Mimi Stillman

Mimi Stillman (* around 1983 in Boston ) is an American flautist .

Career

At the age of twelve, Stillman was the youngest woodwind instrumentalist ever to be accepted into the Curtis Institute of Music . She studied there with Julius Baker and Jeffrey Khaner and obtained a Bachelor of Music degree in 1999 . In the same year she won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions , again as the youngest woodwind player . She is particularly dedicated to contemporary music and has premiered and premiered works by Martin Amlin , Richard Danielpours , Daniel Dorff , Jennifer Higdons , Lowell Liebermanns , Robert Maggios and Eugenio Toussaints . As a soloist she performed with orchestras under the direction of the conductor Marin Alsop and the conductors Christoph Eschenbach , Kurt Masur , André Previn , Simon Rattle , Wolfgang Sawallisch and David Zinman .

In 2005 Stillman founded the Dolce Suono Ensemble in Philadelphia , of which she is the director. In seven years the ensemble has commissioned twenty compositions a. a. to George Crumb , Shulamit Ran , Ned Rorem, and Steven Stucky and has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage . She forms the Dolce Suono Trio with the pianist Charles Abramovic and the cellist Yumi Kendall .

After graduating from the Conservatory, Stillman studied history and musicology at the University of Pennsylvania . Her articles on music and music history have appeared among others. a. in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World and the music magazine The Flutist Quarterly . A collection of arrangements of songs by Claude Debussy was published under the title Nuits d'Étoiles: 8 Early Songs was published by the Theodore Presser Company . As a music teacher, Stillman gave workshops a. a. at the National Flute Association and the Flute Society of Washington , the New England Conservatory , the Eastman School of Music and the University of California, and summer courses at the Curtis Institute .

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SURNAME	Stillman, Mimi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American flautist
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century