Incredibly focused, emotionally intense playing. Solomon was highly sensitive and authentic.
American pianist Mimi Solomon brings warmth, sensitivity and curiosity to her multifaceted career as a chamber musician, soloist, teacher, and artistic director. 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.
Music-making of visceral immediacy
An avid chamber musician, she has appeared at music festivals on both sides of the Atlantic such as Santander, IMS Prussia Cove, Lockenhaus, Rencontres de Bel-Air, Ravinia, Taos, Norfolk, Yellow Barn, Charlottesville, and La Loingtaine.
She regularly performs and records with her husband, violinist Nicholas DiEugenio. Their award-winning duo project, “Unraveling Beethoven” includes a full cycle of Beethoven violin sonatas alongside newly commissioned response works by Allen Anderson, D.K. Garner, Robert Honstein, Jesse Jones and Tonia Ko. Their first recording, released on New Focus, was praised as a “touching, committed tribute” (I Care If You Listen) to the late Steven Stucky.
ideal balance…sensitivity to stylistic excellence.
Mimi is also an enthusiastic and dedicated pedagogue: she is co-artistic director of MYCO Chamber Players and she is currently on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has taught at Kinhaven as well as at Cornell University, East Carolina University, and Ithaca College. Her students have been accepted to schools including Juilliard, Colburn, New England Conservatory, Peabody and Yale.
Mimi lived in Paris for several years, during which, in addition to being active as a chamber musician and soloist, she gained an assiduous understanding of where to find all the best French delicacies! She also fell in love with historic keyboard instruments during her time in Paris. She graduated from Yale and Juilliard and has worked with Peter Frankl, Robert McDonald, Ferenc Rados and fortepianist Patrick Cohen. She lives in Chapel Hill, NC with her husband, violinist Nicholas DiEugenio and their Plott hound Tengo.
