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Curt Thompson is Founder and Executive Director of the Mimir Chamber
Music Festival, held annually at TCU where he serves as Associate
Professor of Violin and Director of Chamber Music studies. A native
of Arkansas, Mr. Thompson has performed recitals throughout Europe,
Central America, and South America including performances at Salle
Gaveau (Paris), the Bulgarian State Academy of Music (Sofia), and
the Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica (San José). In March 2005
he performed with TCU colleagues Messrs. Feghali and Castro-Balbi
at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, featuring the world premiere
of Search for Piano Trio by composer Samuel Zyman. Thompson has
been a featured artist in the Copland/Shostakovich Festival in
Rio de Janeiro, the Festival de Primavera in Oaxaca, Mexico, and
the Seventh Centennial Festival of Villarobledo, Spain. His debut
recording on the Naxos label of the violin sonatas by Charles Ives
has received outstanding reviews worldwide, including Gramophone,
The Strad, The Wire, and the New York Times, where it was called “…a
hole in one…perfectly demonstrating [Ives’] spicy,
earthy rawness and appeal….” Performances for north
Texas audiences have been included in the ‘Top 10’ musical
events of the year in both the Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth
Star-Telegram. As a concerto soloist, Mr. Thompson has appeared
with several orchestras including the Corpus Christi Philharmonic,
the San Angelo Symphony Orchestra, the Texas Chamber Orchestra,
and the Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra (Colombia).
In addition to his duties at TCU, he has given master classes
at several institutions including the Bulgarian State Academy
of Music
(Sofia), El Escorial Conservatory (Spain), University of Saõ Paulo
(Brazil), and the Royal Academy of Music (London). He has served
as Concertmaster of the Fort Worth Symphony (by special invitation),
the Spoleto Festival Orchestra (Italy), the San Angelo Symphony
Orchestra, and the Texas Chamber Orchestra. During the Spring
2002 semester, he maintained a violin studio as Guest Artist/Lecturer
at his alma mater, Indiana University, where years earlier he
received
Bachelor and Master of Music degrees and was awarded a Performer’s
Certificate while studying with Nelli Shkolnikova. The following
year Thompson completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at
Rice University where he studied with Sergiu Luca.
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