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Guest Artist 2012

Susan Milan

Susan Milan is a Professor of the Royal College of Music. She was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Music, which was presented to her by HRH Prince Charles in November, 1999. She has a career as an orchestral guest principal, chamber musician, soloist, teacher and lecturer. She is often featured on the BBC and has recorded concertos, duos and chamber music for the Chandos, Hyperion, Da Capo, Omega, Carla and ASV labels. In Great Britain she has performed concertos with all the major orchestras and she tours frequently throughout Europe, USA, Australia and the Far East.

She has given numerous world and UK premieres and has inspired contemporary composers to write for her, among them Richard Rodney Bennett, Antal Dorati, Carl Davis, Jindrich Feld, Edwin Roxburgh, Robert Saxton, Ole Schmidt, Robert Simpson and Cecilia McDowall, Ian Finney and Brian Lock. She performs with ensembles , Instrumental Quintet of London : flute, violin, viola, cello and harp,; Debussy Ensemble : flute, viola and harp; Milan Trio : flute, cello and piano; and in duos with the pianist Andrew Ball and the harpist Ieuan Jones. In the academic field, she has researched and published 19th century repertoire for Boosey & Hawkes, written a number of technical books and is presently restoring her collection of historic 78 recordings of flautists 1910-1945 and issuing them on the Master Classics label.

 

 

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