Cassandra Miller

Cassandra Miller (b. 1976) is a Canadian-British composer based in London. Her music explores melody, repetition, and the transformation of pre-existing musical material through distinctive vocal and meditation-based practices.

Her works have been performed internationally by leading ensembles and orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and presented at major festivals and venues worldwide. Her Duet for Cello and Orchestra was notably described by The Guardian as one of the best classical works of the 21st century.

A recipient of several awards, including two Jules-Léger Prizes and a Paul Hamlyn Award, Miller collaborates regularly with artists and ensembles such as Quatuor Bozzini, Juliet Fraser, and Mira Benjamin. She is also active as a teacher and guest lecturer at international institutions.

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Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
octoberoct 4
Maison de la musique de Nanterre – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national
decemberdec 12

Cassandra Miller, Florentin Ginot et Katharina Ernst
Music Portrait

Song, singing, whether part of the popular tradition, one of Beethoven’s final string quartets, or music from Galicia, permeates the three parts of this programme. Song that does not belong only to the voice, but also with which the instruments react, as well as the different works, in interaction with each other, thereby magnifying a shared collective memory.
Auditorium de Radio France
octoberoct 16

Cassandra Miller, György Kurtág, Maurice Ravel
Music Portrait

This second part of the Portrait dedicated to Cassandra Miller associates Dad Goes to the Mountain, a quadriptych to be performed uninterrupted, dedicated to her aged, increasingly forgetful father with the themes of childhood and death. It mirrors the arc of our existences, to which Ravel and Kurtág lend themselves.
Église du Saint-Esprit
decemberdec 14

Cassandra Miller, Éliane Radigue, Sarah Davachi, Quatuor Bozzini
Music Portrait

Ease, simple pleasures, oral transmission, time in suspension like a lullaby or the stilled surface of a lake, uncluttered, as if reaching out to a veiled, uncertain origin… And of course, the fertile friendship with the Quatuor Bozzini, a favourite of Cassandra Miller, Sarah Davachi and Éliane Radigue, recently passed away. All the above binds together the three serene works in this concert.