Emily Millard is a Canadian composer, recording artist and vocalist. Drawing from pop, jazz, folk and classical traditions, she creates “a complex sonic world all her own” (Exclaim!). Emily lives in Vancouver where she is currently composing new works, directing and arranging for the Kingsgate Choir and the Mount Pleasant Regional Institute of Sound, and teaching private voice lessons. 

As a solo performing artist, and with her chamber-pop band Morlove, Emily has toured extensively throughout Canada and Europe. She has released five solo records - four under the moniker Miss Emily Brown, and her latest, By Heron & By Season (2016) which she released under her birth name. Her work has garnered nominations from the Canadian Folk Music Awards, CBC Bucky Awards and from Berlin’s Kulturnews for Best Live Show. 

Emily’s latest compositional work Unknown Rivers was recently shown at Vancouver’s Sawdust Collector Series. She was invited to attend the Resonant Bodies Residency at Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity in 2018, where her piece Ropesight was premiered. 

Emily’s training spans classical and jazz traditions. Most recently, she studied composition with Peter Hannan (Vancouver), Somatic Voicework with Jeannette LoVetri (New York), Functional Voice Training with Dagmar Apel (New York) and vocal improvisation with Sidsel Endresen (Oslo). She presently studies composition with Peter Hannan.

"Millard's complex sonic world is all her own. We are lucky to take part in the trip. (9/10)"  

- Exclaim! 

"'Art-folk’ is certainly an apt handle for Millard’s work, as this is a greatly artistic recording, carefully crafted like the considered brushstrokes of a painting."  

- Folk Radio UK