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Flutist MIMI STILLMAN performs extensively as soloist and chamber player in the United States and Europe. “A magically gifted flutist”, said The Washington Post of her recent highly acclaimed recital at the Kennedy
Center. “Technically agile and imaginative in her use of color”, (The New York
Times), Ms. Stillman is “a seasoned artist of spirited, unbridled virtuosity.” (NY Concert Review).

Ms. Stillman made her New York debut at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in October 2000, and has given recitals in New York, Philadelphia, Boston,Washington, DC, Texas, California, Italy and Switzerland. She has performed
as soloist with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle in Durham, NC, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica Carlos Chávez in Mexico City, Philadelphia Classical Symphony and other orchestras. Ms. Stillman is substitute flutist with The Philadelphia Orchestra and principal flute of the Mexico-Philadelphia Ensemble.

At 12, Ms. 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 won
the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the youngest wind player ever to do so.

Ms. Stillman has given recitals and taught masterclasses for the National Flute Association, Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair (Flute Society of Washington), Arizona Flute Society, Mid-South Flute Society, Longy School of Music in
Cambridge, MA, University of Maryland, University of Georgia, and Oklahoma City University. She is on the faculty of the Western Connecticut State University Summer Flute Institute and the International Clarinet and
Saxophone Connection Festival at New England Conservatory, and teaches privately in Philadelphia.

Dedicated to chamber music, Ms. Stillman founded the Composers from Curtis Chamber Ensemble. As a champion of contemporary music, she gave the world or local premières of works by Martin Amlin, Lowell Liebermann, Jennifer
Higdon, Richard Danielpour, Augusta Read Thomas, Robert Maggio, and Eugenio Toussaint.

Her numerous radio and TV appearances include recitals and interviews on NPR’s “Performance Today” and WGBH Boston. She was host and performer on the Musical Encounters TV show and video “The Magic Flute” on PBS.

Her 2002 appearances include recitals, concertos and masterclasses in Washington, DC, Boston, VA, PA, NC, OH, NJ, and CT. Her book of arrangements of Debussy Songs for Flute and Piano will be published by the Theodore
Presser Company in 2002. Ms. Stillman is a columnist for Flutewise Magazine UK. She is a graduate student in history at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mimi Stillman is represented by Young Concert Artists and is a Yamaha Performing Artist and Clinician.

"Mimi Stillman shone in her widely varied program. In Henri Dutilleux's 'Sonatine,' original phrases flew by with a crystalline sharpness, even quirkiness, that Stillman caught adroitly. Two unaccompanied - and fascinating - flute solos followed: 'Winter Spirits' of Katherine Hoover (b.1937) and a couple of the 'Etudes tanguistiques' by the late, great tango master Astor Piazzolla. Stillman's tone was uncommonly persuasive in the Hoover work, while the Piazzolla showed her ability to parry competing musical voices against the Latin American's savvy syncopations."

"Stillman starred in her ravishing account of the neo-romantic Amatzinac, by the Mexican composer Moncayo."

"With Lorenzo Muti and Chamber Orchestra of the TriangleGuest soloist, 18-year-old flutist Mimi Stillman, who made it a special afternoon, playing with an effortless grace and eager delight. She plays with enormous confidence and, more important, with a deep, natural musicality, and gave every fancy run of notes a musical point. And the cadenzas in the two Mozart concertos were marvelous."

"In the Casadesus Sonata for Flute and Piano, Mimi Stillman offered a triumphant reading that virtually "blew me away"."

"On a découvert ainsi une étonnante flûtiste de seize ans, Mimi Stillman, premier pupitre de l'orchestre." [We discovered an astonishing 16 year-old flutist, Mimi Stillman, principal flute of the orchestra."]

"Mimi Stillman was the soloist in the Mozart Flute Concerto, and she played exquisitely. Her sense of phrasing was the epitome of lyricism, yet she invested every phrase with rhythmic vitality and personal distinction. She delineated the shifts between darkness and brightness in the moods of the music, yet she made both aspects of the composer's vision flow, one into thenext, with seamless integrity."

"In the Casadesus Sonata for Flute and Piano, Mimi Stillman offered a triumphant reading that virtually "blew me away".

"It was a rare treat, too, to experience both of Mozart's concerti for flute in one sitting. The musical results-technically and artistically-were exalted throughout, for she produced some of the most beautiful tone, some of the most clear and accurate articulations I have ever heard issue from any
flute."

"An impressive flute recital. In the Dutilleux Sonatine and Bach's Eb Sonata, waves of notes flying over the audience showed flawless preparationMimi Stillman interpreted Bozza's Image with a maturity beyond her sixteen years. Beautiful cascades of notes fell into expertly prepared phrases. Her playing was a transfer of energy from herself (or some higher source) to the audience. Her extremely strong tone emerged in the Burton Sonatine. A genuine joyfulness was communicated through her interpretation. She had exquisite articulation and perfect timingA new teen idolMimi's tone color changes were remarkable. She changed from a cutting, edgy tone to purity in a second."

Mimi Stillman

(Ms. Stillman's masterclass at Rhodes, February 2000.)

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