Mimi Solomon, Piano

Biography

American pianist Mimi Solomon has been heard as recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral soloist in the United States as well as in China, Japan and Europe. As a soloist and recitalist, she has performed in major venues in New York, Boston, Chicago, New Haven, and Amsterdam and has been featured on radio and television broadcasts including the prestigious McGraw-Hill Young Artist's Showcase. Festival appearances have included invitations to both sides of the Atlantic such as Santander, IMS Prussia Cove, Ravinia, Taos, Norfolk, Yellow Barn, and Aspen. She has served on the faculty of Kinhaven School and Festival in Weston, Vermont.

Recent highlights include a recital tour in China, solo appearances with the Shanghai Symphony and chamber music concerts in France, Norway, Italy, Denmark, and the United States.

Winner of the Chopin Prize in the 2000 Gina Bachauer Piano Competition at the Juilliard School, Ms. Solomon also took top prizes in the Yale Friends of Music, the Chiang Wen Yeh International Chinese Music, and the Kosciuzsko Foundation Chopin competitions. She received Yale's Selden Junior and Bach Society prizes.

Ms. Solomon graduated cum laude from Yale University and went on to receive a Masters of Music from Juilliard. Her main teachers were Peter Frankl and Robert McDonald. She spent a year studying in Europe on a Beebe Grant working privately with Ferenc Rados and subsequently resided in Paris for two more years with support from the Woolley Scholarship from the Fondation des Etats-Unis.