About

Georgia Markakis Mills is an American conductor, pianist, and maker of classical and contemporary music.

In the upcoming new year, Georgia will lead the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra in a concert featuring Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony and conduct the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra in a program of works by Stravinsky, Copland, Nardi, and Mozart. She will Guest Conduct a concert of works including Reich’s “Radio Rewrite” with Alarm Will Sound and lead workshops of premieres for the International Contemporary Ensemble.

Recent highlights include Guest Conductor of the Grossman Ensemble, Cover Conductor with the New York Philharmonic, Cover Conductor with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and Guest Conductor of Contemporaneous. In 2023, Georgia appeared as the Cover Conductor for the premiere of Dylan Mattingly’s Stranger Love presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Associate Music Director and Assistant Conductor for the premiere of Judd Greenstein’s opera A Marvelous Order with NOW Ensemble, and she led a lecture recital on micropolyphonic transformations in György Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto with Eastman Musica Nova. In 2022, Georgia conducted Nico Muhly’s world premiere ballet Third Bird, directed by Isaac Mizrahi and John Heginbotham, with Ensemble Signal in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process performing arts series and was Assistant Conductor for the premiere of George Lewis’ Tales of the Traveller with TIME:SPANS festival. Georgia conducted the premiere studio recording of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe’s Oxygen presented by Carnegie Hall, and was Music Director of the Rochester Summer Opera’s 2021 production of Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY.

Georgia is a doctoral candidate in Conducting at the Eastman School of Music, where she has served as Assistant Conductor of the Musica Nova Ensemble under the direction of conductor Brad Lubman since 2019. She has additionally been Assistant Conductor of the Eastman Opera Theatre under direction of Music Director Timothy Long in staged productions of Kate Soper’s suite Here be Sirens and Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. Georgia has held numerous artistic direction and arts administration positions: Music Director and Conductor of Rochester Summer Opera, Vice President of OSSIA New Music, Co-Artistic Director of Pulsing & Shaking Festival, Administrative Associate with The Knights orchestra in Brooklyn, Publicity Assistant for Dotdotdot Music, and Production Assistant with Metropolis Ensemble.

Georgia is Adjunct Professor of Orchestration at Roberts Wesleyan University and holds graduate teaching awards in conducting and music theory at the Eastman School of Music.

Upcoming Events

Alarm Will Sound

Guest Conductor for concert program including Steve Reich’s “Radio Rewrite” and works by Texu Kim, Christian Quiñones, and Elijah Daniel Smith

January 12, 2024 in Columbia, MO

Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra

Guest Conductor for concert program with works by Stravinsky, Copland, Nardi, and Mozart performed by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra

February 12, 2024 at the Dr. Philip’s Center for Performing Arts in Orlando, FL

International Contemporary Ensemble

Guest Conductor workshopping premieres by Emily Howard, Sam Salem, Robert Laidlow, Zakiya Leeming, Bofan Ma, and Megan Steinberg

February 21, 2024 at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, NY

New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra

Guest Conductor for concert with works including Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 performed by the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra

April 12, 2024 at Symphony Space in New York, NY

Recent Highlights

Grossman Ensemble

Guest Conductor for world premieres by Sungji Hong, Jeffrey Mumford, Andreia Pinto Correia, and Justin Weiss performed by the Grossman Ensemble

December 1, 2023 at the University of Chicago’s Center for Contemporary Composition in Chicago, IL

New York Philharmonic

Cover Conductor for concert with works by John Zorn, Kinan Azmeh & Layale Chaker, and Unsuk Chin performed by the New York Philharmonic

October 27, 2023 at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall in New York, NY

Virginia Symphony Orchestra

Cover Conductor for concert with works including Ludwig van Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and Symphony No. 7, and Steve Reich’s Duet for Violins and Strings performed by the Virginia Symphony Orchestra

September 14, 15 & 17, 2023 at Ferguson center of the arts & Chrysler Hall in Norfolk, VA

Contemporaneous: Herron & Le Boeuf

Guest Conductor for the studio recordings of Molly Herron’s An Opening Goodbye and Pascal Le Boeuf’s Imaginary Companions performed by Contemporaneous

June 20, 2023 IN Brooklyn, NY

LA Phil: Dylan Mattingly’s Stranger Love

Cover Conductor for the premiere of Dylan Mattingly’s opera Stranger Love performed by Contemporaneous presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic

May 20, 2023 IN Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA

Doctoral Conducting Recital

Conducted Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring

APRIL 8, 2023 IN Ciminelli Lounge AT THE EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra

Guest Conductor for “Chris Thile in Concert” with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra

February 25, 2023 at the Dr. Philips Center for the performing arts in Orlando, FL

Judd Greenstein’s A Marvelous Order

Associate Music Director for the premiere of Judd Greenstein’s opera A Marvelous Order

OCTOBER 20, 2022 IN EISENHOWER AUDITORIUM AT PENN STATE UNIVERSITY

Nico Muhly’s Third Bird

Conducted Nico Muhly’s premiere ballet Third Bird performed by Ensemble Signal in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum’s “Works and Process” performing arts series