Anton Miller

Anton Mattias Cyprian Miller was born in Berea, Ohio, on January 8, 1963, the fourth child of renowned voice teacher Richard Miller and Mary Norman Dagger Miller. Growing up in Oberlin, Ohio, he was introduced at an early age to violin training in the method developed by Shinichi Suzuki. From early childhood, into his teenage years, he was also intensively coached by his mother, a violinist. He studied with various violin teachers in Ohio and in Europe, including a year with Eduard Melkus in Vienna. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University as a student of Franco Gulli and was awarded the Performer’s Certificate. He completed his Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School, studying under violin pedagogue Dorothy DeLay and studying chamber music with Felix Galimir and members of the Juilliard Quartet.

Anton Miller made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1992[3] and two years later gave the world premiere performance of Xiaogang Ye’s Last Paradise for violin and orchestra in Beijing, China, with the Central Philharmonic Orchestra.[4] Mr. Miller has been concertmaster for thirty years[5] with the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra[6] and also with the New Jersey Festival Orchestra,[7] performing many solo concerti with both of those orchestras.[8] He also served as concertmaster for an Argentinian tour of the American Ballet Theatre.

He has performed nearly one hundred violin concerti with orchestras on four continents. He has made numerous recital and chamber music tours to Europe with performances in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, and England. A resident of the East Coast of the U.S., Mr. Miller has performed more than a hundred chamber music concerts and recitals in the New York City area. Performances have included such venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Merkin Hall.

He is active as a chamber musician[9] and performs regularly with violist Rita Porfiris as the Miller-Porfiris Duo.[10]

Anton Miller is currently Professor of Violin at The Hartt School.[11] He previously has served on the faculty of New York University, the Oberlin Conservatory, Lawrence University, and Swarthmore College.

Mr. Miller was a founder[12] and Artistic Director of the Three Bridges International Chamber Music Festival in Minnesota,[13] and a co-Artistic Director of the Silver Bay Festival. He is currently co-Director of Music of the Point CounterPoint[14] High School session for chamber musicians. Past and current festival summer faculty positions also include Foulger International Music Academy, the Intensive String Quartet Workshop at New York University, Aria International Academy, the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, Musicorda, Killington, Hot Springs, and New Arts Festival domestically; and, internationally, the Festival Eterna Primavera in Cuernavaca (Mexico), the Summer Festival of Thessaloniki (Greece), Hsing Tian Kong (Taiwan), Bearstown (Korea), and the Harpa International Chamber Academy (Iceland).[15]

As a chamber musician he performs in concert with the Miller-Porfiris Duo, Hartt Quartet, Con Brio Ensemble, QuartetES and the Phenix Ensemble.

(Partial list of recordings)

• Xiaogang Ye’s Last Paradise (1994)
• Franz Mittler's "Chaconne" and other works of Mittler performed with Con Brio Ensemble (1999);[16] Mittler: "Lieder; Trio; Characteristic Pieces," (2005)[17]
• The Complete Brahms Sonatas with pianist Brandt Fredriksen (2002)
• Five Postcards (2010) (as the Miller-Porfiris Duo), music for violin and viola by composers of the Americas: Errollyn Wallen, Libby Larsen, Mario Diaz Gavier, and Heitor Villa-Lobos with violist Rita Porfiris
• Kurt Weill's Violin Concerto (released 2012)[18]
• Eight Pieces (2013) (as the Miller-Porfiris Duo), music by Reinhold Glière and Max Bruch for violin and viola with violist Rita Porfiris[19]
• Divertimenti (2016) (as the Miller-Porfiris Duo), music by Bohuslav Martinů, Ernst Toch and Robert Fuchs for violin and viola with violist Rita Porfiris[20][21]