Mimi Stillman
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Mimi Stillman is one of the most highly acclaimed flutists in the concert world today. "A magically gifted flutist, a breath of fresh air" The Washington Post
,"A seasoned artist of spirited, unbridled virtuosity" New York Concert Review, "Technically agile and imaginative in her use of color" The New York Times
, "A ball of fire in person and on the stage" The Alexandria Journal.
A Yamaha Performing Artist, Stillman is internationally acclaimed for performances as soloist with orchestras including The Philadelphia Orchestra, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart
, Hilton Head Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica Carlos Chávez (Mexico City
), Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Oklahoma City Philharmonic
, Texas Brazos Valley Symphony, Orchestra 2001
, Ocean City Pops, and Curtis Chamber Orchestra. She has appeared as recitalist and chamber musician at venues including The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall
, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
, Bard College
, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
, Bay Chamber Concerts
(ME), Verbier Festival
(Switzerland
), and Festival delle Nazioni (Italy
).
At 12, Stillman was the youngest wind player ever admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music
, where she studied with Julius Baker
and Jeffrey Khaner
and received her Bachelor of Music degree in 1999. That same year she became the youngest wind player ever to win the prestigious Young Concert Artists
. She has been awarded fellowships from the Earhart
and Bradley Foundation
s, and was a member of Astral Artists.
In her role as Artistic and Executive Director of the Dolce Suono Ensemble, which she founded in Philadelphia in 2005, Stillman has presided over its establishment as a highly regarded and pioneering force in the music world. Dolce Suono Ensemble informs and enriches people’s lives through chamber music
, with dynamic performances, innovative programming, the commissioning and performance of important contributions to the chamber music repertoire, and the engagement of diverse communities through educational and outreach events. Dolce Suono’s active commissioning program has led to the creation of 21 new works in six years. Commissioned composers include Richard Danielpour
, Steven Mackey
, Shulamit Ran
, and Steven Stucky
, and guest composers have included George Crumb
and Ned Rorem
. Dolce Suono Ensemble has garnered extensive praise in print, on radio and TV, and been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts
and other organizations. Stillman is a founding member of the Dolce Suono Trio, with her longtime duo pianist Charles Abramovic and cellist Yumi Kendall.
On her CD "MIMI," she recorded her award-winning book of arrangements of Debussy's songs, Nuits d'Étoiles: 8 Early Songs (Theodore Presser Company
). She has recorded for the EMI
, Albany
, and Dolce Suono labels, with forthcoming CDs on the Innova and DTR labels. Stillman is regularly featured in the national press, as guest on NPR’s "Performance Today
," WGBH Boston, WRTI
Radio, and WHYY-TV
Philadelphia’s "On Canvas" show, and is host and performer on the Musical Encounters TV show and video "The Magic Flute
." She recorded the soundtrack for Kevin Bacon
's film "Loverboy."
Stillman is active as educator, guest speaker, and arts entrepreneur
. She has taught masterclasses and performed recitals for the National Flute Association
, New England Conservatory, Eastman School of Music
, Flute Society of Washington, D.C., Texas Flute Society, University of California
, Music for All Festival, and other universities and flute societies throughout the United States
. She received an MA in history and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania
. A published author on music and history, she is a columnist for Flutewise Magazine (UK). She won Astral Artists, which furthered her early career as a member of their roster.
Orchestrally, Stillman has performed as substitute flutist in The Philadelphia Orchestra, and has worked with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Wolfgang Sawallisch
, André Previn
, Kurt Masur
, David Zinman
, Christoph Eschenbach
, Yuri Temirkanov
, Marin Alsop
, and Robert Spano
.
Stillman's 2010-2011 engagements include recitals and chamber music for Bay Chamber Concerts (ME), Ocean Grove Summer Stars Series (NJ), Music for All Festival, Cabrini College
, Rosenbach Museum & Library
, Hampton Roads Flute Faire, and Dolce Suono Trio engagements for the New York Flute Club, Market Square Concerts, and Bucks County Performing Arts Center, the Young Concert Artists Marathon at New York's Symphony Space
and Dolce Suono Ensemble Presents series in Philadelphia, along with touring engagements.
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
,"A seasoned artist of spirited, unbridled virtuosity" New York Concert Review, "Technically agile and imaginative in her use of color" The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, "A ball of fire in person and on the stage" The Alexandria Journal.
A Yamaha Performing Artist, Stillman is internationally acclaimed for performances as soloist with orchestras including The Philadelphia Orchestra, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart
Bach-Collegium Stuttgart
Bach-Collegium Stuttgart is an internationally known German instrumental ensemble, founded by Helmuth Rilling in 1965 to accompany the Gächinger Kantorei in choral music with orchestra...
, Hilton Head Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica Carlos Chávez (Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
), Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Oklahoma City Philharmonic
Oklahoma City Philharmonic
The Oklahoma City Philharmonic is the most prominent performing orchestra in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and its environs.- History :The first Oklahoma City orchestra was formed as early as 1924. The Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1938 with Ralph Rose conducting its inaugural season...
