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Elissa Milne (born August 2, 1967) is an Australian-born, New Zealand-raised composer, who has specialised in writing educational piano music.

She studied composition at the University of Auckland (1984-86) with John Rimmer and John Elmsley, and went on to win an Australian-wide song-writing award in 1987 (Operation Young Composer). Later studies at the University of Sydney and the [[University of Technology, Sydney]were in various disciplines, including performance studies, semiotics, education and arts administration. In 1997 her first collections of educational piano music, Little Peppers and Pepperbox Jazz 1 were published by her own publishing company, Pepperbox Music. Faber Music reissued these collections, along with much new material, in the now five book Little Peppers series in 2004, and the Pepperbox Jazz series in 2006.  Hal Leonard Australia commissioned Elissa to create and edit the Getting to.... series in 2003, a series available only in Australia and New Zealand, and which now comprises 11 volumes.

Music from these publications is now included in the examination syllabuses of the Australian Music Examination Board, the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, Trinity Guildhall, the New Zealand Music Examination Board, ANZCA, St Cecilia, and many others.

Elissa Milne has been a regular presenter at all major Australian piano teacher conferences and festivals, and has lectured for the EPTA Piano Pedagogy Course in London (2006), at the EPTA Conference in 2005 and at the ISME Conference in 2006. Elissa has also presented seminars in Malaysia, New Zealand and Northern Ireland.