After attending Pablo Casals’s master class at the University of California at Berkeley, Jonathan Miller chose to abandon his study of literature there and devote himself completely to the cello, training with Bernard Greenhouse of the Beaux Arts Trio. Seeking out masters of different schools and styles, he also studied with Raya Garbousova, Leonard Rose, Harvey Shapiro, and Edgar Lustgarten. In 1964 and 1965 he was a fellowship student at the Tanglewood Music Center. Before joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1971, Mr. Miller held appointments as principal cellist of the Juilliard, Hartford, and San Diego symphony orchestras. He has been soloist with the Hartford Symphony, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra of Boston, and he has performed in chamber music concerts at Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood. A winner of the Jeunesses Musicales auditions, he has toured the United States twice with the New York String Sextet, and he has appeared as a member of the Fine Arts Quartet. Mr. Miller is founder and music director of the Boston Artists’ Ensemble, which has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. In 1980, during its first season, the Boston Artists’ Ensemble performed twenty live concerts heard on WGBH-FM in Boston and simultaneously broadcast nationwide. Mr. Miller has taught at the New England Conservatory and at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. In June 1990, at the invitation of Mstislav Rostropovich, he appeared as soloist at the American Cello Congress, and he performed music of Janáček and Bach at the 1996 American Cello Congress. He has recorded two volumes of Beethoven cello sonatas with pianist Randall Hodgkinson for Centaur records, praised as “exciting” in the New York Times. Mr. Miller is a member of the Gramercy Trio, which received a Copland Foundation Grant for its first CD, “Shadow Bands,” on Newport Classics. The Gramercy Trio has performed in New York City three times, each time receiving enthusiastic critical notice in the New York Times. Mr. Miller performs on a famous Matteo Goffriller cello, the “Paganini-Piatti” built in Venice in 1700.
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