The Mills College Music Department, the Center for Contemporary Music, and the Performing Arts Center present Mills Music Now 2021-2022
NICOLE MITCHELL
Jean Macduff Vaux Composer-in-Residence
Nicole Mitchell is an award-winning creative flutist, composer, bandleader and educator.
Saturday, February 5, 2022
8:00pm PDT
Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall & Live Stream
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
https://performingarts.mills.edu/programs/mills-music-now/index.php
This event is open to the public, both in-person and via live stream.
Registration is required.
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In-Person: $15/General, $10 Seniors/Students, Free with valid Mills ID.
Capacity is limited and Proof of Vaccination is required.
Face Coverings are required, at all times, in all venues.
For more info and a list of accepted documents visit: Mills College COVID-19 Recovery Plan.
Live Stream: Free -or- Pay What You Wish.
Live Stream link will be provided on the day of the event.
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Nicole M. Mitchell is an award-winning creative flutist, composer, bandleader and educator. She initially emerged from Chicago’s innovative music scene in the late 90s, where she became a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and eventually served as the first woman president. Called the “greatest living jazz flutist of her generation” (Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader), Mitchell has repeatedly been awarded #1 Jazz Flutist by Downbeat magazine and the Jazz Journalists Association each year from 2010-2020. A United States Artist Fellow (2020), a Doris Duke Artist (2012), and a recipient of the Herb Alpert Award (2011), Mitchell’s research centers on the powerful legacy of contemporary African American culture. For over 20 years, Mitchell’s critically acclaimed Black Earth Ensemble (BEE) has been her primary compositional laboratory, with which she has performed throughout Europe, Canada and the U.S. As a composer she has been commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Newport Jazz Festival, the Art Institute of Chicago, the French American Jazz Exchange, Chamber Music America, the Chicago Jazz Festival, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and the Chicago Sinfonietta. Mitchell is a professor of music, the William S. Dietrich II Endowed Chair in Jazz Studies and the Director of Jazz Studies at University of Pittsburgh. Previously she was a Professor of Music for UC Irvine’s program in Integrated Composition, Improvisation and Technology (ICIT).
Program:
Cult of Electromagnetic Connectivity
(Stacey Pelinka: flute, Ben Goldberg: Bb clarinet/bass clarinet, Kate Stenberg: violin, Ben Davis: cello, William Winant: percussion, Steed Cowart: conductor)
Procession Time
(Stacey Pelinka: alto flute, Ben Goldberg: bass clarinet, Brett Carson: piano, Ben Davis: cello, Steed Cowart: conductor)
Interdimensional Interplay
(Brett Carson: solo piano with video)
Duo Improvisation
(Nicole Mitchell: flute, Brett Carson: piano)