Extractions: BLAIR M C MILLEN "...riveting...excellent...a prodigiously accomplished and exciting artist." Anthony Tommasini - Chief Music Critic New York Times ".....Mr. McMillen played with an irresistible energy. He showed both the technique to negotiate this music and the imagination to find its heart." Allan Kozinn - New York Times biography press news schedule ... links Read NY Times and NPR reviews on Blair's February 19 solo recital at Miller Theatre MATA Festival , featuring counter)induction, previewed on May 2, 2004, and reviewed on May 14 by NY Times All rights reserved. Last updated May 2004 webmaster@blairmcmillen.com
Vows: Kay Nagata And Blair McMillen play. Friends of blair Carter mcmillen, a 30year- old concert pianist,describe him as a typically relaxed keyboard player. The http://www.blairmcmillen.com/NYT_Nov_26_Vows.html
Extractions: OME people say you can judge musicians' personalities by the instruments they play. Friends of Blair Carter McMillen, a 30-year- old concert pianist, describe him as a typically relaxed keyboard player. "The lower pitch the instrument, the more laid back the person," said Immanuel Davis, a flutist and a friend. "Oboe players are often uptight people. Brass players are beer drinkers. Blair is definitely on the low-pitch, laid-back end of the spectrum." Mr. McMillen, who graduated from Oberlin and has a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Juilliard School, doesn't know a lot of people who aren't musicians. He says he's spent "the last 20 years in a practice room," working on everything from baroque music to the blues. In January 1999, he left his practice room to hear a favorite Shostakovich concerto performed at Avery Fisher Hall. During intermission, he dropped his program behind his seat and Keiko Nagata, a corporate bond analyst known as Kay and a fan of classical music, picked it up. "I looked around and there was this beautiful woman," Mr. McMillen remembered. "For me, it really was love at first sight. It took about one minute." Both were alone and fell into a conversation, which wasn't unusual for her. "Whenever I go to concerts at Lincoln Center, old ladies or old gentlemen always approach me," said Ms. Nagata, who is 32 and works in Manhattan for NLI International, an asset management subsidiary of the Nippon Life Insurance Company in Japan. "They say things like, `Do you study music?' So I was kind of used to it."
Biobraphical Information, Da Capo Chamber Players Members top of page. blair mcmillen. pianist blair mcmillen leads a variedlife as soloist, chamber musician, improviser, and teacher. Hailed http://www.k-c-p.com/dacapo/html/member_biographical_info.htm
Extractions: A 2002 graduate of the Juilliard School where he studied with Ronald Copes, David Bowlin top of page André Emelianoff top of page top of page Patricia Spencer's A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory, where she was a student of Robert Willoughby, Ms. Spencer continued her studies with Marcel Moyse, John Wummer, and Josef Marx. She teaches flute and chamber music at Bard College and Hofstra University. For more information, please visit Patricia Spencer's Home Page. top of page Clarinetist Meighan Stoops top of page home upcoming events da capo in Belarus ... listeners' comments biographical information da capo links da capo highlights SiteMap top of page
Extractions: Peloquin Pianist News and Upcoming Concerts Listen to an excerpt from the recent "Sounds Fresh" concert (from the 'Quattro variazioni' movement of Stravinsky's Concerto for Two Solo Pianos, 1935) Date Event Details September 25, 2003 88 Keys: A Celebration of the Piano Concert for 21 Pianos Winter Garden, World Financial Center
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Extractions: Lara Downes - has attracted attention as one of the most exciting and communicative young pianists of today's generation, cited by critics for her "breathtaking virtuosity" and "penetrating, sensitive accounts of classical and romantic repertoire". Find out about Lara's concert tours, recordings, news and reviews!
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Counter)induction : Blair Mcmillen blair mcmillen has established himself as one of the most versatile and soughtafter pianists today He was recently named pianist for the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber http://www.counterinduction.com/bio.php?personID=000030
BSM - Blair McMillen blair mcmillen (Piano) BM, BA, Oberlin College; MM, The Juilliard School; DMA SanDiego Opera, Weill Hall, Miller Theatre s Piano Revolution; pianist with the http://www.bsmny.org/mcmillen.html
Extractions: B.M., B.A., Oberlin College; M.M., The Juilliard School; D.M.A., Manhattan School of Music (ABD); studies with Byron Janis, Robert McDonald, Jerome Lowenthal, Joseph Kalichstein; performances include soloist on tour of Japan (with Juilliard Orchestra), Moscow Forum Festival, Concerten Tot un Met (Holland), Minsk (Belarus) Conservatory, Alice Tully Hall, Caramoor, San Diego Opera, Weill Hall, Miller Theatre's "Piano Revolution;" pianist with the composer/performer collective counter)induction, the Avian Orchestra, and the Naumburg award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players; former teacher at Oberlin Conservatory and Manhattan School of Music. www.blairmcmillen.com back to faculty Frontpage Early Childhood ... F.A.Q.
