Musgrave, Thea United Kingdom
(b Barnton, 27 May 1928)
Fanfare 1982
Novello & Co., Ltd. 3’
The Voices of Our Ancestors 2014
Novello & Co., Ltd. 30’
With Narrator, SATB Choir & Organ
Discography
Ensemble release
American Brass Quintet 2020
Wiki Category: Women Composers
Murray, Melissa
Murray, Melissa –
(b 1962)
Brass Quintet No. 1 1988
Oxford University Press ’
Morris, Valarie
Morris, Valarie United States
(b 1949)
Circus 2008
Sandscape 3’
Doors 2008
Sandscape 15’
Nodes and Codes 2008
Sandscape 5’
Morehead, Patricia
Mitchell, Darlene Cowles
Mitchell, Darlene Cowles United States
(b 1942)
Processional and Recessional for an Ordination 1965
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Sound Forth (w/ organ) 1997
American Composers’ Alliance 5’
Southern Harmony 1998
American Composers’ Alliance 12’
Milliken, Cathy
AUS – Brisbane
Official Cathy Milliken website
Works for brass ensemble
- Glockenflugel (2016) for brass quintet and tape
- Espiral (2019) for brass quintet
Biography
Cathy Milliken is an international award-winning performer and composer known for her evocative instrumental and vocal works.
She moves between manifold musical worlds, taking great joy in facilitating creativity and participation. The diversity and relevance of her output has won her international recognition as a leading composer, creative director, educational consultant and performer.
Born in Brisbane and based in Berlin, Milliken completed a degree in Australia majoring in performance (piano and oboe) and continued her studies in Europe under Heinz Holliger and Maurice Bourgue. A founding member of Ensemble Modern, she worked extensively with artists such as György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Fred Frith, and Frank Zappa.
Milliken has composed for concert, opera, radio and film. Commissioners include Southbank Centre London, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Staatsoper Berlin and Musica Viva of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. International participatory compositions include Umculo Festival (South Africa), Future Labo (Japan), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and Munich Biennale. A versatile performer and member of Ensemble Extrakte Berlin, Milliken is known for her sonic improvisations using oboe and voice.
Recipient of several awards, including the Prix Italia and the APRA AMCOS/AMC Art Music Award, Milliken was also Associate Composer of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra from 2018-20.
Miller, Sarah
Milch-Sheriff, Ella
Haifa, 1954
Israeli composer
Works for brass ensemble
- Divertimento (1984) for brass quintet
Biography
Ella Milch-Sheriff, winner of Lifetime achievment award 2022 by the Israel’s composers and authors institue, is one of Israel’s most performed composers in recent years. Born in Haifa, Israel, she began her career as a composer at the young age of 12, graduating in composition from the Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University.
Her work “The eternal stranger” commissioned by the Gewandhaus Orchstra in Leipzig for the occassion of 250 to Beethoven was premiered in Leipzig February 2020 and since then in Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Elbphilhamonie in Hamburg, BBC Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic , the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, and later on in Stockholm Radio Symhpony and Vienna Symphony.
Also commissioned by the Gewandhaus Leipzig the orchestration of Bach’s last fugue from “The Art of Fugue”. This was premiered at the “Bachfest 2019” in Leipzig.
Ella composes operas, chamber, orchestral and vocal music as well as popular music and solo works. Her music is performed widely through Israel, (Israel Philharmonic/ Zubin Mehta and all Israel’s major orchestras and musical ensembles) Germany, (Berlin, Hamburg, Duesseldorf, Bochum, Braunschweig etc.), Austria, Great Britain, other European countries and the US.
She was awarded the prestigious “Israeli Prime-Minister Prize” for her compositional works and the same year, her opera, “And the Rat Laughed” received the Tel-Aviv “Rosenblume Prize” for an outstanding achievement.
from the composer’s website
Merriman, Margarita Leonor
Merriman, Margarita Leonor Spain / United States
(b Barcelona, 1927)
Quinary 1976
7’
Mekeel, Joyce
Mekeel, Joyce United States
(b New Haven CT, 6 Jul 1931; d Watertown MA, 29 Nov 1997).
Homages 1973
12’