Sarah Miller

Guest artist

Sarah Miller is active as a composer, arranger, performer, and teacher. She has received many grants and commissions, most recently commissions to compose a piece for Zeitgeist to premier in January, 2027 and a piano trio for the Shin-Kim Trio that will be premiered in March, 2027.

She received a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant in 2020 titled “Musicians in Motion at Mia,” a set of pieces inspired by works at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. She has been teaching composition, theory and piano at MacPhail Center for Music since 1997 after receiving her Ph.D. in music composition from Michigan State University. Her students have received numerous awards in composition contests both state-wide and nationally.