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DAVID MULLIKIN: COMPOSER
Mullikin is also a member of the Ariel Trio, ensemble-in-residence at Metropolitan State College of Denver. His compositions for this ensemble include Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird and Fables for Piano Trio. In a 1999 review of the children's CD A Symphony of Story, Rocky Mountain News critic Marc Shulgold described Mr. Mullikin's music as "charming" and "evocative." Perhaps Mullikin's most-widely-known work is his oboe concerto, recorded by Sir Neville Marriner with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. In 2002 David Mullikin was named by the Music Teachers' National Association as the MTNA-Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year. That award was based on his Voice of the River Han. Like A Gray Unsettled Light, being premièred at this Chintimini Festival, it is a cycle of eight songs for soprano and piano trio. Mr. Mullikin is married to Tamara Fahlman Mullikin, violin professor at Metropolitan State College and violinist with the Colorado Chamber Players. They have four children.
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Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1950, David Mullikin holds degrees in music performance from the University of Cincinnati and the University of Michigan. He has been a member of the cello section of the Colorado Symphony (formerly the Denver Symphony) since 1973. Mr. Mullikin is very active in the Colorado Symphony's Education Department, both as a performer and composer. He has produced many works for educational use, including The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Emperor and The Nightingale, Peter Rabbit, The Tortoise and The Hare, and Tunji and The Giant. Mr. Mullikin has also worked closely with the Up Close and Musical string ensemble, for whom he has written Overture for Strings, Arabesque for Bassoon and Strings, Anasazi Twilight and The Brementown Musicians.