ROSEMARIE MIENTKA & ANDREW KRIMM
Rosemarie Mientka (choreography and dance)
Rosemarie danced with the Nashville-based company New Dialect from 2014 through 2017. She grew up in the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Colorado and became a Mentor/Apprentice with ARC Dance Company in Seattle, WA, in 2009. Rosemarie moved to Nashville in 2011 to join Nashville Ballet 2 Training Division where she began studying with Banning Bouldin. Rosemarie performed in Ritual—Bouldin’s site-specific work created for the Nashville Ballet 2 during the 100th Anniversary of Shelby Park in October 2012—as well as the premiere of New Dialect's MultiLingual at OZ Nashville in August 2014, Belinda McGuire's creation Incorporeus in December 2014, New Dialect's Murmuration in March 2015, Trisha Brown’s “Planes” installation in May 2015 and New Dialect’s performance of Souvenirs in March 2016.
In the fall of 2014 Rosemarie was invited to participate in New Dialect's Choreographers LAB series. During her three week residency, she worked with our company members to create a new ensemble work, Turns to Blue, which was partly inspired by the visual art of Wassily Kandinsky, the German abstract expressionist. Turns to Blue premiered at the Frist Arts Museum on November 16, 2014, during the Center's Kandinsky retrospective. In the summer of 2015, Rosemarie was one of six choreographers chosen to participate in the San Francisco Conservatory's choreographic summer residency.
Between 2017 and 2019, Rosemarie freelanced as a dancer and choreographer for various ensemble groups in New York City. She has again been Colorado-based since summer of 2020.
Andrew Krimm (viola)
Andrew Krimm is the executive director of the Boulder Symphony. He began studying viola at the age of 7 in Dallas, Texas. In 2006, he began Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Colorado Boulder, studying with Erika Eckert and Geraldine Walther. In 2011, Mr. Krimm returned to Dallas to pursue a Performer’s Diploma at Southern Methodist University where he studied with Ellen Rose. While in attendance, Andrew co-founded the award-winning string quartet, Altius Quartet. During their residency at SMU, Altius Quartet won first prize at the Coltman Chamber Music Competition, first prize at the Plowman Chamber Music Competition, and was awarded the Silver Medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
In the Fall of 2015, Mr. Krimm moved to Boulder to study with the world renowned Takacs Quartet. The Altius Quartet was awarded a three-year residency at CU-Boulder to guide the quartet through the creative and business aspects of having a successful career as a string quartet. In 2016 with the Altius Quartet, Mr. Krimm made his Carnegie Hall debut in NYC.
The Altius Quartet recently completed two albums. The first was released in April 2017 featuring a mash up of many different genres including Haydn, Bolcom, a-ha, and Dave Brubeck. The second, to be released in October 2017, features Shostakovich's “Personal Quartets” Nos. 7, 8, and, 9. Both discs are being released by PARMA Recordings.
After serving as Board President for the Western Slope Concert Series, Andrew became the Executive Director in 2018. In 2020 Andrew was also named the Executive Director of the Boulder Symphony. An organization committed to connecting with and profoundly affecting the human spirit. Boulder Symphony envisions a community that is informed, connected and inspired by the arts.
Currently Andrew lives in Longmont, Colorado with his wife, violist Stephanie Mientka and their cat, Gus. Andrew is the most outrageous, most obsessive, and at times the most heart-broken Dallas Cowboys fan in the world.
Rosemarie danced with the Nashville-based company New Dialect from 2014 through 2017. She grew up in the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Colorado and became a Mentor/Apprentice with ARC Dance Company in Seattle, WA, in 2009. Rosemarie moved to Nashville in 2011 to join Nashville Ballet 2 Training Division where she began studying with Banning Bouldin. Rosemarie performed in Ritual—Bouldin’s site-specific work created for the Nashville Ballet 2 during the 100th Anniversary of Shelby Park in October 2012—as well as the premiere of New Dialect's MultiLingual at OZ Nashville in August 2014, Belinda McGuire's creation Incorporeus in December 2014, New Dialect's Murmuration in March 2015, Trisha Brown’s “Planes” installation in May 2015 and New Dialect’s performance of Souvenirs in March 2016.
In the fall of 2014 Rosemarie was invited to participate in New Dialect's Choreographers LAB series. During her three week residency, she worked with our company members to create a new ensemble work, Turns to Blue, which was partly inspired by the visual art of Wassily Kandinsky, the German abstract expressionist. Turns to Blue premiered at the Frist Arts Museum on November 16, 2014, during the Center's Kandinsky retrospective. In the summer of 2015, Rosemarie was one of six choreographers chosen to participate in the San Francisco Conservatory's choreographic summer residency.
Between 2017 and 2019, Rosemarie freelanced as a dancer and choreographer for various ensemble groups in New York City. She has again been Colorado-based since summer of 2020.
Andrew Krimm (viola)
Andrew Krimm is the executive director of the Boulder Symphony. He began studying viola at the age of 7 in Dallas, Texas. In 2006, he began Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Colorado Boulder, studying with Erika Eckert and Geraldine Walther. In 2011, Mr. Krimm returned to Dallas to pursue a Performer’s Diploma at Southern Methodist University where he studied with Ellen Rose. While in attendance, Andrew co-founded the award-winning string quartet, Altius Quartet. During their residency at SMU, Altius Quartet won first prize at the Coltman Chamber Music Competition, first prize at the Plowman Chamber Music Competition, and was awarded the Silver Medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
In the Fall of 2015, Mr. Krimm moved to Boulder to study with the world renowned Takacs Quartet. The Altius Quartet was awarded a three-year residency at CU-Boulder to guide the quartet through the creative and business aspects of having a successful career as a string quartet. In 2016 with the Altius Quartet, Mr. Krimm made his Carnegie Hall debut in NYC.
The Altius Quartet recently completed two albums. The first was released in April 2017 featuring a mash up of many different genres including Haydn, Bolcom, a-ha, and Dave Brubeck. The second, to be released in October 2017, features Shostakovich's “Personal Quartets” Nos. 7, 8, and, 9. Both discs are being released by PARMA Recordings.
After serving as Board President for the Western Slope Concert Series, Andrew became the Executive Director in 2018. In 2020 Andrew was also named the Executive Director of the Boulder Symphony. An organization committed to connecting with and profoundly affecting the human spirit. Boulder Symphony envisions a community that is informed, connected and inspired by the arts.
Currently Andrew lives in Longmont, Colorado with his wife, violist Stephanie Mientka and their cat, Gus. Andrew is the most outrageous, most obsessive, and at times the most heart-broken Dallas Cowboys fan in the world.