Cathy MILLIKEN

Profile

(Composer, Oboe player, Director of the Education Program of the Berliner Philharmoniker)

Born in Brisbane, Australia. She completed her music degree in Australia majoring in performance (piano and oboe) and continued her studies in Europe under Heinz Holliger and Maurice Bourgue as well as completing her studies in the Dalcroze Method of teaching music. As a founding member of the renowned group for contemporary music, Ensemble Modern Germany, she has worked with leading composers and conductors of this century including Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Frank Zappa, György Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen (who produced her performance of "Spiral" on CD -Stockhausen Verlag nr. 45). She has composed for theatre, opera, radio, film and created installations and has been commissioned by the Berliner Saatsoper, Staatstheatre in Darmstadt, South Bank Centre London, the ZKM (Centre for New Media) Karlsruhe, and so on. She is also a leading music educationalist and in 2005 was appointed Director of the Education Program of the Berliner Philharmoniker.