Cathy Milliken

Cathy Milliken completed her music degree in Australia majoring in performance (piano and oboe) and continued her studies in Europe as well as completing her studies in the  Dalcroze Method of teaching music.
As a founding member of the Ensemble Modern, Germany, she has worked with leading composers and conductors of this century including Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Frank Zappa, György Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen (who produced her performance of “Spiral” on CD -Stockhausen Verlag nr. 45).
She has composed for theatre, opera, radio, film and created installations and commissioned include from the Berliner Staatsoper, Staatstheatre in Darmstadt, South Bank Centre London, the ZKM (Centre for New Media) Karlsruhe, The Experimental electronic Studio of Freiburg, as well as the CCMIX(enakis) Centre in Paris. Awards include “Prix Marulic”. She now lives as a composer, performer and educator in Berlin, sharing her time between composing, performing and directing creative educational projects internationally.

Earth Plays 1
"Earth Plays" for Orchestra, is a tribute to the sounds, music and words of people gathering at particular places in the world throughout time. It could be imagined that these gatherings have left "acoustic imprints". The piece is thus a proposal for an acoustic unlocking of these sounds and words once embedded in stone. Earth Plays 1 is the first of four plays and is set at Lake Þingvellir, Iceland evoking images of the reciting of the Laws form the Law- Book, the gatherings of men, women and horses, Bells, a Brass Band, the place, its geography, the the stone…..

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