Paul Miller
paul.miller-2@colorado.edu
Imig Music Building N124
303-492-5292
Mailing Address: 301 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0301
Instructor of Music Theory
Paul Miller is an Instructor of Music Theory (non tenure-track) at CU-Boulder. He holds an MM in viola performance (2006) and a PhD in Music Theory (2009) from the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester) and a Bachelor’s degree from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. As an undergraduate, he also studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and at Harvard University. His research focuses on the music and theory of Karlheinz Stockhausen, post-war serial music, and Baroque performance practice. His work has been funded through the Presser Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Stockhausen Foundation for Music in Kuerten, Germany, and the University of Colorado.
Miller has presented papers at international, national, regional and local conferences in the United States and Germany. His research is forthcoming in a special issue of Perspectives of New Music. He has edited two volumes of essays and texts for the Stockhausen Foundation as well as the score of the viola version of “In Freundschaft”, a work that he premiered in 2005. He was also co-editor of Music Theory Spectrum for two years.
As a pedagogue, Miller won the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Prize at the Eastman School of Music in 2001, and has been an instructor for a total of twenty-four semesters at institutions of higher learning. He has taught at the Eastman School of Music, the University of Rochester, and Temple University in addition to the University of Colorado. Dr. Miller has also taught dozens of young students music theory fundamentals and violin and viola technique. In addition to his regular classroom duties, he advises several graduate students on their Master’s and Doctoral projects.
Dr. Miller is active as a performer of baroque music on period instruments. He has lectured at and performed on instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Other notable performances have been at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC and as a soloist with the Bethlehem Bach Festival in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In 2006, Dr. Miller won a Stipendiumpreis from the Darmstadt International Vacation Courses in New Music for his performances on the viola and the viola d’amore. He will be performing as a viola d’amore soloist with the Philadelphia ensemble Vox Ama Deus in 2012. Miller founded the Denver and Boulder-based baroque music ensemble “Pearl” in 2010, and has several concerts planned for the 2011-2012 season with this independent performing group.
Miller serves on various committees at the College of Music, and on the Program Committee and as the Webmaster of the Rocky Mountain Society of Music Theory.
AUDIO: An arrangement of Gluck’s aria “Un ruisselet bien clair”, for viola d’amore and soprano, by Anton Huberty featuring Paul Miller and soprano Christie Hageman (MM 2010, voice). Miller is playing on a viola d’amore by Martin Biller made in 2010.