Counter)induction : Blair Mcmillen He was recently named pianist for the Naumburg Awardwinning Da Capo blair McMillenhas recorded for Koch International, CRI, Midnight Productions, Connoisseur http://counterinduction.com/bio.php?personID=000030
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Extractions: Home Ensemble Info Upcoming Events Past Events ... nfo@avianmusic.com musician info www.blairmcmillen.com Mr Sterman is a founding member of the improvisation ensemble Fish Love That, and has been soloist with the EOS Orchestra, Bang on a Can, Music at the Anthology and the International Society for Contemporary Music. As a jazz musician he has performed with many of the all time greats, including Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Gil Evans, Buddy Rich, Ron Carter, Sonny Fortune, and more. Visit Andrew on the web at www.andrewsterman.com ANN CECIL-STERMAN has four solos CDs released on the EMI and ABC labels in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. She has been a regular guest on television on Good Morning Australia and on national radio and has won nine major solo competition in Australia. She has a particular interest in new music, having premiered many new Australian works for Contemporary Menu, Musicus Novus, and with her own ensemble Newbridge whose novel performances of Pierrot Lunaire, in which all the musicians were directed and choreographed, received rave reviews in the Melbourne Age. She has also premiered new works for MATA in New York. Last year she played principal flute with the Philip Glass Ensemble on their tour of Greece and Italy. She and her husband Andrew expect their son, Ravi, to arrive on February 1st.
92nd Street Y - New York, NY - Makor Classical Cafe (10.14.2003) The New York Times called pianist blair mcmillen " a prodigiously accomplished and pianist blair mcmillen has performed as soloist, collaborator, improviser, conductor, and jazz http://www.92y.org/content/makor_classical_cafe_10_14_2003.asp
Extractions: moves from Sunday to Tuesday nights, beginning its fourth season of low-key, high-quality concerts on Tuesday, October 14 at 8:00 p.m. The opening concert of the 2003-2004 season features three award-winning young performers, all members of the New York-based composer/performer collective counter-induction , in residency at Columbia University. Australian violinist Asmira Woodward-Page was named first-prize winner of the 2003 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and serves as and leader of SONYC (String Orchestra of NYC), a conductorless 20-member ensemble. Tokyo-born cellist Sumire Kudo is a member of the Avalon String Quartet and tours with Musicians from Marlboro. The
Coilmp3 Coil (2000). Commissioned by pianist blair mcmillen. Premiered by blair mcmillenand Nathan Davis at the Yellow Barn Festival in Putney, VT on July 21, 2000. http://www.hausemusic.com/httpdocs/Conservatory/ConservatoryMP3/Coil/Coilmp3.htm
Extractions: Coil Commissioned by pianist Blair McMillen. Premiered by Blair McMillen and Nathan Davis at the Yellow Barn Festival in Putney, VT on July 21, 2000. Written in Brooklyn, N.Y. and Greenville, N.C. Originally, the "coil" of the title was an incredibly long string of pitches (about 9 keyboard lengths) that I "wrapped around" the piano keyboard, providing myself with a deep well of raw material to draw from. This was discarded after I worked through many resulting possibilities and was unhappy with them. I then began a piece using symmetrical tetrachords, usually using 4-note chords which had the quality of two notes enveloping two notes snugly (like C-F enveloping C#-E); like measuring cups stacking into each other, or a magician pulling ever smaller hats out of hats. Thus, I retained my large intestine- or accordion-like approach to the pitch material. I still liked the title, so I spent some time exploring meanings of the word "coil." I discovered that Shakespeare used it in a very imaginative way. In his usage, the "coil" is a life conflict a conflict of the earth-bound body. His most famous usage is in Hamlet's most well known "to be or not to be" soliloquy. "Éwhen we shuffle off this mortal coilÉ" means, in short, to die. To Shakespeare, our days on earth seem as if our eternal soul is wrapped in mortal flesh and bones like a coil of material around a core. COIL develops continually, spirals, and grows. The life which flows through it which is also its own unique harmonic language are pitch collections, that are united by one concept: symmetry.
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Extractions: Photo by Gregg Ward Bio In June of 2004, Hause will be composer in residence at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he will present four evenings devoted to his music as performer, conductor, curator, and improviser. This is the latest in a flurry of Brooklyn-related activity, as his Trumpet Concerto was performed by the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra in February, by soloist Eric Berlin. In December 2003 he produced scenes from the third opera, Man: Biology of a Fall , at two Brooklyn venues under the auspices of a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council. Additionally, he served as a Teaching Artist for the Brooklyn Philharmonic Education Program for two years. This summer Hause will fulfill a writing residency at the Edward Albee/William Flanagan Creative Persons Center at Montauk, Long Island. His wind ensemble arrangement of Trumpet Concerto , was premiered in April at the University of Massachusetts, and will be performed at the International Trumpet Guild International Conference in Denver on June 16. His chamber music recently received British premieres at concerts in Winchester, Salisbury and The Isle of Wight. Hause has received recognition, praise, and notoriety for his in-progress opera trilogy
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