Compositions // Theatre & Film Music
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
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
2007
- House of Voices (Haus aus Stimmen)
Music theatre piece for two voices, countertenor, string quartet, choir and film Libretto: Silke Scheuermann, production/composition: Cathy Milliken/Dietmar Wiesner Premiere: Intermedia Festival, Karlsruhe/HR 2
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 soprano saxophone, viola, double bass. Incidental music for Marguerite Duras' "Susannah Andler". Chichester Festival Theatre, GB, director: Lindy Davies
1995
- Theatre music
for violoncello and sampler Incidental music for "Scenes from an Execution" by Howard Barker Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney, director Lindy Davies