Commissioned by Standing Wave with generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts

Leviathan, for sextet and electronics

Described as a “rising star” by MusicWorks magazine, JUNO-Nominated composer Jared Miller’s eclectic music is “playful” (New York Times), “hypnotic” (Sequenza 21), “phantasmagorical” (Lucid Culture) and “highly personal” (CBC Radio.) He has worked in collaboration with many ensembles both in North America and internationally including the American Composers Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the symphony orchestras of Vancouver, Toronto, and Edmonton, the Juilliard Orchestra, Cleveland’s Contemporary Youth Orchestra, the Sneak Peek Orchestra, The Attacca Quartet, Latitude 49 Ensemble, the New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute, the Emily Carr String Quartet, Standing Wave Ensemble and a long list of soloists that include pianists Sara Davis Buechner, Jani Parsons, Robert Fleitz and Imri Talgam, and violinist Francisco Fullana. His music has been featured and recognized in the New York Philharmonic’s Biennial (2014), the ISCM World Music Days (2017 & 2019), Vancouver’s Queer Arts Festival (2010, 2015 & 2019) and the Vancouver and Victoria Symphony’s New Music Festivals (2015-2019.)

Upcoming and recent highlights include the US premiere of Ricochet – Reverb – Repeat with the Nashville Symphony, performances of Luster with the Coastal Symphony of Georgia and the Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra, the premiere of a newly commissioned work for the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, which will be toured throughout Canada and Spain in the summer of 2019, and the premiere of Miller’s first piano concerto, Shattered Night, which was commissioned by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and pianist Sara Davis Buechner.

Miller has won numerous awards for composition that include a 2012 ASCAP Morton Gould Award, the 2011/12 Juilliard Orchestra Competition and three SOCAN awards for young composers (2011, 2015 and 2019.) His orchestral work Under Sea, Above Sky, which was recorded by the National Youth Orchestra of Canada was nominated for a JUNO Award in 2020 for Classical Composition of the Year. He has also been featured as an artist-in-residence at I-Park’s International Artist-in-Residence Program, the Banff Centre, and the Avaloch Farm Music Institute. An active pianist, Miller has performed at a variety of venues including Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, Lincoln Center and the Chan Center for the Performing Arts in Vancouver, BC.

As a passionate advocate for musical education and outreach, Miller has taught and performed in several initiatives including The Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Connects Program, the BC Health Arts Society, Vancouver’s Opera in the Schools and for New York’s Opportunity Music Project. He is currently on the composition faculty of New York’s Special Music High School.

Born in Los Angeles in 1988, Miller holds Masters and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Juilliard School where he studied with Samuel Adler and John Corigliano. He has also studied composition with Stephen Chatman and Dorothy Chang and piano with Sara Davis Buechner and Corey Hamm at the University of British Columbia. In 2014 at age 25, Miller was named the Victoria Symphony’s composer-in-residence – a position that he held until June of 2017. He is currently based in New York City where he maintains an active career as a composer and music educator.

Canadian horn player Mathew James currently resides in Calgary. He holds a Masters of Music Degree with Distinction, and a Performers Certificate from DePaul University, and a Bachelors degree in Performance from the University of Calgary. He is serving as 4th horn with the Saskatoon Symphony for the 2015/2016 season. Mathew is interested in all forms of music, with keen focus on electronic and contemporary works for horn.

Leviathan, for sextet and electronics

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