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Mills Performing Arts
5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94613
P: 510.430.2191
E: millsperformingarts@northeastern.edu
Past Mills Music Now Guests
We have been pleased to welcome a broad range of composers, performing artists, and musicologists as part of the Center for Contemporary Music’s annual Songlines Series. These past guests have included:
2023-24
Jon Leidecker (David Tudor Composer-in-Residence)
Shauna Fallihee, Miles Graber, Roco Córdova, Brett Carson (Darius Milhaud Concert)
William Winant, with Joan La Barbara, James Fei, & Theresa Wong
Normal (Fred Frith & Sudhu Tewari)
Nate Wooley (Vaux Composer-in-Residence)
Varvara Tarasova (Dewing Piano Recital)
2022-23
Genevieve Feiwen Lee (Darius Milhaud Concert)
Myra Melford, Zeena Parkins, William Winant
Tellef Johnson (Dewing Piano Recital)
Ellen Fullman (David Tudor Composer-in-Residence)
Laetitia Sonami with SUE-C, Paul DeMarinis and James Fei
Raven Chacon (Vaux Composer-in-Residence)
James Fei
Kaija Sasariaho
Fred Frith
Zeena Parkins
Steve Adams, Josh Marshall, John Pearson, Andy Strain, Richard Worn, Brett Carson, William Winant, Jordan Glenn, Steed Cowart
Music of Barbara Strozzi — Victoria Fraser, Nalini Ghuman, Paul Flight, Jack Wilkins, Kevin Gino, Sepp Hammer, Lisa Lawson, Laura Jeanin, Amy Brodo, Jonathan Salzedo, Jon Mendle
2021-22
Belle Bulwinkle, Jennifer Ellis, Kate Stenberg, David Tenenbaum, William Winant (Darius Milhuad Concert)
Sarah Cahill: The Future is Female
Mendi and Keith Obadike (David Tudor Composers-in-Residence)
Nicole Mitchell (Jean Macduff Vaux Composrer-in-Residence)
Samantha Ege (Dewing Piano Recital)
2020-21
Tomeka Reid with Selina Trepp and Adam Vida
Genevieve Feiwen Lee, Melissa Givens, Sara Perkins, Sarah Thornblade, Maggie Perkins (Darius Milhaud Concert)
Tyshawn Sorey (Jean Macduff Vaux Composer-in-Residence)
Brenda Hutchinson (David Tudor Composer-in-Residence)
Christina Dahl (Dewing Piano Recital)
2014–15
Annie Lewandowski and Tim Feeney
The Hub
Shudder: Phillip Greenlief, Kyle Bruckman, Lance Grabmiller
Ken Ueno
PFL TRAJECT
Carl Ludwig Huebsch
Mark Applebaum
David Wessel and composter from the Center for Contemporary Music
Gloria Justen
Gianna Abondolo
Daniel Lockert
Sara Ganz
Belle Bulwinkle
Robert Schwartz
Shira Kammen
John Driscoll
Tim Hodgkinson and Dans les arbres
Jean Madcuff Vaux
Marc-André Hamelin
Eyvind King and Fast Forward
Mills Performing Group with Rozalie Hirs
2013–14
Now Hear Ensemble
Reinier Van Houdt
Jack and Ben Wright
Bonnie Jones and Andrea Neumann
Shackle
Mary Halvorson Trio
David Tudor
Mills Performing Group with Makiko Nishikaze and Lois Vierk
Paula Matthusen
Mills Performing Group with Joan Jeanrenaud and William Winant
Simone Dinnerstein
Eclipse Quartet
Jean Madcuff Vaux
2012–13
Magda Maya and Tony Buck
Keith Kirchoff and Eric Glick Rieman
Bryan Eubanks and Cat Lamb
Luciano Chessa
Bill Hsu
Gregory Lenczycki
Bill Evans
Thingamajigs
Jean-Philippe Collard
Laurie Anderson and Jean Madcuff Vaux
The Adorables
Tim Perkis and composers from the Center for Contemporary Music
David Behrman
Salomé Chamber Orchestra
Farallon Recorder Quartet
2011–12
Jason Kahn
Magda Maya and Tony Buck
Tim Feeney and Vic Rawlings
ANTIMATTER / Xopher Davidson
Josef Van Wissem
Zachary Watkins
Ikue Mori and David Tudor
Myra Melford, Nicole Mitchell, and Tomeka Reid
Mills Performing Group featuring the Mills Percussion Group
Gianna Abondolo
Ursula Oppens
Composers from the Center for Contemporary Music: John Bischoff, Chris Brown, James Fei, Maggi Payne,
Les Stuck
Mills Performing Group with the Eclipse Quartet and Thomas Buckner
Sandra Soderlund