Mimir Chamber Music Festival

The Mimir Chamber Music Festival proudly celebrates its 23rd anniversary season in 2020, with an exciting global reach as we take the Festival online for a rare opportunity to offer a one-of-a-kind performance experience because of the Coronavirus shutdown. The Festival will broadcast performances on July 7, 9, 10* and 11, all at 7:30pm in time zones associated with Auckland, Melbourne, Berlin and Dallas/Fort Worth. These pre-recorded performances were commissioned by Mimir, and it is a unique chance to hear leaders of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Houston, Nashville and Pittsburgh symphonies; Grammy Award-nominated recording artists; and a beautiful performance of Beethoven's song cycle An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved) from Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On opening night, we also have a special performance of Arnold Schoenberg's Nottorno for Strings and Harp introduced by the ...

Thank You Mimir Fans!

Thank you for joining us at the Online 2020 Mimir Chamber Music Festival.

What an experience!

As we savor the week's exceptional chamber music concerts, you can still go to the Mimir Online Concert Hall where available concerts will be archived.

We look forward to seeing you soon at Mimir Australia, and next year in Fort Worth, TX for Mimir's 24th season.

Emerging Artists Program 2021

We will be posting application details for the 2021 Emerging Artists Program soon.

Stay Safe Everyone!

Mimir Festival Artists

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Will Haapaniemi is proud to have attended Mimir festival in the summer of 2008. A graduate of New World Symphony in 2010, Will joined Kansas City Symphony in 2012, and finally Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2014 alongside his wife and violinist Heidi Han. Will wanted to be a violinist from the time he was little more than 2 years old, when he saw Itzhak Perlman play on Sesame Street. Many other interests competed with practice time—some of his favorites being the...

Cellist Karissa Shivone joined the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra during the 2016-2017 season at age 21. She comes to Pennsylvania most recently from Southern California, where she enjoyed performing regularly with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a substitute cellist under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, Semyon Bychkov, Leonard Slatkin, and John Williams. Originally from Seattle, Shivone made her solo debut at age 15 performing with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony as a...

We're going Online for 2020

Mimir 2020 will be an online festival this year. All 2020 Festival Concerts Free

Click here to learn about the Mimir Festival Emerging Artists program

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