A native of Poughkeepsie, New York, Paul Miller has led a multifaceted career as a violinist and violist, scholar, and innovator. The Strad magazine praised his full-length recording of newly discovered viola d’amore music with Chatham Baroque as “virtuosic.” Miller has appeared as a soloist and principal player with the Washington Bach Consort, the Bethlehem Bach Festival, the National Cathedral Orchestra, the Hawaiʻi Performing Arts Festival, and numerous other ensembles throughout the United States. Miller gave the world premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s piece In Freundschaft for solo viola and subsequently assisted the composer by preparing the work for publication.
Miller is currently Associate Professor of Musicianship and Coordinator of Music Theory at Duquesne University. His research explores the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen, the viola d’amore, computational musicology, music information retrieval (MIR), machine learning for live performance, posthumanism, and large language models for musical analysis. His publications have appeared in Music Theory Online, Opera Quarterly, Early Music, Twentieth-Century Music, Music & Letters, and numerous other journals.
Miller has presented his research throughout the United States and Europe, including invited lectures at the University of Cologne, Cornell University, the Eastman School of Music, the International Society for Music Education, and the national conference of the Society for Music Theory. He studied at Vassar College, the New England Conservatory, Harvard University, and the Eastman School of Music. Before joining the faculty of Duquesne University, Miller taught at Temple University, the University of Colorado in Boulder, and Cornell University. He holds a Ph.D. in Music Theory and an M.M. in Viola Performance, and is currently pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science.