Cathy Milliken is an Australian oboist, composer, freelance creative director and educational consultant who currently lives in Berlin. After majoring in piano and oboe in Australia, Catherine moved to Europe and continued her training with Heinz Holliger and Maurice Bourgue. She was a founding member of the renowned contemporary music group Ensemble Modern and collaborated with many prominent composers and conductors, such as Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Frank Zappa, György Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
She has written music for theater, opera, radio, and film projects, commissioned by Staatskapelle Berlin, Das Orchester Des Staatstheaters Darmstadt, ZKM, ZKM, ZKM, Concerto Köln, South Bank Centre London, and the Experimental Electronic Studio of Freiburg. Her Earth Plays was premiered by the Symphonie-Orchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks as a part of ZKM in December of 2015. In collaboration with Dietmar Wiesner and Hermann Kretzschmar, Cathy established HCD Productions group.
Milliken served as a director of the Education Program of Berliner Philharmoniker from 2005 to 2012. As a distinguished creative director, she has been organizing events in South and North Africa, Japan, and Israel. Cathy is also an honorary member of advisory boards for the German Music Council and ZKM and works on the creative team of the Munich Biennale for Music Theatre (2016).
2012
Shiiin
DVD-D
1995
Stockhausen-Verlag
CD
Mode
CD
2019
2014
Ensemble Modern Medien
CD, Album
2013
Col Legno, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
CD, Album
2010
Ensemble Modern Medien
CD, Album
2008
WERGO
2xDVD-V, PAL
2007
ECM Records, ECM Records, ECM New Series, ECM New Series
CD, Album
2007
ambitus Musikproduktion
CD, Album
2005
Mode
CD, Album
2005
RCA Red Seal, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Deutscher Musikrat
8xCD, Comp + Box
2003
2002
æon
3xCD
2002
Kulturforum Witten
2xCD, Comp
2002
2002
2002
2000
Winter & Winter, Westdeutscher Rundfunk
CD, Album
2000
Maria de Alvear World Edition
CD, Album
1999
Selektion
CD, Album
1999
1998
Mode
CD
1997
Argo (2)
CD, Album
1997
1997
1996
1995
Largo
CD, Album
1994
1993
1993
1993
1993
1993
1992
hat ART
CD, Album
1992
1990
1986
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
LP
2020
Ensemble Modern Medien
2xCD, Album
2005
MDG
CD, Album
1999
Kulturforum Witten
2xCD, Comp
Ensemble Modern Medien
CD
Ensemble Modern Medien, Ensemble Modern Medien
2xCD
2005
Not On Label (Frank Zappa)
DVD-V, Copy Prot., Unofficial, NTSC
Catherine Milliken
Catherine Milliken
Catherine Milliken
Catherine Milliken
Catherine Milliken
Catherine Milliken
Catherine Milliken