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Warmly, Mimi

MIMI STILLMAN is one of the most highly regarded flutists in the concert world today. “A magically gifted flutist, a breath of fresh air”, wrote The Washington Post of her acclaimed recital at The Kennedy Center. “A seasoned artist of spirited, unbridled virtuosity”, according to the New York Concert Review. “Technically agile and imaginative in her use of color”, said The New York Times. “A ball of fire in person and on the stage”, raved The Alexandria Journal.

Ms. Stillman has performed recitals at The Kennedy Center, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, the Italian Festival delle Nazioni, and other venues. She has appeared as soloist with The Philadelphia Orchestra and orchestras throughout the United States and Mexico. She is a substitute flutist in The Philadelphia Orchestra.

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 became the youngest wind player ever to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, joining the Young Concert Artists roster. Among her many awards are the Bärenreiter Prize for the Best Historical Performance for Winds and The Philadelphia Orchestra Young Artists Competition.

Respected for her inspiring teaching, Ms. Stillman has taught masterclasses and performed recitals for universities and flute societies, such as the National Flute Association, Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair (Flute Society of Washington), Arizona Flute Society, New England Conservatory, Eastman School of Music, Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, Raleigh Area Flute Association, and University of Maryland. She has served on the faculty of several summer music programs She teaches privately in Philadelphia.

Dedicated to contemporary music, Ms. Stillman gave the world or local premières of works by Martin Amlin, Lowell Liebermann, Jennifer Higdon, Daniel Dorff, Richard Danielpour, Robert Maggio, and Eugenio Toussaint. She is regularly featured in the national press, as guest on NPR’s “Performance Today” and WGBH Boston, and is host and performer on the Musical Encounters TV show and video “The Magic Flute”.

Mimi Stillman’s book of arrangements of Debussy songs, Nuit d’étoiles: 8 Early Songs Arranged for Flute and Piano, is published by the Theodore Presser Company. She is a columnist for Flutewise Magazine UK and a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mimi Stillman is a Yamaha Performing Artist and Clinician.