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General Information:
• Equipment
• The Director
• Affiliate Scholars
• Student Assistants
Our Products:
• Pedagogy tapes
OBSVAC on the web:
• Ribcage and Abdominal Movement during Singing
• OBSVAC and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation
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 in voice technique and performance.
Miller has taught 15 years at the Mozateum International Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria. Since 1982, he has presented more than a dozen 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, has 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." He has been chief presenter at several international voice congresses.
He is 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.
The Art of
Singing: Plus shipping and handling |
- 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)
- 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)
He is editor of Liszt: 25 French and Italian Songs for Voice and Piano, and Liszt: 22 German Songs for Voice and Piano, in High and Low editions (International Music, 1998).
Miller is Wheeler Professor of Music Performance and Director of the internationally recognized Otto B. Schoepfle Vocal Arts Center, Oberlin Conservatory of Music. 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.
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