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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 (Washington Flute Society), 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.    

Young Concert Artists: http://www.yca.org/stillman.html (with link to Yamaha website)
Flutewise Magazine UK: http://www.flutewise.com/mimi.html