2008 Mimir Chamber Music Festival
11th Anniversary Concert Series

 

“It’ll be a hard freeze in a Dallas July before you will hear a finer performance of a Beethoven string quartet than the one presented at the Mimir Chamber Music Festival.”
Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, July 2005

 

The exciting Mimir Chamber Music Festival is held on the campus of TCU, Fort Worth, Texas. All concerts take place in the attractive and intimate PepsiCo Recital Hall in the Walsh Center for the Performing Arts.

 

“General admission for concerts is $25; admission for seniors and Star-Telegram Press Pass holders is $20; students, $15.” click here for ticket information.

 


Mimir Festival Concert 1

Thursday, July 3, 7:30 p.m.

Concert 1 Program Notes

 

Ludwig van Beethoven

String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127

Nathan Cole and Akiko Tarumoto, violins

Kirsten Docter, viola

Brant Taylor, cello

Ludwig van Beethoven

Variations in G Major for Piano Trio on Wenzel Mϋller’s
Lied “Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu,” Op. 121a

Curt Thompson, violin

Brant Taylor, cello

José Feghali, piano

Ludwig van Beethoven

Grosse Fuge for String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 133

Stephen Rose and Nathan Cole, violins

Kirsten Docter, viola

Brant Taylor, cello


Mimir Festival Concert 2

Concert 2—Saturday, July 5, 7:30 p.m.

Concert 2 Program Notes

 

Dmitri Shostakovich

String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor

Akiko Tarumoto and Stephen Rose, violins

Kirsten Docter, viola

Brant Taylor, cello

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Concerto in C Major, K. 415

Curt Thompson and Akiko Tarumoto, violins

Kirsten Docter, viola

Brant Taylor, cello John Novacek, piano

Jean Sibelius

String Quartet in D minor, Op. 56 “Voces Intimae”

 

Stephen Rose and Nathan Cole, violins

Kirsten Docter, viola

Brant Taylor, cello


Mimir Festival Concert 3

Concert 3—Sunday, July 6, 3:00 p.m.
Concert 3 Program Notes

 

Leoš Janáček

String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters”

Stephen Rose and Curt Thompson, violins

Kirsten Docter, viola

Brant Taylor, cello

Johannes Brahms

Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 101

Stephen Rose, violin

Brant Taylor, cello

John Novacek, piano

Edvard Grieg

String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27

Nathan Cole and Akiko Tarumoto, violins

Kirsten Docter, viola

Brant Taylor, cello


Mimir Festival Concert 4

Tuesday, July 8, 7:30 p.m.

Concert 4 Program Notes

Béla Bartók

Romanian Folk Dances

Erin Keefe, violin

Alessio Bax, piano

Giuseppe Verdi

String Quartet in E minor

Erin Keefe and Curt Thompson, violins

Che-Yen Chen, viola

Brant Taylor, cello

 

Ernst von Dohnányi

Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1

Curt Thompson and Erin Keefe, violins

Che-Yen Chen, viola

Brant Taylor, cello Alessio Bax, piano

 


Mimir Young Artists Concert

 

Mimir Young Artists Perform

Thursday, July 10, 7:30 p.m.

PepsiCo Recial Hall, TCU

Free Admission

 


Mimir Festival Concert 5

Friday, July 11, 7:30 p.m.

Concert 5 Program Notes

Franz Joseph Haydn

String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, No. 5

Erin Keefe and Curt Thompson, violins

Che-Yen Chen, viola

Brant Taylor, cello

Witold Lutosławski

Variations on a Theme of Paganini for two Pianos

Alessio Bax and José Feghali, pianos

Franz Schubert

Piano Trio in B-flat Major, D. 898

Curt Thompson, violin

Brant Taylor, cello

José Feghali, piano