  Mark Miller Assistant Conductor, Boston Youth Symphony and Chamber Orchestra
Mark Miller came to BYSO in 1985 as Orchestra Manager. On leaving that post in 1987, Music Director Eiji Oue invited him to remain on the artistic staff. He was named assistant conductor by David Commanday in 1993.
Mr. Miller is well known as a performer and teacher in eastern Massachusetts. As a clarinetist, he serves as principal clarinetist of the Cape Symphony Orchestra and performs with the wind quintet Arcadian Winds. In addition to BYSO, he conducts the chamber orchestra of the Community Music Center of Boston and has conducted the orchestras at the Summer Youth Music School at the University of New Hampshire, the 2004 Rhode Island All-State Orchestra, the 2001 Massachusetts Southeast District Festival Orchestra, the North Shore Philharmonic, and the South Shore Conservatory Summer Wind Ensemble. Mr. Miller has performed with ALEA III, Hyperprisms, the New Bedford Symphony, the Boston Philharmonic, the Central Massachusetts Symphony, and the Scarborough Chamber Players. He has appeared as clarinet soloist with the Cape Symphony Orchestra, Harvard's Mozart Society Orchestra, and the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras.
Mr. Miller was born and raised in Pensacola, Florida, and attended the Florida State University, where he earned degrees in composition and clarinet performance. He holds a master's degree in composition from Boston University. He has studied clarinet with Eugene Gonzalez, Fred Ormand, and Michael Webster, and composition with Harold Schiffman, Theodore Antoniou, Joyce Mekeel, and Robert Sirota. Mr. Miller appears as clarinet soloist on several recordings by the Zamir Chorale of Boston, and his compositions, arrangements and transcriptions for wind quintet have been performed and recorded by Arcadian Winds. Previous Page Back to Artistic Staff Next Page |