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Ann E. Millikan (born June 10, 1963)[1] is an American composer.

Life and career

Ann Millikan was born in San Diego County, California.[1] She studied music at San José State University, where she graduated with a BA. She went on to graduate with a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts where she studied with Morton Subotnick, Mel Powell and Stephen Mosko. Afterward, she continued her studies in African music and classical voice.[2]

Millikan composes in several genres, including orchestral, opera, choral and instrumental, and her works have been used for purposes such as installation, theatre and dance.[2] Her compositions have been called "dynamic and diverse."[3]

Millikan's works have been performed internationally and are widely available on recorded media. She currently resides in Minnesota.[4]

Honors and awards

Millikan has received grants and awards from the following:

• 2011 MN State Arts Board Artist Initiative
• 2010 McKnight Composer Fellowship
• California Arts Council
• American Music Center
• ASCAP awards
• American Composers Forum
• Meet The Composer
• Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund
• Jerome Foundation
• Zellerbach Family Fund
• Berkeley Civic Arts Program
• Waging Peace Through Singing (Highest Honors)

Works

Selected works include:

Orchestra

• Trilhas de Sombra
• Ballad Nocturne
• Landing Inside the Inside of an Animal
• Red Migration for orchestra

Chamber

• Thunder Woman
• Kuiper Belt Wamfle
• The Woodcarver & The Blacksmith
• Cantando para a Onça
• Choro do Zeitgeist
• Red Migration
• 221B Baker Street
• Trens Coloridos para Gabriela
• Three Reflections
• K'uei: A SYZYGY

Theater and dance

• From The Bottom Drawer
• The Color of Blood: Praising the Moon We Are, Part I
• The Medicine of the Spiral
• K'uei: A SYZYGY

Strings

• From the Bottom Drawer
• Choro do Miro
• Metal Shop 302

Woodwinds

• House of Mirrors I
• House of Mirrors II
• Calendula
• Suite for Woodwinds Quartet

Vocal

• Water From Your Spring
• The Medicine of the Spiral II: Quartet Improvisations
• My Island
• Abstrações

Choral

• grandmother walks, mist rises
• Choro
• Advent Music
• O Sapientia – O Wisdom
• The One Who Is Coming...
• La Vieja
• Song of Remembrance
• Psalm 78: 14, 15, 17–19, 23-25
• Tantum ergo Sacramentum
• Ave Maria
• I Woman

Opera

• Swede Hollow, music and libretto by Ann Millikan[5]

References

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