Elma Miller

Elma Miller (born August 6, 1954) is a Canadian musician, composer, writer and educator.

Biography

Education Miller was born in 1954 in Toronto, Ontario. In 1977, she received a BMus and MMus from the University of Toronto. During that time, she studied composition under Walter Buczynski, John Beckwith, Lothar Klein, John Weinzweig and Bogusław Schaeffer. Miller studied piano with Elaine Keillor from 1975 to 1978, and electronic/computer music with Gustav Ciamaga, Bill Buxton, John Chowning and Leland Smith. She also studied aesthetics with Geoffrey Payzant and media with Marshall McLuhan.

Title Date Instrumentation Margarita 1979-1980 Chamber Ensemble Kriss Kringle's wolka paltz 1977 Flute, viola, trombone, and percussion Things are not what they appear 1981 4 French horns Le phenix 1980 Trombone and marimba The dachshund 1975 Voice and piano Farce 1979 Concrete tape Pink champagne 1976 Electric tape Vinderdi vaenderdi 1975 Clarinet and French horn Chick 1977 3 percussion Jabberwocky 1980 Baritone, piano

Awards In 1980, Miller won the Swedish Els Kaljot-Vaarman prize for chamber music. In 1981, she won the Sir Ernest MacMillan Award (bronze) by the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada for her orchestral composition Genesis. In 1997, she received honourable mention in the R. Murray Schafer International competition for Music and Play for her composition Butterfly Garden. She also won an Estonian cultural committee in Canada award, as well as an Estonian orchestral award in 1975.