ABRAHAM MILLINGTON

Abraham Millington, formerly affectionately known "Sammy", before as Samuel Abraham Millington. Abraham began singing at age 3 - 4 and was heard singing harmonies to songs aired on the radio, or repeating his relatives who were majority musicians. Of course, his Dad carrying the known musical name Millington in Barbados, could be heard daily singing going about his daily chores.

Abraham mastered singing and playing the recorder from Primary School days at St. Clements Infants & Junior School, later being part of the first Class 4A group of the newly built Ignatius Byer School, before going onto the Coleridge & Parry Secondary School to bloom, with a very early ability to perform virtuosic pieces for trombone. Love's Enchantment by Arthur Pryor, Blue Bells of Scotland by Leroy Anderson, Moreau Symphonique by Alexandre Guilmant, and a favorite past time piece in Song for Trombone and the lead part for Three Jolly Trombones, among many other calypso, folk, reggae, jazz, military music, world music, musical theatre, church music and classical popular tunes.

Abraham attended The International Music Camp in North Dakota in 1999 as a vibrant trombonist still with his High School band, and the Barbados National Youth Orchestra. It was here he met Dr. Robert Gifford who expended his repertoire in traditional military music and virtuosic pieces for trombone. In 2001 Abraham formerly Sammy/Samuel then, achieved the Exhibition Award in Trinity College, London exams for Grade 8 practical exams, topping the marks in the entire Commonwealth for Trinity that year. This achievement ended his High School musical journey. The next step took him into the Royal Barbados Police Force Band, now renamed the Barbados Police Service after Republic Status, where he performed practically all the major challenging works within the Band’s repertoire for trombone.

One of the country's top cultural awards in the National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA), Abraham won in the Governor General's Award of Excellence in 2007 with the piece “Blue Bells of Scotland” by Leroy Anderson. This catapulted his interest to seek out professional academic training in music.

Abraham later expanded his academic scope making the Dean’s in Law & Society supervised by Dr. Lesley Jacobs, and a Master of Arts in Music supervised by Dr. Mark Chambers and Prof. William Thomas, all from York University located in Canada, where he delights to combine SocioLegal research within Law & Society, with Ethnomusicology, understanding both Legal Culture and International Legal Cultures, can be summed up as an anthropological summer of the underlying tenets to understating all cultures, as the artistic and legal fundamentals of each jurisdiction are indivisible.

His aims are to continue challenging himself in Music & Socio-Legal thought, as he prepares for his next phase of life. Special thanks go out to his High School Principal retired Sen. Alwin Adams, and Music Director Joy Knight (also a former Graduate Ethnomusicologist from York University).

Coming from quite humble beginnings, he intends his life to be an encouragement to many to also excel, in times of adversity or serenity.