Alexander Lamont Miller

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Alexander Lamont Miller

Biography

Alexander Lamont Miller (b. 1968) is an American oboeist and composer.

Mr. Miller holds two degrees in oboe performance from The Juilliard School, B.M. (1990) and M.M. (1992). While completing his studies he worked as a music theory teaching assistant and played substitute and stage band oboe with the Metropolitan Opera. He never pursued formal composition training.

His imaginative music draws upon his years of experience as assistant principal oboist with the Grand Rapids Symphony and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. The broad spectrum of his orchestral scores have covered subjects as varied as emojis, film noir, nineteenth-century French literature, Balinese gamelan music, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s march on Washington, fireworks displays, a remix of Pachelbel's Canon in D and the translation of visual encaustic art into a clarinet concerto.

Miller is a member of Ensemble Montage, an edgy chamber group dedicated to performing the myriad challenging works of the past century. He is also oboist for the Wünderwind Quintet, a group that travels to local schools and teaches children about woodwind instruments and the basic elements of building music.


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