Mimi Stillman

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Mimi Stillman is a professional concert flutist.

Career

Stillman was born in Boston, Massachusetts. At 12, and was the youngest wind player ever admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Julius Baker and Jeffrey Khaner and obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in 1999. [1]

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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 71 new works in 20 years. [5]

In 2025, Mimi joined The Barnes Foundation as instructor on art and music. [6] [7]

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. [8]

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. [9] 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 ]

Selected publications

Mimi Stillman, Huldah for Solo Flute (2012) [10]

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)

Selected recordings

References

  1. ↑ Lathan, Ryan (2024-03-19). "Celebrating Women's History: Q&A with Mimi Stillman (Flute '99)". Curtis Institute of Music. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
  2. ↑ "Penn historian and flutist shares her 'sweet sound' with community | Penn Today". penntoday.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
  3. ↑ Fonseca-Wollheim, Corinna da (10 December 2013). "Dolce Suono Ensemble and Lucy Shelton at Roulette". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  4. ↑ "About". MimiStillman.com. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  5. ↑ "About". Dolce Suono Ensemble. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  6. ↑ "Impressionism and the Music of Claude Debussy and His Contemporaries". Barnes Foundation. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
  7. ↑ "Modernism Across Media: Joyce, Stravinsky, Picasso". Barnes Foundation. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
  8. ↑ David Patrick Stearns, "A yearlong Debussy tribute: Same flute solo every day," Philadelphia Inquirer (4 Sept 2012).
  9. ↑ "Settlement Music School Faculty" . Retrieved 20 September 2013.
  10. ↑ "Arranging". www.mimistillman.com. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
  11. ↑ ""The President's Own" Marine Chamber Orchestra".
  12. ↑ "American Canvas". Innova® Recordings. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
  13. ↑ "Freedom". Innova® Recordings. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
  14. ↑ "Odyssey". Innova® Recordings. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
  15. ↑ "Concertos of David Finko".
  16. ↑ "Jeremy Gill - Chamber Music". Albany Records. Retrieved 2025-09-29.
  17. ↑ Curtis Institute of Music (2015-10-09). CRUMB Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) . Retrieved 2025-09-29– via YouTube.
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