Delandria Mills
Delandria Mills | |
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| File:Delandria Mills - Prairie View A&M Univ. Alumni Clinician.jpg Prairie View A&M Univ. Alumni Clinician | |
| Background information | |
| Born | Houston, Texas |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Flute, classical, gospel |
| Labels | Ephphatha Queen |
| Website | delandriamills |
Delandria Mills is an American jazz, gospel, and classical flutist, composer, educator, and author.
Life and career[edit]
A classically trained musician, Mills commenced her formal music instruction in piano at age four. She attended the High School for Performing and Visual Arts in Houston. Mills was awarded a bachelor of arts degree in Music from Prairie View A&M University and both a master of music in Flute Performance and a graduate performance diploma from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. As a classical flutist, she has served as Principal of the Baytown Symphony Orchestra (in residence at Lee College), and as an Assistant and later Associate Principal at Peabody. Her teachers include Hubert Laws and Marina Piccinini of Peabody Conservatory. The music of Charlie Parker and of John Coltrane lured her to jazz, and Mills cites Hubert Laws, Freddie Hubbard, and Kim Burrell, as additional musical influences. In 2003, Mills was awarded the top prize in National Flute Association's Jazz Flute Competition which led to her being selected one of six international young women to win the International Association of Jazz Educators' Sisters in Jazz Collegiate Competition in 2005. A European tour followed.
She is the founder and leader of the Delandria Mills Jazz Ensemble, a member of Soundcheck, the band behind gospel acts Greater Anointing and Tye Tribbett with whom she toured from 2003 to 2008. She has also collaborated with gospel singer Judith Christie McAllister. She is the principal of Kingdom Flute Works, a music school in the Baltimore, Maryland area. Mills released her debut album Manifestation in 2009,and she has been featured on recordings by Fertile Ground ("Black Is", 2004) The Kevin Robinson Ensemble ("The GOD Factor", 2004), Adidam ("Adidam" 2004), Tye Tribbett ("Ideas and Concepts, 2004, "Life- DVD", 2004, "Victory", 2005, and "Standout", 2007), and Judith Christie McAllister ("Sound the Trumpet", 2008). In addition, in 2011 she toured with Hubert Laws and in 2012 with tenor saxophonist Billy Harper.
Discography[edit]
As leader[edit]
| Year | Title | Label | notes | |
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| 2015 | Resonance | Ephphatha Queen | ||
| 2014 | Ephphatha | Ephphatha Queen | ||
| 2012 | Just Breathe | Ephphatha Queen | ||
| 2011 | Home for the Holidays | Ephphatha Queen | ||
| 2010 | Be Happy | Ephphatha Queen | ||
| 2010 | Be Opened EP | Ephphatha Queen | ||
| 2010 | Kingdom Goes Classical | Ephphatha Queen | ||
| 2009 | Manifestation | Ephphatha Queen | ||
| 2004 | Stories | Ephphatha Queen |
References[edit]
External links[edit]
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- Musical artist
- American jazz flautists
- American classical flautists
- Musicians from Houston
- African-American musicians
- Women flautists
- High School for the Performing and Visual Arts alumni
- Jazz musicians from Texas
- Classical musicians from Texas
- 21st-century American musicians
- 21st-century American women musicians
- Prairie View A&M University alumni
- Peabody Institute alumni
