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Photography | Alexander Henshaw

Millicent's music has been commissioned by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group for the Commonwealth Games Festival in 2022, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, the BBC Music and Meditation Podcast, The Sixteen (Genesis Foundation), Birmingham Opera Company, Orchestra of the Swan, NMC Recordings, Spitalfields Music Festival, Resister Music, Lichfield Music Festival, the International Guitar Festival, PRXLUDES, National Youth Choir and arranged three pieces for BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room Session with Lemar at Maida Vale Studios in London.

As a multi-faceted musician, Millicent continues to perform her compositions and performs with her band based in the West Midlands, UK. Millicent has always been interested in her Jamaican family heritage, her origin story, the depths of the human imagination (evidenced by the works of Japanese Animator Hayao Miyazaki - Studio Ghibli) African Mythology as well as Cultural Anthropology which continues to inspire her music-making. Moyo, Vol. 1 (2020) & Moyo, Vol. 2 (2021) are self-released EPs which highlight these interests.

Millicent enjoys collaborative work and writing for media projects and in 2021, worked closely with animators such as Ilaina Lowe and Alice Harper on an animated music video (Let Me Be) featured on her second EP, Moyo, Vol. 2. She has also worked with video game developers, ensembles/chamber groups, jazz bands, dancers and musicians such as Xhosa Cole, Germa Adan, Wildforms, Rowland Sutherland, Tunde Jegede and Andy Ingamells.

In 2017, Millicent received a scholarship to study Composition at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where she graduated with a First-Class Bachelor of Music with Honours Degree and was awarded the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Composition Prize in 2021. She received tuition from prominent composers such as Errollyn Wallen, Andrew Toovey, Joe Cutler, Trish Clowes and Richard Ayers. 

In 2024, Millicent received a full scholarship to study a Master's Degree in Composition at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire from the Leverhulme Trust. In 2026, Millicent graduated with a Distinction in her Masters.

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"irresistible gospel and soul"

☆☆☆☆

The Guardian

"modernist complexity with gospel-ish intensity"

☆☆☆☆

The Telegraph

 

“truly cinematic, evocative and compelling”

Ayanna Witter-Johnson

 

"a thoroughgoing disregard for genre makes for an unbridled ride"

Pinkwafer.club

 

"She has seamlessly interwoven a myriad of sounds, drawing inspiration from gospel, jazz, soul, contemporary classical, ambient and afro music, and the result is truly outstanding"

Original World

 

"Her lyrics are beautiful and the vocal delivery interacts with the instruments on an impressive level."

The Jazz Loop

Described as having “a distinctive approach to storytelling” and whose music 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, afro-fantasy and afro-futurism to create a myriad of sonorities in her music. 

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Artwork | Ilaina Lowe

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Photography | Alexander Henshaw

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