Merrill Collins

Composer Merrill Collins has created a wide body of work that engages listeners and communities alike, with a heart-centered mission for global harmony and humanist evolution. Three multimedia pieces and humanitarian projects that were produced internationally later became published as the We Agree! music books that teach about key world agreements: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, and Toward a Global Ethic: An Initial Declaration. Merrill's works have been performed for the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations, UNCHR Human Rights Day, Amnesty International, United Way, UN World Habitat Day, Earth Day. Her production of Minute of Silence was featured in three languages in a global broadcast for the International Day of Peace. Merrill received a Global Peace Song Award in 2016 for her composition "Every Man, Woman, and Child," which was included on the 2017 Project Peace on Earth compilation. Merrill is a voting member of the Grammy Foundation (NARAS), and her volumes of neoclassical piano music in collaboration with world class artists can be found on her personal and label websites.