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Maya Miro Johnson (age 24) is a composer-performer-director originally from Salt Lake City whose genre-defying work explores intersections between embodied music-making, multimedia theater, and the history of science and medicine. She has written for Ensemble Intercontemporain, De Orkest Ereprijs, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Sarasota Festival, loadbang, Rock School of Ballet, Barnes Foundation, Moab Music Festival, Baltic Sea Festival, Beth Morrison Projects, and Copland House. Winner of BMI Schuman and Surinach Prizes, she appears on albums #What2020LooksLike, This is America, Manuscripts Don’t Burn, and Hildegard and Her Sisters. She attended The Curtis Institute (BM ‘24) and Lucerne, Cabrillo, Aspen, and Tanglewood festivals. She is currently pursuing a MM in Composition at Yale University.