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词条 Anton Miller
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  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Professional activities

  4. Discography

  5. References

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| instrument = Violin
| genre = Classical
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| caption = Anton Miller playing the Viotti Stradivarius in Taiwan, December 2018
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}}Anton Miller (born 8 January 1963) is an American violinist and violin pedagogue who has appeared throughout the United States and abroad as a soloist, chamber musician, recitalist, and educator. He has premiered and commissioned works for the violin by Xiaogang Ye,[1] Mario Gavier, and Errollyn Wallen.[2]

Early life

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 {{ill|Franco Gulli|it}} 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.

Career

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]

Professional activities

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.

Discography

(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]

References

1. ^Schott Music, World Premier performance of Xiaogang Ye’s Last Paradise, soloist Anton Miller, April 26, 1994[https://en.schott-music.com/shop/authordata/performance/view/id/40455/sku/158453]
2. ^"British Composer, Pianist, Singer-Songwriter Errollyn Wallen to Perform at Symphony Space," 2/21/2014[https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/British-Composer-Pianist-Singer-Songwriter-Errollyn-Wallen-to-Perform-at-Symphony-Space-221-20140205].
3. ^[https://www.carnegiehall.org/About/History/Performance-History-Search?q=&dex=prod_PHS&event=37383&pf=Anton%20Miller_ Miller-Zoernig Duo, Carnegie Hall Archives 1992]
4. ^[https://en.schott-music.com/shop/authordata/performance/view/id/40455/sku/158453 Schott Music, World Premier performance of Xiaogang Ye’s Last Paradise, soloist Anton Miller, April 26, 1994]
5. ^John Cutler, "New Piece Helps LSO Concertmaster Anton Miller and Conductor Ed Polochick Celebrate Anniversaries," Lincoln Journal Star, May 6, 2018[https://journalstar.com/entertainment/music/new-piece-helps-lso-concertmaster-conductor-celebrate-anniversaries/article_5d2d09f3-2890-5851-b30b-9e5353ed7bb7.html]
6. ^[https://lincolnsymphony.com/conductors-orchestra-members/ Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, Anton Miller Concertmaster, Emanuel Wishnow Chair]
7. ^[https://njfestivalorchestra.org/ New Jersey Festival Orchestra]
8. ^John Cutler, Review: "Soloist Miller shines with Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra," Lincoln Journal Star [https://journalstar.com/entertainment/music/review-soloist-miller-shines-with-lincoln-s-symphony-orchestra/article_93380acc-8300-59e5-abfe-4c08c48d161a.html Jan. 20, 2018]
9. ^See, e.g., Jónas Sen, "Andagift og andleysi í Kammermúsíkklúbbnum," Fréttablaðið (Reykjavik, Iceland), Sept. 22, 2018, p. 117 of pdf ; Samuel Black (review), "Chamber music festival off to thrilling start," Duluth News Tribune, June 7, 2010[https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/2410975-review-chamber-music-festival-thrilling-start]; River Oaks Chamber Orchestra feature, "Anton Miller Plucks, Strums, Whistles, and Bangs While Playing the Fiddle," October 15, 2015[https://roco.org/2015/10/15/anton-miller-plucks-strums-whistles-and-bangs-while-playing-the-fiddle/]; St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society, Anton Miller, Violin.
10. ^See, e.g., Lee Howard, "Miller, Porfiris wow crowd during Saturday's Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra performance," The Day (New London CT), January 28, 2018[https://www.theday.com/aemusic/20180128/miller-porfiris-wow-crowd-during-saturdays-eastern-connecticut-symphony-orchestra-performance]; Jónas Sen, "Strengjaleikurinn þurr eins og sandpappír," Fréttablaðið (Reykjavik, Iceland), August 9, 2018, p. 24 (p. 36 of pdf) ; Kelly Strayhorn Theater Pittsburgh, June 20, 2017, http://www.chambermusicpittsburgh.org/our-concerts/series/just-summer/miller-porfiris-duo-violin-viola-silent-films; Midtown Arts Theatre Center Houston, January 17, 2017, Culture Map; “Which Came First?” Silent Film Classics: with Strings Attached http://data.instantencore.com/pdf/1051429/MATCH+press+release.pdf; An die Musik, February 14, 2017, Miller-Porfiris Duo in Baltimore; Chamber Music Society of Little Rock, Ron Robinson Theater, September 10, 2016
11. ^[https://www.hartford.edu/hartt/about-us/faculty/music/strings/anton-miller.aspx University of Hartford, The Hartt School of Music, Professor of Violin Anton Miller]
12. ^Christa Lawler, "Duluth violinist turned passion into a new music festival, Duluth News Tribune, May 28, 2009[https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/2397859-duluth-violinist-turned-passion-new-music-festival]
13. ^Three Bridges 2010 Photo Album Weber Hall, 2010
14. ^Leicester, Vermont [https://pointcp.com/ Point CounterPoint]
15. ^Harpa Music Academy Faculty
16. ^David W. Moore, “Guide to Records: Mittler,” American Record Guide, vol. 62, no. 1, Jan. 1999, p. 148.
17. ^Kurt Moses, “Mittler: Lieder; Trio; Characteristic Pieces,” American Record Guide, vol. 68, no. 2, Mar. 2005, p. 135 (Preiser 90567).
18. ^Kilpatrick (review), “Weill Violin Concerto/ Higdon Saxophone Concerto/ Yi Dragon Rhyme” American Record Guide, vol. 76, no. 1, Jan. 2013, pp. 172–173 (Naxos 572889).
19. ^Donald Rosenberg, Review (extract) of "Eight Pieces," Gramophone Magazine, May 2014[https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/38869/page/3]
20. ^James H. North, “12 Duets, Op. 60/ Toch Divertimento, Op. 37/2/ Martinů Duo No. 2, H. 331,” Fanfare: The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors, vol. 40, no. 1, Sept. 2016, p. 344.
21. ^Terry Robbins, Review of "Divertimenti," The Whole Note, May 2017[https://www.thewholenote.com/index.php/booksrecords2/classicalabeyond/26922-strings-attached-may-2017 ]
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