“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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Durham, NC
Nelson Music Room, Duke University
Gut Instinct: Beethoven to Blahetka
Duke Rare Music Series:
Gut Instinct continues with a program of Beethoven and Blahetka featuring Duke's beautifully preserved 1809 Clementi Fortepiano!
Nicholas DiEugenio, violin
Jessica Troy, viola
James Wilson, cello
Mimi Solomon, Clementi fortepiano
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
Charlottesville, VA
The Dickinson Fine and Performing Arts Center at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival
A special treat for the young and young at heart, featuring Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals and Alan Ridout’s Ferdinand the Bull.
