James Miller, Professor Emeritus
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James Miller is professor emeritus of voice and choral music at the University of Oregon. He also is the past director of the Eugene Chamber Singers, a community ensemble.
He received the B.A. degree at Goshen College in Indiana and the M.Mus and A.Mus.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. He joined the UO music faculty in 1965-1999, emeritus 1995.
Miller studied piano with Noble Kreider and voice with Chase Baromeo, Richard Miller, and John McCollum. His studies in opera were with Josef Blatt and in musicology with Hans David and Louise Cuyler. He studied voice at the post graduate level with Henry Cummings at the Royal Academy in London.
Miller is a former director of both the German and English Centers for International Music Education in Europe. In 1988 he taught a “Social History of English Music” course in Bath, England, and has studied Cathedral Music in London and St. Albans during recent sabbaticals. In Oregon, he is a frequent adjudicator for state vocal solo and ensemble contests.
Miller has been a member of the University Consort, an ensemble specializing in early music for voice and instruments, and has sung as a recitalist and oratorio soloist in England, Sweden, Germany, and the United States.
He is co-author of two textbooks, An Outline History of Western Music, now in its seventh edition, and An Introduction to Music and Art in the Western World, now in its ninth edition.
