Copyright 2013. Alexander Elliott Miller. All Rights Reserved.
Alexander Elliott Miller is a composer, guitarist and educator whose music has been described as "...wild... unearthly...lyrical...a voice worth listening to." (San Francisco Classical Voice). Miller's compositions have been performed by Grammy nominated musicians including soprano Tony Arnold and the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, as well as artists including Earplay New Chamber Music, TEMPO, Brave New Works, Definiens, the Quintet Attacca, violist Dominic DeStefano, and many pianists including Vincent Craig, Herb Bielawa, Catarina Domenici, Nathaniel May, Mei-Hsuan Huang & John Solomons.
Performances of Miller's compositions have taken place across North and South America at venues including New York City's Steinway Hall, San Francisco's ODC Theater, the Aspen Music Festival, Bowdoin Music Festival, NEON Festival and the Chamber Music Conference & Composer's Forum of the East. He has received awards and honors from the American Composers Forum and the MacDowell Colony, and was the winner of 2012 Earplay Donald Aird Memorial Composers Competition.
2013
Events
February 14th,
2013
Performance of "Flatiron"
Alexander Elliott Miller,
guitar
SCI National Conference
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
February
23rd & 24th, 2013
Two performances of "Brassica: A Song Cycle on
Genetic Engineering."
Tony Arnold, soprano & Definiens.
World Premiere.
Feb. 23: Idyllwild Arts Academy,
Idyllwild, CA.
Feb. 24: Highways, Santa Monica, CA.
http://definiens.org/
February 25th,
2013
Performance of "Actions & Resonances," Vincent Craig,
piano
West Chester University of
Pennsylvania.
West Chester, PA
March
17th, 2013
Performance of "Actions & Resonances," Herb Bielawa,
piano
Sounds New: The Music of Today
Unitarian Universalist Church of
Berkeley
Kensington, CA
March
22nd, 2013
Performance of "Actions & Resonances"
CMS 31st
Regional Conference
University of Dayton
Dayton,
OH
March 30th, 2013
World Premiere
of "Echoes in the Dark"
TEMPO Ensemble
California State University,
Northridge
Northridge,
CA
April 18th, 2013
Performance of "Actions &
Resonances"
Vincent Craig, piano
Steinway Hall
New York City, NY
April 26th, 2013
Performance of
"Disappearance"
Chapman Percussion Ensemble
Nick Terry,
director
Chapman University
Orange, CA
April 19th & 26th,
2013
What's Next? Ensemble Presents:
The 5th Annual Los Angeles
Composers Project
Boston Court Performing Arts Center, Branson
Hall
Pasadena, CA
May 20th, 2013
Performance of
"Scrim" by Ellen Ruth Rose (of Earplay
New Chamber Music).
ODC
Theater
San Francisco,
CA
July 13th, 2013
Performance of "Actions &
Resonances"
John Solomons, piano
Applause Music Festival
University
of Texas at Arlington
August 2013
Performance of
"Actions & Resonances"
Catarina Domenici, piano
National Association
of Music Research & Graduate Studies
Federal University of Rio Grande do
Norte
Natal,
Brazil
Fall 2013, date TBA
Performance of "Actions & Resonances"
Vincent Craig, piano
Church of the Resurrection
Lutherville,
MD
October 30th, 2013
Performance of "Actions &
Resonances"
Vincent Craig, piano
Quinnipiac University
Hamden,
CT
November 1st, 2013
Performance of "Flatiron"
Alexander Elliott Miller, guitar
CMS 2013 National
Conference
Cambridge, MA
Miller is a Co-Director of the What's Next? Ensemble, an LA-based new music group that the LA Times' Mark Swed said played with "panache" during a recent collaborative performance of Michael Gordon's Van Gogh with the Long Beach Opera. Since 2009, the What's Next? Ensemble has presented an annual concert series called the "Los Angeles Composers Project," a series that has highlighted the works of over 50 LA composers in its history.
As a guitarist, Miller played electric guitar with the Long Beach Opera, the Color Field Ensemble and the What's Next? Ensemble, and has performed his own solo compositions for classical guitar at several new music concerts across the country, including venues in Los Angeles, Chicago, Columbus, Philadelphia, Boston & San Francisco. He has also published a guitar quartet with an Italian publishing house specializing in contemporary works for guitar, VP Music Media.
A dedicated teacher, Miller is currently an Instructor of Music Theory & Composition at Chapman University in Orange, California. He previously served on the faculties of Illinois State University, the University of Southern California, West Chester University of Pennsylvania and California Lutheran University. He has worked with high school students, leading after-school music education programs in Los Angeles, and from 2005-2006, teaching guitar and coaching rock bands for Camp Ballibay, a performing arts summer camp in Pennsylvania.
Miller holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree 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 UC Berkeley's Center for New Music & Audio Technology (CNMAT).
His works are published by HoneyRock Percussion Performance Literature (Pennsylvania) and VP Music Media (Italy). For more information, please visit www.alexanderemiller.com.