Mina F. Miller

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Mina F. Miller
Birth nameMina Florence Miller
Born1949 (age 74–75)
New York City
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • writer
Instrument(s)Piano

Mina Florence Miller[1] (born 1949[2]), credited as Mina F. Miller and Mina Miller, is an American classical pianist, writer, and founder and artistic director of Music of Remembrance in Seattle, Washington.

Career[edit]

Miller studied piano performance under Artur Balsam at the Conservatory of Manhattan School of Music, and was awarded a Ph.D. in Music at New York University. She became Associate Professor of Music at the University of Kentucky in 1977, was appointed Assistant Professor (with tenure) in 1984[3] and was named a University Research Professor for the year 1988–89.[4] She has performed in solo recitals in England and Scandinavia and in concerts in Europe and North America.[2][5][6]

In 1982, Miller prepared the first collected edition with critical commentary of the piano works of Danish composer Carl Nielsen (Miller 1982),[7] for which she performed the first recorded version, The Complete Piano Music of Carl Nielsen (Hyperion-CD-1987).[5] She also wrote Carl Nielsen: A Guide to Research , a collection of sources with commentary from the author (Miller 1987), and edited The Nielsen companion (Miller 1994) for which she wrote interludes,[8] including "Ink v. Pencil: Implications for the Performer" about Nielsen's Violin Sonata No. 1.[9]

Miller also recorded The Piano Music of Leoš Janáček (Ambassador-CD-1996).

Miller founded Music of Remembrance 1998 in Seattle.[10] She is the President and Artistic Director as well as performing herself. This is a group whose purpose is to find and perform music composed by victims of The Holocaust, irrespective of their background, as well as to perform related newly commissioned works.[11][12]

Personal life[edit]

Miller was born in New York City.[6] Her parents stayed in America after visiting the 1939 New York World's Fair when it became clear they could not return to Lithuania,[13] where "their entire families were murdered."[14] While researching The Holocaust she became aware of music which had been composed in Terezin concentration camp and decided to found Music of Remembrance.[14]

Publications[edit]

Print[edit]

  • Miller, Mina F. (1982). The Complete Solo Piano Music of Carl Nielsen. A Critical Revised Edition. Copenhagen: Edition Wilhelm Hansen.
  • Miller, Mina (1982b). "Some Thoughts upon Editing the Music of Carl Nielsen". Current Musicology. 34: 64–74.[15]
  • Miller, Mina F. (1987). Carl Nielsen: A Guide to Research. New York: Garland. ISBN 978-0-8240-8569-8.
  • Miller, Mina F., ed. (1994). The Nielsen companion. London, New York: Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-16143-0.

Discography[edit]

  • Mina Miller (piano) (1987). The Complete Piano Music of Carl Nielsen (CD). Hyperion. CSA66231/2. Miller also wrote the main sleeve notes.
  • Mina Miller (piano) (1996). The Piano Music of Leoš Janáček (CD). Ambassador. ARC1020. Miller also wrote the main sleeve notes.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Miller, Mina F." (in German). Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Archived from the original on February 2, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Adler 2007.
  3. ^ Explore UK 1984, p. 27.
  4. ^ Explore UK 1988.
  5. ^ a b Hyperion 1987, p. 10.
  6. ^ a b "Mina Miller". Music of Remembrance. Archived from the original on April 18, 2015. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  7. ^ Krabbe 2009, pp. 92–93.
  8. ^ "Carl Nielsen Bibliography".
  9. ^ Katz 2006, p. 242.
  10. ^ "About". Music of Remembrance. Archived from the original on January 10, 2016.
  11. ^ "Music of Remembrance". Seattle Foundation. Archived from the original on May 9, 2015.
  12. ^ Ginell 2008.
  13. ^ Alhadeff 2015.
  14. ^ a b Beck 2012.
  15. ^ Cited in Reynolds (2010, p. 26).

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