Cathy Milliken

• Wendengesang (-Leaving Heart) (2016)
• Wendengesang (-Leaving Heart) (2016)
• Memorial-Traces (for Tohoku) (2011)
• Memorial-Traces (for Tohoku) (2011)
• Messages for you (2014)
• Wendengesang (-Leaving Heart) (2016)
• Messages for you (2014)
• Memorial-Traces (for Tohoku) (2011)
• Messages for you (2014)
• Messages for you (2014)

Upcoming and review- scroll for Compositions

2016

• Fatima Dike - a Radio Portrait.

  A Radio Portrait of the writer Fatima Dike based on Interviews carried out in her home town Langa, South Africa and interspersed with Songs composed by Cathy Milliken based on poetry by Fatima Dike. Radio Play is by Fatima Dike and Cathy Milliken.

• Wendengesang (-Leaving Heart)

  A staged concert piece for soprano and violin. Premiered at the Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern in Wismar by Frauke Aulbert and Elfa Run Kristinsdottir. 25.6.16.

2014

• Messages for you

  A participatory work composed and directed for wind bands, choirs, string students and professional musicians. Including a visual installation with images by artist Chris Wainwright. Performed at the Hojuji Temple in Kamaishi on 3rd November. Commissioned by Future Labo.
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2013

• Catalogue of Blue

  Duo for oboe and percussion commissioned by Christian Hommel

2011

• Memorial-Traces (for Tohoku)

  12 card pieces for 1-15 players/singers
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2010

• Three Step

  for horn, violin, cello Commissioned by Saar Berger, Ensemble Modern

2009

• Knee Piece 45

  for flute, oboe, percussion Premiere Berlin, Ultraschall Festival, Berlin 2009

• Two Step

  for violin and double bass. Commissioned by Zagreb Chamber Music Festival 2010.

2007

• A Slip in the Night Tango

  for trumpet and melodica Premiere: Portrait concert, Dachsaal Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt, by Sava Stoianov and Valentin Garvie

• Cento

  for soprano, countertenor and two string trios Premiere: Ensemble Resonanz and Neue Vokalsolisten im Radial System, Berlin

2006

• Secret Seven

  for flute, oboe, clarinet, cello percussion and piano Premiere Ensemble Modern at a portrait concert, Dachsaal, Frankfurt

2005

• a single climb to a line

  for four tenor trombones

• Church Bell Concert and installation "Von der Freundschaft"

  for the City of Hannover, its Bells, children's choir and handbell choir Inner city and church spires, Hanover, Handbell Choir and the Choir of the International Ecumenical Church Festival and HGNM

2004

• Plays

  Wind quintet (staged composition) for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, also tuned glasses, cow instruments, recorders and mouth organs. commissioned by "Chronophonie", Freiburg im Breisgau Premiere: Museum of Modern Art, Freiburg im Breisgau

• Songs of Love, Songs of War

  Concert pieces for two voices, trumpet, bass guitar, percussion, piano/sampler

2003

• Looks Live

  Concert piece for voice, bass guitar, piano/sampler Theaterhaus, Frankfurt and Hessian Broadcasting

2000

• Cosmic Memos

  for two speaker/singers (male and female), viola, horn, contrabass, percussion, Radio play/texts taken from works by Italo Calvino Direction/composition/libretto by HCD PRODUCTIONS: Hermann Kretzschmar/Cathy Milliken/Dietmar Wiesner Hessian Broadcasting Station/ZKM, Karlsruhe 2000 Radio play of the month 2001 Westfalen jury prize for best direction

1999

• Jet

  for clarinet and tape Commissioned by: CMMIX, Paris premiere, Festival Sons d'Hiver, Paris

• Margaret

  for four singers and piano Based on a poem by Gerard Manly Hopkins Saarbrücken Chamber Music Festival

1998

• 6 Memos

  for flute (also piccolo, alto flute and bass flute) and string quartet Based on "6 Memos for the Next Millennium" by Italo Calvino Saarbrücken Chamber Music Festival (for Mandelring Quartet & Dietmar Wiesner) 12.10.1998

• Hippolytos and Salome

  for flute, oboe, bass clarinet, piano and percussion Adaptation of Paul Bowles' theatre music by HCD Productions: realised from tape of Bowle's synthesizer version and arranged by Hermann Kretzschmar, Cathy Milliken, Dietmar Wiesner. Performance and recording by HCD Productions/Largo Records.

• Mother tongue (Muttersprache)

  for speaker, soprano, baritone, violin, cello, piano, percussion and tape Based on poems and prose by Rosa Ausländer State Theatre Darmstadt; tape realised at ZKM studios, Karlsruhe

1997

• Objects

  for speaking pianist and piano Texts from "Tender Buttons" by Gertrude Stein Kestner Museum, Hanover Biennale

1996

• Melos

  for two amplified timpani and electronic filters (one player) Premiere: Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Peppie Wiersma.

• Palomar

  For Violin and 8-track-tape, based on "Mr Palomar" by Italo Calvino Commissioned by Jagdish Mistrey (Ensemble Modern)

1995

• Journey

  for horn, trumpet, violoncello, percussion, piano/sampler and three school classes of schoolchildren Fantasy/Improvisations based on Franz Schubert's "Die Winterreise" (The Winter Journey) Commission and premiere: Southbank Centre, London

• Sifr

  speaker, flute, piano/sampler, percussion Co-production of CDs with Hessian Broadcasting