Jordan Millar is a 17-year-old composer from Brooklyn, New York.

She focuses on symphonic storytelling, using musical elements to convey visual imagery. Her unique aesthetic blends styles from mixing melodic harmonies to discorded notes and weaves together different genres of music to take listeners on a journey.

Jordan began composing at the age of 9 in the New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers Program. At age 10 her work was performed during a Philharmonic Young People’s Concert featuring composer John Adams. Her later piece “Boogie Down Uptown” was performed at the New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert for Schools and Concerts in the Park series and was profiled in The New York Times. In 2019 she received the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation’s Morton Gould Young Composers Award. Jordan was commissioned by the New World Symphony to work with a string quartet and debuted her piece “The Abandoned Castle”. In 2020, she wrote an arrangement of “We Shall Overcome” for the New York Philharmonic’s first virtual performance in response to the pandemic and Black Lives Matter.

As a 2020-2021 Luna Composition Lab Fellow, Jordan was mentored by composer Valerie Coleman. Her piece “Masquerade” was performed by Face the Music at the 2021 Luna Lab Solar Flare Music Festival and professionally recorded by the International Contemporary Ensemble. Jordan received an ASCAP honorable mention for this composition.

She has also written works performed by And Play Duo, Chromic Duo, the Mivos Quartet and the Argus Quartet.

Jordan was also selected for the McDuffie Center’s inaugural New Music Initiative for Black Voices, a nationwide invitational that aims to celebrate and empower Black composers and their music.

Jordan recently co-hosted the New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert “Youth as Creator” celebrating the 25th Anniversary of The Very Young Composers Program. Jordan is also a speaker and enjoys speaking to youth about composition. She was a co-presenter for a workshop at Lincoln Center’s Activate. She gave at Ted Talk at the 2018 TED-Ed Youth Conference and was a panelist at the 2018 Sister to Sister Conference. As a former reporter for Time for Kids and Kids First Media, she interviewed guests including, Pharrell Williams, Mo Willems, Jeff Kinney, Leila Ali, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Zoey Saldana and Hugh Jackman.