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Jordan Millar (age 17), from Brooklyn, New York, began composing in the New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers Program. Her piece “Boogie Down Uptown” was performed by the Philharmonic, profiled in The New York Times, and awarded the 2019 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award. Jordan’s written for New World Symphony, And Play Duo and Chromic Duos, Mivos, Argus and Amoroso Quartets, O Kwarteto, Intersection Music, Face the Music, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Opera Italiana. Accolades include Mata Jr., Bespoken, New York Youth Symphony, New Music Initiative for Black Voices and a 2022 ASCAP Award for Masquerade.