Paul Miller is an Instructor of Music Theory at The University of Colorado in 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. His research is forthcoming in a special issue of Perspectives of New Music devoted to the music of Stockhausen. Miller has presented papers at international, national, regional and local conferences in the United States and Germany. 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 the journal Music Theory Spectrum for two years. Currently he is working on a commissioned book review from the Cambridge University Press journal Twentieth Century Music, and an article for the Journal of the American Music Research Center. In addition, Dr. Miller is completing a large-scale project for the Stockhausen Foundation transcribing and analyzing Stockhausen's late lectures. 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, and a coordinator of undergraduate theory and aural skills classes at CU Boulder. 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. Other upcoming events include performances at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC in 2012. Miller is also working on a recording project with Thomas Georgi, of Tafelmusik that will chart the course of viola d'amore music over three centuries. Paul is the program director of the new Rocky Ridge Early Music Festival and Workshop, which will have its inaugural season in August, 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. He 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. He also serves on the sustainability committee of SMT (the Society for Music Theory). To download a PDF of my CV, please click here.
	My dissertation, Stockhausen and the Serial Shaping of Space -- link to ProQuest, may not work everywhere! "An Adventure Into Outer Space: Stockhausen's LICHTER-WASSER and the Analysis of Spatialized Music", forthcoming in Perspectives of New Music. Commissioned articles & reviews include: A review for the Cambridge University Press journal Twentieth Century Music of Mary Bauermeister's new memoir, "Ich hänge im Triolengitter: Mein Leben mit Karlheinz Stockhausen" An article for the journal of the American Music Research Center about the American composer John McGuire, along with an analysis of the connection between American minimalism and European serialism. Ongoing research projects include: Serialism & Organicism in Stockhausen's philosophy Stockhausen's Pedagogy -- a transcription of the Kürten lectures (in cooperation with the Stockhausen Stiftung) Jan Kral and the Viola d'Amore in the 19th Century Sample syllabi and teaching evaluations More student evaluations from 2011 Three Waltzes, written as examples for a sophomore composition project. Several full-length teaching videos -- which are already on this web site in quicktime format -- are available immediately upon request. The two arias, Erwäge and Betrachte for violas d'amore from Bach's St John Passion, with Greg Funfgeld, Evelyn Jacobs-Luise, Benjamin Butterfield, Christopheren Nomura, and performers with the Bach Festival of Bethlehem. Betrachte, meine Seel Erwäge, wie sein blutgefärbter Rücken 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,voice. Miller is playing on a viola d'amore by Martin Biller made in 2010. Vivaldi's concerto for viola d'amore, RV 392, with the Early Music Ensemble at the University of Colorado, under the direction of Elizabeth Farr Allegro Largo Allegro Kral's Nocturne for two viola d'amores, with Thomas Georgi First movement of the 7th Partita from Biber's Harmonia artificiosa, at the Metropolitan Museum of art with Thomas Georgi and others An anonymous partita, circa 1730, for viola d'amore with Bill Simms, theorbo. Recorded live at the Coolege Auditorium at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC Allegro Aria More to come, including: Conducting Stockhausen's Kreuzspiel, North American premiere of Stockhausen's In Freundschaft for viola.
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