Biography

Updated 5 February 2008 Paul Miller is both a music theorist and a performer of baroque and contemporary music. His PhD dissertation focuses on the spatial music of Karlheinz Stockhausen, and will be submitted to the Eastman School of Music in summer 2008. He teaches both music history and music theory at Temple University. While maintaining violin and viola studios at five branches of the Settlement Music School, he teaches music theory there as well. Paul keeps a busy schedule appearing in various baroque ensembles in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC and Rochester, NY, and will perform at the Metropolitian Museum of Art in New York City in May. This summer he will attend the International Vacation Courses in New Music in Darmstadt, Germany, for the third time. An advocate of the viola d'amore, he has performed both old and new music for this unusual instrument, and currently plays on a 14-stringed 1772 Thomasso Eberle once owned by the novelist Thomas Mann.

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