Jane Ramseyer Miller

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Jane Ramseyer Miller

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Minneapolis, MN, USA

Jane Ramseyer Miller is an award-winning Minneapolis conductor, activist, and composer. She served as GALA Choruses’ Artistic Director from 2010 to 2024, designing programming for four GALA Festivals in this role. She also served on the GALA Choruses board of directors and has been active in supporting the organization’s mission of utilizing music as a tool for social change and promoting equality, access and belonging.

From 1995 to 2023, Jane Ramseyer Miller was the Artistic Director of One Voice Mixed (LGBTQA) Chorus and commissioned more than 40 individual choral works, mostly by queer and BIPOC composers, during her tenure with the chorus. She has conducted several church choirs, and served as Artistic Director for Calliope Women’s Chorus, TransVoices, and as Interim Director of the Twin Cities’ Gay Men’s Chorus.

Ramseyer Miller especially enjoys creative community collaborations and has crafted collaborative performances with dance ensembles, theaters, non-profit organizations, prison inmates, school youth, and countless individual artists. Through her involvement with GALA and One Voice, Jane Ramseyer Miller has played a key role in promoting LGBTQ+ choral music and community engagement both in Minnesota and around the World. She has been recognized for her contributions to the choral arts, and has received numerous awards and honors for her work.

Jane Ramseyer Miller holds a Masters of Music in Choral Conducting from the University of Minnesota and a BA in Psychology from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. However, she credits her best musical training to growing up in a Mennonite community surrounded by four-part a cappella singing.

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