Richard Pierce Milner

Richard Pierce Milner’s compositions have been broadcast nationally in the United States over National Public Radio and PBS, and have been performed at Lincoln Center in New York. Solo appearances have included piano concerts at Carnegie Recital Hall, and the Merkin, Columbia and Symphony Space concert halls in New York City, the Eubie Blake Center in Baltimore, the Maria Chailloux Gallery in Amsterdam, and the Casa Del Lago, Bosque Chapultepec in Mexico City. He has also written for the Martha Graham Dance Company, has been a guest composer at the University of Illinois, and an exhibiting artist in residence at the Stedelijk Museum of Art in Holland. In New Mexico, Milner has performed solo piano concerts at the Harwood in Taos, Santuario Guadalupe and the Rutherford Gallery in Santa Fe, and the Kimo Theater in Albuquerque. Milner has recorded two CDs. “Breaking Through,” recorded live at Symphony Space in New York City, and “Other Ways of Knowing” recorded at concert halls in Durham, North Carolina and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a former Artist in Residence at Na Bolom, an historic inn and cultural center in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, a Spanish colonial city in the Mayan Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. In the summer of 2013, Richard was Artist in Residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico. A Fine Arts graduate of the University of New Mexico, Milner was co-director and co-composer of “Reincarnation Auditions: Unlimited Company” a modern dance troupe that presented performances at UNM’s Keller Hall, and in shopping malls, laundromats, and parking lots in Chicago and Albuquerque. Their production ”Even Atom” was broadcast over WTTW-TV in Chicago and KOB-TV in Albuquerque. And was later featured in their exhibition “The Space Between the Sea and the Sky” in Amsterdam. Milner continued with the company in the Netherlands with presentations at de Kosmos and Paradiso theaters in Amsterdam. As a filmmaker, Richard has been a producer and director for ABC Television Network News, New York Times Television, National Geographic, and PBS Frontline; an editor of dramas for Hollywood studios and ABC Television Network Entertainment; and an editor of NBC and PBS network television documentaries, specials and series. Milner was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which was the earliest and most lasting influence on his music. He has also lived in Amsterdam, Holland; Taos, New Mexico; New York City and Saranac Lake, New York; Durham, North Carolina; Des Moines, Iowa; Athens, Ohio, and San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico.