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I'm a professional songwriter and music composer for all kinds of different genres and purposes. This page features music from jobs only. If you are interested in my free projects, check out Spoq and PNFA.

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.

I’m just a guy trying to make cool stuff before the heat death of the universe. Occasionally, I succeed. Hopefully this is one of those times.

	A former A. J. Fletcher Performing Arts Scholar at UNC-Chapel HIll, Patrick Willard has toured Mexico, the Caribbean and South America as a performing artist and member of the National Youth Choir of Argentina.

	Patrick composed music for his first film, PSYCHOTIC, in 2002. He then became the Assistant to the Vice President of Business Affairs at Universal Music Publishing Group, and subsequently, the Coordinator of Film and TV Licensing at Disney Music Group. MTV Networks recruited Patrick to coordinate production on several reality television shows including “Living Lahaina.” He is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film Music Composition at the UNC School of the Arts.

	In 2015 Patrick teamed up with award-winning film director, Alex Moratto, on his short documentary trilogy, SURVIVING SUICIDE, which premiered at The Huffington Post online. Their most recent film collaboration, QUAL E O MEU BRASIL?, premiered in March 2016 at the Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Quebec. Patrick also recently collaborated with three filmmakers at the Wake Forest University Documentary Film Program, composing and conducting an original score for the short documentary film, SOUL CITY—“a historical documentary about a multiracial utopia in the heart of Klan Country, NC.”

Email at willard.pd@artist.uncsa.edu


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