Joe Miller
- Email Address: joemiller@rider.edu
- Phone: (609) 921-7100 ext. 8247
- Office: Williamson Hall 43
- Mailing Address: 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540
Joe Miller is conductor of two of America’s most renowned choral ensembles – the 32-voice Westminster Choir and the 200-voice Westminster Symphonic Choir. As director of choral activities at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, N.J., he oversees an extensive choral program that includes eight ensembles.
His 2007-2008 season with the Westminster Choir includes collaborating with Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic in a series of performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, a concert tour of Texas and a series of performances in Michigan. Maestro Miller’s season with the Westminster Symphonic Choir includes collaborations with David Robertson and Pierre Boulez and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra, Neeme Järvi and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Summer 2008 will include several concerts with the Westminster Choir at the Spoleto Festival U.S. A. and conducting the Westminster Chamber Choir in Italy, an intensive two-week choral program in Florence, Italy.
Guest conductor for numerous all-state and honors choirs, this season he will conduct the Florida ACDA All State Honors Choir and the American Choral Directors Western Division High School Honors Choir. He will also serve as Headliner for the 2008 Ohio Choral Directors Summer Conference.
Before his appointment at Westminster, he was director of choral studies, professor of music and voice area chair at Western Michigan University School of Music. With the Western Michigan Chorale he received a number of awards, including the Silver Medal at the 2005 European Grand Prix for Choral Singing in Varna, Bulgaria and the Grand Prize at the 2002 Robert Schumann International Choral Competition in Zwickau, Germany. He has also served as director of choral and vocal activities at California State University, artistic director/conductor of the Stockton Chorale, and music director of the Mother Lode Music Festival.
Keynote speaker at a Chorus America conference in Princeton, he said “Choral music in the United States has seen unprecedented growth in the past several decades. The influence of our past leaders is part of our fabric, but we must seize this time to create a new vision based on the foundation that has been laid before us. We must keep the traditions but be willing to change in order to build a vision for the future.”
Joe Miller earned a master’s degree and a doctorate in choral conducting from the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music education and voice from the University of Tennessee.
