Awards

Timothy Lee Miller | composer

Awards, Honors & Commissions

2000

Commissioned by Keith McClelland of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for The Wayward Cowboy.

2001

Commissioned by Keith McClelland of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for No Way Home: Four Movements for Bassoon, Horn, Cello & Piano.

2009

Distinguished Composer Honorary Prize IBLA Grand Prize World Music Competition for Kid's Play: A Fun Suite for Orchestra.

2011

Commissioned by Keith McClelland of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for A Bushel of Baked Bassoons.

2011

Winner of the International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition for The Garden of Dreams.
Finalist in the International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition 2011 for The Day Is Done.

2012

Commissioned by Micheal Stevens and Anadarko High School of Oklahoma for Song on May Morning.
Commissioned by Dirk Maes and Voces Capituli of Antwerp, Belgium for Jubilate Deo.
ASCAP Plus Award Winner

2013

Commissioned by soprano Laura Alfano-Ishida of New York City for Three Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
ASCAP Plus Award Winner

2014

Co-Winner of the University of St Andrews New Music Ensemble Call For Scores for Canticle of Winter.
Commissioned by Bede Williams and the University of St Andrews, Scotland, for The Traveler: Music for Chamber Orchestra.
Finalist in the 2014 American Prize for Excellence in Composition for Divinitus for chamber sextet.
ASCAP Plus Award Winner

2015

Composition Fellow at the 2015 nief-norf Summer Festival of Contemporary Music in Knoxville, Tennessee, with the premiere of 224 slices of pi by Chris Schelb, flute; Hannah Meyer, cello; Andrea Lodge, piano; and Ryan Patterson, percussion.
Semi-finalist in the 2015 American Prize for Excellence in Composition for The Garden of Dreams and Jubilate Deo.
ASCAP Plus Award Winner

2016

Semi-finalist in the 2016 American Prize for Excellence in Composition for String Quartet No. 3.
Finalist-Honorable Mention in the 2016 American Prize for Excellence in Composition for 224 slices of pi for flute, cello, piano, and percussion.

2017

Commissioned by PARMA Recordings for an orchestral transcription of Branches of Singularity: A Concerto for Symphonic Band by Dutch composer Willem van Twillert.

2017

Composition Fellow at the Wyoming Festival-New Music in the Mountains, Grand Teton National Park, with Carmina solis et lunae premiered by Holly Mulcahy, violin; Anna Kruger, viola; and Rick Barber, bass.
Winner of the Illumine 2017-18 Commissioning Prize for The House With Nobody In It, an art song for mezzo-soprano, violin, and piano
Semi-finalist in the 2017 American Prize for Excellence in Composition for Tears (SATB a cappella) and a finalist for Three Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for soprano and piano.

2018

Composition Fellow at the inaugural season of the Mostly Modern Festival in Saratoga Springs, New York, with the premiere of When Leaves Begin to Fall by the American Modern Ensemble, Francisco Hernández Bolaños conducting.
ASCAP Plus Award Winner
Semi-finalist in the 2018 American Prize for Excellence in Composition for Dappled light 'mid mountains gleams for saxophone quartet.

2019

Composition Fellow at the 2019 Mostly Modern Festival in Saratoga Springs, New York, with the premiere of Something More by the American Modern Ensemble, Alfonsa Piancentini conducting, and the premiere of Concert for Orchestra, Movement 1 by the American Modern Orchestra, John McKeever, conducting.
Dave's Choice Award for Bright Morning Star in the 2019 David P. ('60) and Susan W. Wohlhueter Jazz Composition Contest at Ithaca College
Semi-finalist in the 2019 American Prize for Excellence in Composition for When Leaves Begin to Fall for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and cello.
ASCAP Plus Award Winner
Commissioned by PARMA Recordings for an arrangement of Happy Birthday To You!, which was recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra.

2020

Commissioned by Dan Qiao and Carolyn Rugula for Mirror, Mirror for violin and cello for their Mirror-2-Mirror recording project to be released in 2021.
ASCAP Plus Award Winner

2021

Finalist in the 2020 American Prize for Excellence in Composition for Concert for Orchestra, Movement 1.
3rd place in the 2020 American Prize for Excellence in Composition for Something More for chamber sextet.
ASCAP Plus Award Winner

2022

2023

2024

ASCAP Plus Award Winner
Outstanding Composer at the International Businesswoman’s Awards of the Businesswoman & Life magazine, Rome, Italy.