Maya Miro Johnson is a composer-performer-director whose multidisciplinary work explores the visceral intersections of the social and physical body with illness, technology, movement, and dramatic storytelling. Notable for synthesizing diverse training in composition, dance, theater, classical violin, conducting, and multimedia from a disability lens, her work has been presented across the world, from the Colorado River of southern Utah to Svalbard, Tokyo, Paris, and New York City by leading artists and ensembles such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, De Orkest Ereprijs, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Sarasota Festival, loadbang, Tanglewood Music Center, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival, baritone Evan Gray, Next Festival of Emerging Artsts, members of Ensemble Moderne, soundSCAPE, Rock School of Ballet, Barnes Foundation, Moab Music Festival, Baltic Sea Festival, Beth Morrison Projects, Kronos Quartet, Lucerne Festival, Kajimoto, Line Upon Line, Arctic Chamber Orchestra, CUNY Dance Initiative Residency, and Copland House.

Recipient of a 2026 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Award and the 2026 Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize in the BMI Foundation Composer Awards, semi-finalist in BMP’s 2021 Next Gen competition, runner-up in the 2024 Élan Awards, honorable mention in 2024 NYYS First Music commissions, and winner of both 2020 BMI Schuman and Surinach Prizes (a historical first), she appears on HOCKET’s #What2020LooksLike, Johnny Gandelsman’s This is America, Inna Faliks’ Manuscripts Don’t Burn, and Katelyn Bouska’s Hildegard and Her Sisters; a debut solo album with Catalan record label Protomaterial Records is forthcoming. She has also served as a cover conductor for the Minnesota Orchestra in 2022, including BIS Records’ Mahler Symphony No. 8 with Osmo Vänska.

Major works include a violin concerto for Emma Meinrenken, an opera with Christina Herresthal, and an ongoing collaboration with choreographer Claude “CJ” Johnson.