Ann Millikan
Ann E. Millikan (born June 10, 1963 in San Diego County, California)[1] is an American pianist and composer.
Life and career
Ann Millikan was born in California. She studied music at San Jose State University, where she graduated with a BA. She went on to graduate with a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts where she studied with Morton Subotnick, Mel Powell and Stephen Mosko. Afterward, she continued her studies in African music and classical voice.[2]
Millikan composes in several genres, including orchestral, opera, choral and instrumental, and her works have been used for purposes such as installation, theatre and dance.[2] Her compositions have been called "dynamic and diverse."[3]
Millikan's works have been performed internationally and are widely available on recorded media. She currently resides in Minnesota.[4]
Honors and awards
Millikan has received grants and awards from the following:
- 2011 MN State Arts Board Artist Initiative
- 2010 McKnight Composer Fellowship
- California Arts Council
- American Music Center
- ASCAP awards
- American Composers Forum
- Meet The Composer
- Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund
- Jerome Foundation
- Zellerbach Family Fund
- Berkeley Civic Arts Program
- Waging Peace Through Singing (Highest Honors)
Works
Selected works include:
- Orchestra
- Trilhas de Sombra
- Ballad Nocturne
- Landing Inside the Inside of an Animal
- Red Migration for orchestra
- Chamber
- Thunder Woman
- Kuiper Belt Wamfle
- The Woodcarver & The Blacksmith
- Cantando para a Onça
- Choro do Zeitgeist
- Red Migration
- 221B Baker Street
- Trens Coloridos para Gabriela
- Three Reflections
- K'uei: A SYZYGY
- Theater and dance
- From The Bottom Drawer
- The Color of Blood: Praising the Moon We Are, Part I
- The Medicine of the Spiral
- K'uei: A SYZYGY
- Strings
- From the Bottom Drawer
- Choro do Miro
- Metal Shop 302
- Woodwinds
- House of Mirrors I
- House of Mirrors II
- Calendula
- Suite for Woodwinds Quartet
- Vocal
- Water From Your Spring
- The Medicine of the Spiral II: Quartet Improvisations
- My Island
- Abstrações
- Choral
- grandmother walks, mist rises
- Choro
- Advent Music
- O Sapientia – O Wisdom
- The One Who Is Coming...
- La Vieja
- Song of Remembrance
- Psalm 78: 14, 15, 17-19, 23-25
- Tantum ergo Sacramentum
- Ave Maria
- I Woman
- Opera
- Swede Hollow, music and libretto by Ann Millikan[5]
References
- ↑ "Ann E Millikan, Born 06/10/1963 in California". CaliforniaBirthIndex.org. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
- 1 2 Ann Millikan, Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music
- ↑ Ann Millikan, Playback, Volume 14, Issues 2-4, 2007
- ↑ Lu, Julia (September 1, 2012). "Ann Millikan: On the Move". NewMusicBox.org. Archived from the original on 2013-11-14.
- ↑ Schouweiler, Susannah (4 June 2012), ‘Swede Hollow’ is the subject of a new opera and the site of its premiere