Kirsten Milenko : Associate Artist
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Artist website: http://www.kirstenmilenko.com
Kirsten Milenko (b.1993)
is a Paris-based Australian composer/conductor.
Milenko
received the 2021 Roche Young Commission, awarded by Artistic
Director of Lucerne Festival Wolfgang Rihm, and is a laureate of
Fondation Royaumont.
In 2020, her debut opera/dance-theatre work Dalloway
premiered at Pulsar Festival (Denmark), shortly after she was
shortlisted to create a new opera with the Mannheim National
Theatre (Germany) with Bea Redweik (librettist) and Johan Klint
Sandberg (director).
She studied composition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music
(MMus class of 2020) with Niels Rosing-Schow, Simon Løffler, and
Jeppe Just Christensen, and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music
(BMus class of 2018) with Liza Lim, Natasha Anderson, Ursula
Caporali and Rosalind Page. She currently studies conducting
(CAS) at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana with Arturo
Tamayo. Prior to her tertiary education as a musician, she
studied International Relations and Piano at the University of
New South Wales with additional studies in French and English
Literature.
She has attended academies and masterclasses with composers such as: Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Francesco Filidei, Dmitri Kourliandski, Catherine Milliken, Mark Andre, Zygmunt Krauze, Martin Bresnick - and conductors: Johannes Wildner, Jessica Cottis, Mark Shapiro.
Premieres of her work have been given by ensembles and orchestras such as: Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Ensemble MusikFabrik, Bang on a Can, Esbjerg Ensemble, Ensemblage, Scandinavian Guitar Duo, Trio Ismena, E-Mex Ensemble, Gildas Quartet, Judgement of Paris Quartet, Adelaide Wind Orchestra, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Wind Symphony - with upcoming premieres by Ensemble intercontemporain, the Ulysses Ensemble and Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen scheduled for 2021. She has performed her work as a pianist at venues such as: Staatsoper Hamburg - Opera Stabile, Associació Cultural Sa Taronja, and as a conductor at Verbrugghen Hall.
Awards: Ignaz Friedman Memorial Prize (2016), John Amis Award, Dartington International Summer School (2018), Ian Donald Wilson Memorial Scholarship (2020).
Kirsten Milenko — current to March 2021
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Selected Commissions
Work | Commission Details | |
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Solace : piano trio (2020) | Commissioned by Trio Ismena | |
Tapestries (sextets: keyboard, percussion, string, woodwind) (2020) | Commissioned by Pulsar Festival 2020 | |
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Lux Aeterna : for percussionist with electronics of Light and Sound (2019) | Written for Bartłomiej Sutt for performances at Pulsar Festival (Copenhagen) and Nowa Muzyka 2019 (Poland) |
d'or : for violoncello & electronics (2019) | Commissioned by Earunit | |
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Speak : vocal ensemble (2019) | Commissioned for Pulsar Festival 2019 |
Opia : chamber ensemble (2018) | Commissioned for Pulsar Festival 2018 |