Mimi Stillman


Mimi Stillman is a professional concert flutist.

Career

Stillman was born in Boston, Massachusetts. At 12, and was the youngest wind player ever admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Julius Baker and Jeffrey Khaner and obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in 1999.
Stillman received an MA in history and was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.
Regarding her performances, the New York Times has described her as "a consummate and charismatic performer." In 2012, she received the Women in the Arts award from Women for Greater Philadelphia.
She founded the Dolce Suono Ensemble in Philadelphia in 2005 and remains its executive and artistic director. The ensemble's commissioning program has led to the creation of 71 new works in 20 years.
In 2025, Mimi joined The Barnes Foundation as instructor on art and music.
On August 22, 2012, the 150th anniversary of Debussy's birth, she embarked on a project she titled "Syrinx Odyssey," with the goal to record herself playing her solo flute work Syrinx every day for a year, filmed in different locations over 366 days, with each new video performance posted online every day.
In 2013, Stillman became the first Shirley and Sid Curtiss Distinguished Faculty Chair, chamber music coach, and lead faculty member of the Settlement Music School's Shirley Curtiss Center for Woodwind Studies. She left the position in 2015.
In 2014, Stillman was inducted as an honorary member in Sigma Alpha Iota, together with Jennifer Higdon.

Selected publications

Mimi Stillman, Huldah for Solo Flute
Claude Debussy, Nuits d'étoiles: Eight Early Songs, arr. Mimi Stillman for flute and piano.
Mimi Stillman, "Debussy, Painter of Sound and Image", Flute Quarterly : 41-46.
Mimi Stillman, "The Music of Dante's Purgatorio", 1, no. 1 : 13-21.
Mimi Stillman, , NewMusicBox, 11 June 2012.
Mimi Stillman, "", The Flutist Quarterly

Selected recordings

  • Zhou Tian's Concerto for Flute and Orchestra on Aspire: "The President's Own" at 225 - Vol. 2
  • American Canvas, Dolce Suono Trio premiere recordings by Jennifer Higdon, Shulamit Ran, Zhou Tian, Andrea Clearfield
  • Freedom: Premiere recordings by Richard Danielpour, David Finko, and Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Mimi Stillman, flute and Charles Abramovic, piano, with Yumi Kendall, cello. Innova Recordings, 2015.
  • Odyssey: 11 American Premieres for Flute and Piano, Mimi Stillman, flute, Charles Abramovic, piano, 814.
  • The Concertos of David Finko / Mimi Stillman, piccolo, with Orchestra 2001 and James Freeman, conductor. Centaur, 2013.
  • Jeremy Gill, Chamber Music, TROY1067.
  • Notes: Music from Four Continents, Mimi Stillman, flute, Allen Krantz, guitar. Direct-to-Tape DTR2021.
  • Mimi: Debut Solo Recording with Charles Abramovic, piano. Music by Poulenc, Debussy, premieres by Daniel Dorff and Lawrence Ink, Astor Piazzolla, and Brazilian choros. Dolce Suono, 2004.
  • Video recording of George Crumb's "Vox Balaenae" for Curtis Performs.