Cassandra Miller

Cassandra Miller (Metchosin, British Columbia, Canada, 1976) is a Canadian composer of experimental music, currently based in London. Her work frequently draws on the process of transcribing various pre-existing pieces of music.

She has received numerous commissions from international orchestras, ensembles and soloists, and has twice won the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music, in 2016 and 2011. In 2019, the editors of The Guardian placed her Duet for Cello and Orchestra (2015) at number 19 in their list of the best works of art music since 2000; Kate Molleson wrote: "Miller is a master at planting a seed and setting in motion a captivating process, then developing it with the most sumptuous conviction." Alex Ross, in The New Yorker, described her concerto for viola I cannot love without trembling as "music of searing immediacy".

From 2018 to 2020 she was associate head of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, leading the undergraduate programme. She has been invited as a visiting professor and lecturer at numerous institutions, including Stanford, Columbia, CalArts, the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Birmingham Conservatoire, McGill University, the University of Manitoba and the Orkest de Ereprijs Young Composers Meeting.