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Mimi Stillman is a professional concert flutist.
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Mimi Stillman is a professional concert flutist.
Stillman was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in 1999. [1]
Stillman received an MA in history and was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. [2]
Regarding her performances, the New York Times has described her as "a consummate and charismatic performer." [3] In 2012, she received the Women in the Arts award from Women for Greater Philadelphia. [4]
She founded the Dolce Suono Ensemble in Philadelphia in 2005 and remains its executive and artistic director. The ensemble's commissioning program has led to the creation of 44 new works in eleven years. [5]
On August 22, 2012, the 150th anniversary of Debussy's birth, she embarked on a project she titled "Syrinx Odyssey," with the goal to record herself playing her solo flute work Syrinx every day for a year, filmed in different locations over 366 days, with each new video performance posted online every day. [6]
In 2013, Stillman became the first Shirley and Sid Curtiss Distinguished Faculty Chair, chamber music coach, and lead faculty member of the Settlement Music School's Shirley Curtiss Center for Woodwind Studies. [7] She left the position in 2015.
In 2014, Stillman was inducted as an honorary member in Sigma Alpha Iota, together with Jennifer Higdon.[ citation needed ]
Claude Debussy, Nuits d'étoiles: Eight Early Songs, arr. Mimi Stillman for flute and piano (King of Prussia, Pa., 2002: Theodore Presser).
Mimi Stillman, "Debussy, Painter of Sound and Image", Flute Quarterly (Fall 2007): 41-46.
Mimi Stillman, "The Music of Dante's Purgatorio", Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies 1, no. 1 (2005): 13-21.
Mimi Stillman, "Philadelphia's Changing Opera Landscape", NewMusicBox, 11 June 2012.
Mimi Stillman, "Into the Light: Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Five Pieces for Flute and Piano", The Flutist Quarterly (Winter 2016)
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