, Texas Brazos Valley Symphony, Orchestra 2001
Orchestra 2001
Orchestra 2001 is an American orchestra, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which specialises in the performance of contemporary classical music...
, Ocean City Pops, and Curtis Chamber Orchestra. She has appeared as recitalist and chamber musician at venues including The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is a large performing arts venue located on Broad Street, along the stretch known as the "Avenue of the Arts", in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is owned and operated by Kimmel Center, Inc., an organization which also manages the Academy of Music in...
, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society is a non-profit chamber music and recital forum. It was created, in 1986, by Anthony Checchia and Philip Maneval, its Artistic Director and Executive Director respectively...
, Bard College
Bard College
Bard College, founded in 1860 as "St. Stephen's College", is a small four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.-Location:...
, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum or Fenway Court, as the museum was known during Isabella Stewart Gardner's lifetime, is a museum in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located within walking distance of the Museum of Fine Arts and near the Back Bay Fens...
, Bay Chamber Concerts
Bay Chamber Concerts
Bay Chamber Concerts is a non-profit organization located in downtown Rockport, Maine. Bay Chamber Concerts plays a principal role in bringing music, particularly classical music, to the Mid Coast area...
(ME), Verbier Festival
Verbier Festival
The Verbier Festival is an international music festival that takes place annually for two weeks in late July and early August in the mountain resort of Verbier, Switzerland.Founded by Swedish expatriate Martin T...
(Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
), and Festival delle Nazioni (Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
).
At 12, Stillman was the youngest wind player ever admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music
Curtis Institute of Music
The Curtis Institute of Music is a conservatory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that offers courses of study leading to a performance Diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in Opera, and Professional Studies Certificate in Opera. According to statistics compiled by U.S...
, where she studied with Julius Baker
Julius Baker
Julius Baker was one of the foremost American orchestral flute players.He was well known as a teacher and served as a faculty member at the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, and Carnegie Mellon University...
and Jeffrey Khaner
Jeffrey Khaner
Jeffrey Khaner is the principal flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has also served as principal flutist with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony. Mr. Khaner teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School....
and received her Bachelor of Music degree in 1999. That same year she became the youngest wind player ever to win the prestigious Young Concert Artists
Young Concert Artists
Young Concert Artists is a New York City-based non-profit organization dedicated to discovering and promoting the careers of talented young classical musicians from all over the world...
. She has been awarded fellowships from the Earhart
Earhart Foundation
The Earhart Foundation is a private charitable foundation that funds research and scholarship. It was founded in 1929 by oil executive Harry Boyd Earhart.- History :...
and Bradley Foundation
Bradley Foundation
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a conservative foundation with about half a billion US dollars in assets. According to the Bradley Foundation 1998 Annual Report, it gives away more than $30 million per year...
s, and was a member of Astral Artists.
In her role as Artistic and Executive Director of the Dolce Suono Ensemble, which she founded in Philadelphia in 2005, Stillman has presided over its establishment as a highly regarded and pioneering force in the music world. Dolce Suono Ensemble informs and enriches people’s lives through chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
, with dynamic performances, innovative programming, the commissioning and performance of important contributions to the chamber music repertoire, and the engagement of diverse communities through educational and outreach events. Dolce Suono’s active commissioning program has led to the creation of 21 new works in six years. Commissioned composers include Richard Danielpour
Richard Danielpour
Richard Danielpour is an American composer.-Biography:Danielpour is born of Persian/Jewish descent. He studied at Oberlin College and the New England Conservatory of Music, and later at the Juilliard School of Music, where he received a DMA in composition in 1986...
, Steven Mackey
Steven Mackey
Steven Mackey is an American composer, guitarist, and music educator.-Life:As a musician growing up listening to and performing vernacular American musics as well as classical music, Mackey's compositions are informed by rock and jazz, though in an avant-garde vein...
, Shulamit Ran
Shulamit Ran
Shulamit Ran is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony won her the Pulitzer Prize...
, and Steven Stucky
Steven Stucky
Steven Stucky is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer.Stucky was born in Hutchinson, Kansas. At age 9, he moved with his family to Abilene, Texas, where, as a teenager, he studied music in the public schools and, privately, viola with Herbert Preston, conducting with Leo Scheer, and...
, and guest composers have included George Crumb
George Crumb
George Crumb is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres, alternative forms of notation, and extended instrumental and vocal techniques. Examples include seagull effect for the cello , metallic vibrato for the piano George Crumb (born...
and Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist. He is best known and most praised for his song settings.-Life:...
. Dolce Suono Ensemble has garnered extensive praise in print, on radio and TV, and been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
and other organizations. Stillman is a founding member of the Dolce Suono Trio, with her longtime duo pianist Charles Abramovic and cellist Yumi Kendall.
On her CD "MIMI," she recorded her award-winning book of arrangements of Debussy's songs, Nuits d'Étoiles: 8 Early Songs (Theodore Presser Company
Theodore Presser Company
The Theodore Presser Company is an American music publishing and distribution company located in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania and formerly based in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. It is the oldest continuing music publisher in the United States.-Theodore Presser:...
