OBSVAC Home General Information: • Equipment • The Founder • Affiliate Scholars • Student Assistants • Pedagogy tapes for sale • Vocal Studies Home		The Founder and Director Emeritus of OBSVAC Richard Miller's rich performance career has been distinguished by diversity in opera (some 50 roles in more than 450 performances), oratorio and recital, in Europe and America. He is known internationally for master classes in systematic vocal technique and artistic interpretation presented in 38 states of the U.S., in Europe, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Research and teaching projects have been undertaken in 14 European countries. He continues as an active researcher and author in voice technique and performance. Miller taught 28 years at the Mozarteum International Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria. Beginning in 1982, he presented countless week-long master classes at the Foundation Royaumont, the major French conference center for music. Engaged by the French Ministry of Culture as an expert pedagogic consultant in 1983, he offered courses in voice pedagogy for teachers and students of the French national conservatory system, presented lectures and classes at the Paris Conservatoire Superieure, at the Marseilles National Opera School, and at Centre Polyphonique. In May, 1990, he was decorated Chevalier/Officier into the French Order of Arts and Letters at the hand of Madame Regine Crespin "in recognition of contributions to the art of vocalism in France and throughout the world." In 2006 Miller received the Voice Education Research Awareness Award from The Voice Foundation for his contribution to the field of voice communication. He was chief presenter at several international voice congresses. He was a frequent adjudicator, including Munich, Paris, Metropolitan Scholarship and National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Award competitions. His students perform in major opera houses: Metropolitan Opera, New York State (City Center), San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Washington, Baltimore, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, Welsh Opera, English National Opera, Montreal, Santiago, Trieste, Palermo, La Scala, Rome Opera, Paris Bastille, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Salzburg, Vienna, and in numerous artist apprenticeship programs in America and Europe. Former students serve on faculties of major schools of music. Miller is Adjunct Staff member, Otolaryngology Department of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Associate of Collegium Medicorum Theatri, and member of the American Academy of Teachers of Singing. He has contributed more than 100 articles on voice pedagogy, research, and performance artistry to professional journals, including Journal of Voice, Folia Phoniatrica, Choral Journal, American Music Teacher, Vocal Arts Medicine, Journal of Research in Singing and Applied Vocal Pedagogy, and Journal of Singing. He was editor of The NATS Journal, 1980 to 1987. Interested persons can order Richard Miller's books from the local Co-op Bookstore, in downtown Oberlin. The Co-op Bookstore Online! Co-op Bookstore 37 W. College Ave. Oberlin, OH 44074 (440) 774-3741 He is the author of many standard books on voice pedagogy and performance, including: English, French, German and Italian Techniques of Singing (Scarecrow, 1977, reissued 1997) The Structure of Singing (Schirmer Books/Macmillan, 1986) (published by the French Ministry of Culture as La Structure du Chant, 1990) Training Tenor Voices (Schirmer Books/Macmillan, 1993. Korean edition, 1994) On the Art of Singing (Oxford University Press, 1996) Singing Schumann: an Interpretive Guide for Performers (Oxford University Press, Summer, 1999) Training Soprano Voices (Oxford University Press, Spring, 2000. Korean edition, 2004) Solutions for Singers: Tools for Performers and Teachers (Oxford University Press, January, 2004) Securing Baritone, Bass-Baritone, and Bass Voices (Oxford University Press, Spring 2007) Singing in Western Civilization (at press) He is editor of Liszt: 25 French and Italian Songs for Voice and Piano, 15 Songs of Max Roger (International Music, 2002), and Liszt: 22 German Songs for Voice and Piano, in High and Low editions (International Music, 1998). Miller served as Wheeler Professor of Music Performance at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music from 1964-2004. He holds the B. Mus., M. Mus. (University of Michigan), Artist Diploma (L'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome) and the L.H.D. (Doctor of Humanities), Gustavus Adolphus College, and was a 1952 Fulbright Scholar. Professor Miller may be contacted at Richard.Miller@oberlin.edu.
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