Julia A. Miller

Composer

As a composer, Julia is active with the Chicago Composer’s Consortium and New
Music Chicago, and her first cd of acoustic chamber music will debut on the Southport
Composer’s label in 2010.  Julia’s music has been performed by artists including
guitarist Fareed Haque, piano trio The Lincoln Trio, guitar and mandolin duo Ahlert &
Schwab, and sopranos Toni Arnold and Julia Bentley, and has been featured at such
festivals and venues as the Aspen Music Festival, May In Miami, the Accademia
Musicale Chigiana, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Depaul University,
Northwestern University, and Oberlin University, as well as rock clubs, cabarets, bars
and alternative spaces internationally. Julia completed the composition half of a
double MM at Northwestern University also in 1993, and a DMA in Composition from
Northwestern University in 2005.  Julia has received awards and fellowships from the
Chicago Tribune Foundation, the New York Art Ensemble, the United Arts Council, the
American Composer’s Forum, and Meet the Composer.  Julia is currently a  member of
the composition faculty at the Music Institute of Chicago.