Discipline: Music Composition

Alexander Miller

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Anaheim, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2012

Alexander Elliott Miller is a composer and guitarist who served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition & Music Theory at Illinois State University. His composition Disappearance was premiered by the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, by whom the work was commissioned, in California. In 2018, the album TO….OBLIVION: Historic Landmarks Around Los Angeles was released. A rock guitarist in his youth, Miller has played electric guitar for the Los Angeles based new music group The What's Next? Ensemble and been interested in writing music for electric guitar with computer processing.

Studios

Irving Fine

Alexander Miller worked in the Irving Fine studio.

Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…

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