Ann Millikan facts for kids

Ann E. Millikan (born June 10, 1963) is an American composer. A composer is someone who writes music. Ann Millikan creates many different kinds of music, including pieces for orchestras, operas, and various musical instruments. Her music has been used for plays, dance performances, and art installations.

About Ann Millikan

Ann Millikan was born in San Diego County, California. She loved music and studied it at San José State University, where she earned her first degree. Later, she continued her studies at the California Institute of the Arts. There, she learned from famous composers like Morton Subotnick and Mel Powell. She also studied African music and classical singing.

Ann Millikan writes music in many styles. Her pieces are known for being "dynamic and diverse," which means they are full of energy and very different from each other. Her music has been performed all over the world and can be found on recordings. Today, she lives in Minnesota.

Awards and Recognition

Ann Millikan has received many special awards and grants for her musical work. These awards help composers create new music. Some of the honors she has received include:

• 2011 MN State Arts Board Artist Initiative
• 2010 McKnight Composer Fellowship
• California Arts Council
• American Music Center
• ASCAP awards
• American Composers Forum
• Meet The Composer
• Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund
• Jerome Foundation
• Zellerbach Family Fund
• Berkeley Civic Arts Program
• Waging Peace Through Singing (Highest Honors)

Ann Millikan's Musical Works

Ann Millikan has composed many pieces of music. Here are some examples of her selected works, grouped by the type of music or instruments they are for:

Orchestra Music

These are pieces written for a large group of musicians playing many different instruments together.

• Trilhas de Sombra
• Ballad Nocturne
• Landing Inside the Inside of an Animal
• Red Migration for orchestra

Chamber Music

Chamber music is written for a small group of instruments, usually one player per part.

• Thunder Woman
• Kuiper Belt Wamfle
• The Woodcarver & The Blacksmith
• Cantando para a Onça
• Choro do Zeitgeist
• Red Migration
• 221B Baker Street
• Trens Coloridos para Gabriela
• Three Reflections
• K'uei: A SYZYGY

Music for Theater and Dance

These compositions are made to be part of plays, musicals, or dance performances.

• From The Bottom Drawer
• The Color of Blood: Praising the Moon We Are, Part I
• The Medicine of the Spiral
• K'uei: A SYZYGY

Music for Strings

These pieces are for instruments like violins, violas, cellos, and basses.

• From the Bottom Drawer
• Choro do Miro
• Metal Shop 302

Music for Woodwinds

These compositions feature instruments like flutes, clarinets, oboes, and bassoons.

• House of Mirrors I
• House of Mirrors II
• Calendula
• Suite for Woodwinds Quartet

Vocal Music

These are pieces written for singers.

• Water From Your Spring
• The Medicine of the Spiral II: Quartet Improvisations
• My Island
• Abstrações

Choral Music

Choral music is written for a choir, which is a group of singers.

• grandmother walks, mist rises
• Choro
• Advent Music
• O Sapientia – O Wisdom
• The One Who Is Coming...
• La Vieja
• Song of Remembrance
• Psalm 78: 14, 15, 17–19, 23-25
• Tantum ergo Sacramentum
• Ave Maria
• I Woman

Opera

An opera is a play where the story is told mostly through singing, with music, costumes, and scenery.

• Swede Hollow, music and libretto by Ann Millikan