thomas and others!
Asheville, NC
Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas
Leipzig was home to the great music couple Clara and Robert Schumann, where they lived from 1840-1844. In 1842, Robert Schumann devoted his compositional energies to his so called "Year of Chamber Music", which produced among other great works, his piano quintet. Clara met Robert in Leipzig and Clara composed her 3 Romances in 1853, dedicating them to the great violinist, Joseph Joachim. English Dame Ethel Smyth studied in Leipzig several decades later and composed her magnificent string trio while in this cultural hub.
Clara Schumann: Three Romances (10')
Tonia Ko: Tribute (Axis II) (10')
Ethel Smyth: String Trio in D major (28')
Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet (27')
Nicholas DiEugenio, violin; J Freivogel, violin; Kara Poorbaugh, viola; Rachel Henderson Freivogel, cello; Mimi Solomon, piano
Richmond, VA
First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond
CMSCVA: Circle of Friends
CMSCVA honors the 150-anniversary year of British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with a concert of his music and that of his friends and teachers. The program includes Coleridge-Taylor’s jubilant Nonet, and the ultimate friendship tribute piece, Elgar’s “Enigma” Variations, in an arrangement by CMSCVA Artistic Director James Wilson.
Program includes:
Coleridge-Taylor │ Nonet for winds, piano and string quartet, mvt. 1 (arr. Wilden Dannenberg)
Traditional/Coleridge Taylor │ “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”
Traditional/Coleridge Taylor │ “La Bamboula”
Hurlstone │ Characteristic Pieces for clarinet and piano, “Croon Song”
Stanford │ String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 104, Allegro moderato
Coleridge-Taylor │ 5 Fantasiestück, Op. 5, “Dance”
Elgar/Wilson │ Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 (“Enigma”), for winds, piano, and string quartet
Rebecca Anderson, violin
Mary Boodell, flute
Devin Gossett, horn
Grant Houston, violin
David Lemelin, clarinet
Tanner Menees, viola
Tom Schneider, Bassoon
Mimi Solomon, piano
