Millicent B. James Recordings

With ‘a distinctive approach to storytelling’ and creating music which has ‘a thoroughgoing disregard for genre’ (Pinkwafer.club), Millicent B. James is an award-winning composer, arranger, performer and artist who combines gospel, jazz cinematic and afro-futurism to create a myriad of sonorities in her music. Millicent was awarded the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Composition Prize in 2021. Millicent has been commissioned by the BBC to arrange three pieces for BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room Session with Lemar. She recently performed her new commission Come Show Them the River with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, where it received 4-star reviews from the Guardian and The Daily Telegraph.

Millicent’s music has also been commissioned by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group for the Commonwealth Games Festival 2022, Sister Music, NMC Recordings, Spitalfields Music Festival, Manasamitra Mentoring Scheme and National Youth Choirs of Great Britain as part of the Young Composer’s Scheme 2023.