). She has recorded for the EMI
EMI Records
EMI Records is the flagship record label founded by the EMI company in 1972 and launched in January 1973 as the successor to its Columbia label. The EMI label was launched worldwide...
, Albany
Albany Records
Albany Records is an American classical music record label focusing particularly on contemporary classical music. It was established by Peter Kermani in 1987, and is based in Albany, New York.-External links:**...
, and Dolce Suono labels, with forthcoming CDs on the Innova and DTR labels. Stillman is regularly featured in the national press, as guest on NPR’s "Performance Today
Performance Today
Performance Today is a Peabody Award-winning classical music radio show, currently hosted by Fred Child. It is the most listened-to daily classical music radio program in the United States, with 1.2 million listeners on 237 stations...
," WGBH Boston, WRTI
WRTI
WRTI is a public radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a service of Temple University.WRTI began in 1948 as an AM carrier current station. It was founded by John Roberts, professor emeritus of communications at Temple and long-time anchorman at WFIL-TV . He'd helped found the School...
Radio, and WHYY-TV
WHYY-TV
For the former channel 12 in Wilmington, see WVUE .WHYY-TV, channel 12, is a non-commercial educational television station licensed to Wilmington, Delaware, USA...
Philadelphia’s "On Canvas" show, and is host and performer on the Musical Encounters TV show and video "The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue....
." She recorded the soundtrack for Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Trapped, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, Tremors, Death Sentence, Frost/Nixon, Crazy, Stupid, Love....
's film "Loverboy."
Stillman is active as educator, guest speaker, and arts entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
. She has taught masterclasses and performed recitals for the National Flute Association
National Flute Association
The National Flute Association , is the largest organization for flutists in the world. It is an association in the United States.It was founded by Mark Thomas.-External links:*...
, New England Conservatory, Eastman School of Music
Eastman School of Music
The Eastman School of Music is a music conservatory located in Rochester, New York. The Eastman School is a professional school within the University of Rochester...
, Flute Society of Washington, D.C., Texas Flute Society, University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
, Music for All Festival, and other universities and flute societies throughout the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. She received an MA in history and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
. A published author on music and history, she is a columnist for Flutewise Magazine (UK). She won Astral Artists, which furthered her early career as a member of their roster.
Orchestrally, Stillman has performed as substitute flutist in The Philadelphia Orchestra, and has worked with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Wolfgang Sawallisch
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Wolfgang Sawallisch is a retired German conductor and pianist.-Biography:Sawallisch was born in Munich, and studied composition and pianoforte there privately: at the conclusion of the war, in 1946 he continued his studies at the Munich High School for Music and passed his final examination for...
, André Previn
André Previn
André George Previn, KBE is an American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world, and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings. -Early Life:Previn was born in...
, Kurt Masur
Kurt Masur
Kurt Masur is a German conductor, particularly noted for his interpretation of German Romantic music.- Biography :Masur was born in Brieg, Lower Silesia, Germany and studied piano, composition and conducting in Leipzig, Saxony. Masur has been married three times...
, David Zinman
David Zinman
David Zinman is an American conductor and violinist.After early violin studies at the Oberlin Conservatory, Zinman studied theory and composition at the University of Minnesota and took up conducting at Tanglewood...
, Christoph Eschenbach
Christoph Eschenbach
Christoph Eschenbach , born February 20, 1940, Breslau, Germany is a German-born pianist and conductor. He currently holds positions in Washington, D.C. as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra and music director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.-Early...
, Yuri Temirkanov
Yuri Temirkanov
Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov is a Russian conductor of Circassian origin.Yuri Temirkanov has been the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic since 1988.-Early life:...
, Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop is an American conductor and violinist. She is the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.In 2012, Alsop will replace Yan Pascal Tortelier as principal conductor of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra....
, and Robert Spano
Robert Spano
Robert Spano is an American conductor and pianist. Since 2001 he has been Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra , and he served as Music Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic from 1996 to 2004...
.
Stillman's 2010-2011 engagements include recitals and chamber music for Bay Chamber Concerts (ME), Ocean Grove Summer Stars Series (NJ), Music for All Festival, Cabrini College
Cabrini College
Cabrini College is a coeducational Roman Catholic residential college in the Philadelphia metropolitan area of Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, founded by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1957. It was one of the first colleges in the United States to make community service a...
, Rosenbach Museum & Library
Rosenbach Museum & Library
The Rosenbach Museum & Library is located within two 19th-century townhouses at 2008 and 2010 Delancey Place in Philadelphia. The historic houses contain the collections and treasures of Philip Rosenbach and his younger brother Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach...
, Hampton Roads Flute Faire, and Dolce Suono Trio engagements for the New York Flute Club, Market Square Concerts, and Bucks County Performing Arts Center, the Young Concert Artists Marathon at New York's Symphony Space
Symphony Space
Symphony Space is a multi-disciplinary performing arts organization at 2537 Broadway on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Performances take place in the 760-seat Peter Jay Sharp Theatre or the 160-seat Leonard Nimoy Thalia theater. Programs include music, dance, theater, film, and literary readings...
and Dolce Suono Ensemble Presents series in Philadelphia, along with touring engagements.