Conductor, clarinetist, and composer Mark Miller is well-known as a performer and teacher in eastern Massachusetts. For many years he has been an assistant conductor of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, where he works with the Senior Orchestra and its chamber orchestras. He also conducts the Boston University All-Campus Orchestra and the chamber orchestra at the Community Music Center of Boston. As a clarinetist, he serves as principal clarinet of the Cape Cod Symphony, the Plymouth Philharmonic, and the Simon Sinfonietta, and has performed with ALEA III, Hyperprisms, the New Bedford Symphony, the Boston Philharmonic, the Central Massachusetts Symphony, and the Scarborough Chamber Players. With the wind quintet Arcadian Winds, specializing in contemporary music, he has premiered countless new works and performed most of the classics of the chamber music repertoire. He has appeared as clarinet soloist with the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, Harvard’s Mozart Society Orchestra, and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. As a conductor, he has led many concerts by the various BYSO orchestras, and has conducted the 2004 Rhode Island All-State Orchestra, the 2001 Massachusetts Southeast District Festival Orchestra, the orchestras at the Summer Youth Music School at the University of New Hampshire, the North Shore Philharmonic, and the South Shore Conservatory Summer Wind Ensemble. He has also coached orchestras and orchestra wind sections at Harvard, Brandeis, Wellesley, and the Longy School. During the summer season, he has been a frequent performer at the Warebrook (Vermont) Contemporary Music Festival and has coached for the Chamber Music Center at Wellesley College.
Mr. Miller currently teaches clarinet at the Community Music Center of Boston, St. Mark's School, and at Foxborough High School, where he also conducts the clarinet choir. He has been commissioned to write several substantial works for Foxborough’s bands and wind ensembles. His original compositions and arrangements have been performed by Arcadian Winds and the Arcadian Chamber Orchestra; his wind quintet arrangements are quite popular and have been performed by quintets throughout North America and Europe.
Mr. Miller was born and raised in Pensacola, Florida, and attended the Florida State University, where he earned degrees in composition and clarinet performance. He holds a master's degree in composition from Boston University. He has studied clarinet with Eugene Gonzalez, Fred Ormand, and Michael Webster, and composition with Harold Schiffman, Theodore Antoniou, Joyce Mekeel, and Robert Sirota. Mr. Miller appears as clarinet soloist on several recordings by the Zamir Chorale of Boston, and his compositions, arrangements and transcriptions for wind quintet have been performed and recorded by Arcadian Winds. He makes his home in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
e-mail Mark Miller at markmiller@markmillermusic.com