Dale Miller
Dr. Dale Miller is in his twelfth year as Director of Choral Activities at Arkansas State University. Twenty-four of his thirty-six years of teaching choral music were spent in Texas in high schools, at Kilgore College, and at Texas Tech University, where he was the winner of the DeVitt-Jones Fellowship in music for the Texas Tech Ph.D. in Fine Arts. Dr. Miller enjoyed his Carnegie Hall conducting debut in 1995, and conducted in the famous New York hall for the fourth time in January 2008. Dr. Miller’s choirs have performed in Carnegie Hall five times, on four international tours, and for state and divisional choral music conventions in Dallas, St. Louis, San Antonio, and Wichita. He has conducted professional orchestras in Poland, Wales, Mexico, New York, Arkansas, and Texas, and has prepared his Kilgore and Jonesboro choruses for performances with the Manhattan Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Longview (TX) Symphony, Forum Sinfonia of Krakow (Poland), Krakow Opera Orchestra, Arkansas Symphony, and Memphis Symphony orchestras. Under his direction, ASU's Concert Choir traveled to Eastern Europe in March 2006 to perform the Mozart REQUIEM in Warsaw and Krakow, Poland with the orchestra of the Krakow Opera, and in Prague, Czech Republic. Dr. Miller has served as a clinician and adjudicator in regional and state choral and vocal events in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. Dr. Miller has held professional memberships in NASM, AASM, NATS, ACDA, ACDA--Arkansas, ArkCDA, TAMS, TMEA, TCDA, TMAA, and is co-advisor of the Omicron Omega chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, music fraternity. Dale and his wife Nancy, an elementary music teacher in Jonesboro, AR, have four children and seven grandchildren.
