Stir the Sky

Stir the Sky is pervaded with a sense of places visited and people met, a sense of movement and music-making. There's also love, laughter, fond memories and bittersweet recollection. Each track is like a journal extract, a highly personal record being offered for sharing.

Milica Ilic [pronounced Mel-itza Ill-itch] is a classical guitarist who plays a living music that's vibrant, colourful, impassioned and her own. In 2002, when she was just 20 years old, Milica's dazzling musicality and alluring stage presence led to an invitation from the great tenor José Carreras to participate in his birthday celebration concert at Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia. Her performance on that occasion, as on many others since then, was warmly received and critically acclaimed.

Milica is a skilled interpreter of the standard classical repertoire, yet from an early age she has understood that technique is far more than merely a means to replicate familiar material. For Milica technique is a key that unlocks expression, connecting the performance of music to our shared and varied life of sensations and emotions, to memories and aspirations. Now in her mid-twenties she already has a wealth of vivid experience to draw upon in her creative life. From that springs music that's fiery and beautiful, tender, uplifting and intimate.

STIR THE SKY, Milica's new CD, is in essence an autobiographical statement. Like her debut release, Rouge Guitar, it marks a stage in an ongoing journey that has led her from Bosnia, where she spent her childhood, to Australia, where she grew up and studied guitar, to London, the current home for her music.

STIR THE SKY, mostly featuring Milica's own compositions, is pervaded with a sense of places visited and people met, a sense of movement and music-making. There's also love, laughter, fond memories and bittersweet recollection. Each track is like a journal extract, a highly personal record being offered for sharing.

Milica has toured extensively in Australia, Asia and Europe. In 2005 she performed at international guitar festivals in Darwin, Ullapool, Kirkmichael and Ards. She also featured as special guest at a festival in Windsor, UK, hosted by Tommy Emmanuel, Australia's premier guitarist. In 2003 she took up an invitation to perform as guest soloist at 'An Unforgettable Evening - José Carreras in Concert' in Perth, Western Australia. The previous year Milica had accompanied José Carreras in Singapore, as well as at Angkor Wat, and was a featured soloist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Artist

Milica Ilic

Milica Ilic (pronounced Mel-itza Ill-itch) is a classical guitarist who plays a living music that's vibrant, colourful, impassioned and her own. She is a naturalised Australian, based in London.


Track Listing

  1. Sanctus
  2. Merchant Of Edo
  3. Stir The Sky
  4. Espiritu Del Inca
  5. Ides Of March
  6. A Cappella
  7. Cantabile
  8. Evie's Song
  9. Les mouettes
  10. Romany Twilight
  11. My One And Only Love
  12. Out Of The Shadows
  13. Tango Till The End Of Time
  14. Morning At St Mark's

Performers

Where to buy

Stir the Sky is available as as CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer secure online ordering.

Move CDs can be ordered through music retailers across Australia including Readings.

Product details

List price
$25.00 AUD
Release date
2007
Label
Twilight Classics
Copyright
© 2007 Milica Ilic
Phonogram
℗ 2007 Milica Ilic
Categories
Australian, Classical
Catalogue number
TCCD 002
Alternate catalogue number
TCCD002