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Instructor, Voice, Songwriting, Ensembles
“I am passionate about musical expression as a path toward discovery and connection. I believe that songs can move mountains.” —Emily Millard
Emily Millard is a Canadian composer, recording artist, producer, vocalist and music educator. Drawing from pop, jazz, folk and classical traditions, she creates “a complex sonic world all her own” (Exclaim!). She is currently in pre-production for her sixth solo studio album.
As a solo performing artist, and in various collaborations, Emily has toured extensively throughout Canada and Europe. She has released five solo records—four under the moniker Miss Emily Brown and her latest, By Heron & By Season, which she released under her birth name. Her work has garnered nominations from the Canadian Folk Music Awards, CBC Bucky Awards, Vancouver Island Music Awards and Berlin’s Kulturnews.
Emily has composed various commissioned pieces, including “Towards the Light,” which was premiered by musica intima at Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver in April 2022. She recently served as producer for Vancouver artist Amanda Sum’s new album New Age Attitudes (2022), and as a contributing composer for the award-winning feature documentary Geographies of Solitude (2022).
Emily’s training spans classical and jazz traditions. She holds a degree in Music Composition from Vancouver Community College and is an alum of Selkirk College’s Contemporary Music & Technology program. Emily holds a certificate in Somatic Voicework from Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio. She has studied privately with Peter Hannan (Vancouver), Dr. Andrea Young (Montreal), Dagmar Apel (New York) and Sidsel Endresen (Oslo).
Emily is a recipient of various grants and scholarships from Canada Council for the Arts, FACTOR, Music BC, SOCAN Foundation and Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity. She has served as juror for the Canada Council for the Arts and FACTOR, as a mentor for Vancouver Music Fund and as instructor for Rock Camp Montreal for Girls and Gender Non-Conforming Youth.
Emily gratefully lives and works on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Sinixt, the Ktunaxa, and the Syilx peoples, which is home to Métis and many diverse Indigenous persons.