Mimi Stillman

Mimi Stillman is an American flutist.

Stillman was twelve years old the youngest Holzblasinstrumentalistin that has ever been recorded at the Curtis Institute of Music. She studied with Julius Baker and Jeffrey Khaner 1999 and gained the degree of Bachelor of Music. In the same year she won again as the youngest Holzbläserin, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. It focuses in particular on contemporary music and played premieres and first performances of works by Martin Amlins, Lowell Liebermann, Jennifer Higdon, Daniel Dorffs, Richard Danielpour, Robert Maggios and Eugenio Toussaint. As a soloist she has performed with orchestras under the direction of conductor Simon Rattle, Wolfgang Sawallisch, André Previn, Kurt Masur, David Zinman, Christoph Eschenbach, Yuri Temirkanov, Marin Alsop and Robert Spano.

In 2005, Stillman in Philadelphia Dolce Suono Ensemble, whose leader she is. The ensemble awarded in seven years, twenty new works, among others to Shulamit Ran and Steven Stucky, Richard Danielpour, and Steven Mackey, George Crumb and Ned Rorem, and received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Together with pianist Charles Abramovic and cellist Yumi Kendall it forms Dolce Suono Trio.

At the University of Pennsylvania Stillman studied music history. Your articles to music and music history appeared, among others in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World and the music magazine The Flutist Quarterly. A collection of arrangements of songs Claude Debussy appeared under the title Nuits d' Stars: 8 Early Songs published by the Theodore Presser Company. As a music teacher gave Stillman et al Workshops at the National Flute Association and the Flute Society of Washington, the New England Conservatory, Eastman School of Music and the University of California and summer courses at the Curtis Institute.

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  • Born in the 20th century
  • Classical flutist
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