Cathy Milliken

• Wendengesang (Leaving Heart) (2016)
• Wendengesang (Leaving Heart) (2016)
• Split by two (2012)
• Wendengesang (Leaving Heart) (2016)
• Split by two (2012)

2021

• Dulab Al Paloma

  A film for ARTE by Uli Aumüller with music by Cathy Milliken, Dietmar Wiesner, Uli Aumüller and
  Improvisations by Ensemble Extrakte and Guests.

2020

• Dulab Al Taj

  A film for ARTE by Uli Aumüller with music by Cathy Milliken, Uli Aumüller and
  improvisations by Ensemble Extrakte.

2018

• Shoes

  for clarinet, percussion, zheng and electronics.
  Music to the film "Shoes" by Lois Weber.
  Commissioned and produced by Arte.
  Premiere 8.3.2018

• Suspense

  for clarinet, percussion, zheng and electronics.
  Music to the film "Suspense" by Lois Weber.
  Commissioned and produced by Arte.
  Premiere 8.3.2018

2016

• Wendengesang (Leaving Heart)

  for soprano and violin.
  A musical theatre Installation for soprano and violin.
  Commissioned by the Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival.
  Premiered by Frauke Aulbert and Elfa Run Kristinsdottir
  25.6.2016

2012

• Split by two

  Music theatre piece based on texts by John Berger
  for two voices, oboe, recorders, mouth organs, sampler
  by Kate Strong/Cathy Milliken
  Premiere 30.8.2012 at the Ankunft Bahnhof Festival, Berlin
  Soloists: Kate Strong and Cathy Milliken

2004

• Filmstudie

  for trombone, cello, bass guitar, piano, two percussion
  commissioned by Ensemble Ascolta, Stuttgart, for the film of the same name by Hans Richter
  (DVD: Arte TV)

2003

• A Musical Fantasy

  Theatre version of the radio plays "Denotaion Babel" and "Cosmic Memos"
  Direction/composition: Kretzschmar/Milliken/Wiesner
  Schauspiel Frankfurt

• Antigone

  for voices and diverse instruments played by actors.
  Choral composition for "Antigone" based on Sophocles/Hölderlin
  Schauspiel Frankfurt, director: Wanda Golonka

• India Song

  for tenor, viola, tape.
  Composition for "India Song" by Marguarite Duras
  Schauspiel Frankfurt, director: Wanda Golonka

2002

• L'invitation au Voyage

  Silent film music to L'invitation au Voyage by Germaine Dulac.
  for clarinet, trumpet, two percussion, piano, viola and violoncello.
  Premiered during the Germain Dulac Retrospective, Frankfurt
  2006 produced by Arte TV

2001

• Hamletink

  Music theatre piece based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  for actor, horn, two violoncello, sampler, percussion, tape, video
  Commissioned by Wissenschaftstadt Darmstadt
  Producer: International Music Institute, Darmstadt
  Co-producers: ZKM, Karlsruhe and "The Australia Council for the Arts Funding Body"

• La Vie de Bohème

  Based on the film of the same name by Aki Kaurismäki, and the novel "Scenes of Bohemian Life, Paris" by Henri Murger
  Composition: HCD Productions (Hermann Kretzschmar, Cathy Milliken, Dietmar Wiesner), director Andre Wilms

1997

• Theatre music for "Susannah Andler"

  for soprano saxophone, viola, double bass.
  Incidental music for Marguerite Duras' "Susannah Andler".
  Chichester Festival Theatre, GB, director: Lindy Davies

1995

• Theatre music for "Scenes from an Execution"

  for violoncello and sampler. Incidental music for "Scenes from an Execution" by Howard Barker. Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney, director Lindy Davies.