Mimi Rabson - violinist,
violist, composer, educator
Mimi Rabson - violinist,
violist, composer Dubbed "...dazzling, violin phenom"
by the Boston Globe, Mimi Rabson has distinguished herself as one of Boston's
most creative and versatile musicians. She appears regularly in classical,
jazz, Klezmer and other eclectic performances and
frequently leads her own ensembles. She is a first-prize winner of the
Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in composition. In Ms. Rabson has
created a number of innovative projects to express her diverse musical
personality. Most recently she commissioned 6 fellow Berklee faculty members to
compose new works for solo violin. Those works range in style from rock to hip
hop and include contemporary practices like improvisation, interaction with
computer and effects pedals. She used her electric violin in a power trio
setting with electric bass and drums to record "Music", featuring
noise-rock, post-jazz and electro-acoustic compositions and improvisations. She
won the MCC composition award for works on that recording. Ms.
Rabson created RESQ - the Really Eclectic String Quartet that plays her
compositions and arrangements of jazz, funk, fusion, gospel and Latin music.
RESQ made two recordings and performs extensively in the Boston area. Ms.
Rabson was a founding member of the Klezmer
Conservatory Band and worked with that organization for many years touring,
recording, composing and acting as musical director. Ms. Rabson appeared with Itzhak Perlman on the recording called “In the Fiddler’s
House” and on “The Late Show with David Letterman". She was featured in a
documentary about Klezmer music called "A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden". Ms. Rabson served as musical director to academy award winner, Joel
Grey in his production of “Borschtcapades ‘94”.
Her composition "Klezzified" was featured
on Saturday Night Live. Ms. Rabson is a Stringletter
Press composer and arranger providing many pieces for the String Charts
catalogue. Her published works include arrangements of music by Duke Ellington,
James Brown and Cole Porter as well as her originals. Her music and her
articles frequent the pages of Strings Magazine. She was commissioned by the
Rivers Music School to compose music that was performed at the 29th Annual
Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young. Her other commissions include the
Cello Chix, the Vicki Citron Studio and Paula Zeitlin. Ms. Rabson offers clinics to music teachers and
students about improvisation. She has presented at ASTA, Bates College, The Conservatory Lab School in Brighton, MA, the Winchester
Public Schools, Wellesley College and the Longy
School of Music. She is also a sought after clinician for orchestras travelling
through the Boston area. Ms. Rabson's other
performance credits include the premiere of “Fresh Faust” by Leroy Jenkins,
soundtrack for “Sensorium”- the award winning film by
Karen Aqua, with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, Meatloaf, the Boston Gay Men's
Choir, the Boston Camarata, the New England Ragtime
Ensemble, the Klezmatics, Deborah Henson- Conant, the
Pablo Ablanedo Octet, and XLCR. She has appeared on A
Prairie Home Companion twice, at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Out of
Doors, Wolf Trap, the Mann Center, the Place des Arts
in Montreal and at many other world class venues. Ms. Rabson is on the faculty
at the Berklee College of Music and has received several Berklee grants to
support her creative endeavors. She is a Yamaha String Educator. “…
aggressively eclectic and a master of every style she touches” – Bowed Radio
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