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2012. Alex Miller. All Rights Reserved.
Alexander Elliott Miller is a composer, guitarist and educator whose compositions for orchestra, guitar, percussion and chamber ensembles have been performed across the United States by ensembles including Brave New Works, the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, the Quintet Attacca, the What's Next? Ensemble and the USC Symphony, as well as at venues such as the Aspen Music Festival, the Bowdoin Music Festival and the Chamber Music Conference and Composers Forum of the East. In 2012, he will be a Composition Fellow at the MacDowell Colony.
A dedicated teacher, Miller is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Illinois State University in Normal, IL, where he teaches theory and composition. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Southern California, West Chester University of Pennsylvania and California Lutheran University, and in 2010, was awarded a grant from the American Composers Forum to lead an after school music education program, teaching composition & improvisation to high school students in El Monte, California.
Miller holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Southern California, a Master of Music in Composition from the Eastman School of Music, and Bachelor of Music degrees in Composition & Guitar Performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder, with additional studies in Max/MSP at the Center for New Music & Audio Research at the University of California, Berkeley.
His works are published by HoneyRock Percussion Performance Literature (pending) and VP Music Media in Rome, Italy.
NEWS/EVENTS
March 30th,
2012
Performance of "Flatiron," Alexander Miller, guitar
Palatine,
IL College
Music Society, 30th Great Lakes
Regional
Conference, Harper
College
March
2012 Premiere
of "Disappearance,"
Los
Angeles Percussion Quartet
Date TBA
Los Angeles, CA
May/June
2012
Residency at the MacDowell Colony, Peterbourough,
NH.
AUDIO
EXCERPTS
Scrim (full version)
Jack Stulz,
viola
Wanderings of the Mind While Attempting
to
Ruminate on a Painting of Dali
(excerpt)
Donald Crockett, conductor
USC
Symphony
Flatiron
(mvt. 1 excerpt)
Alex Miller, guitar
For additional sound clips, please see
the Compositions
page.