Teachers
Miamon Miller
Teaches: Romanian violin,
Trans-Carpathian ensemble
Lives in Sunland, CA
Contact info:
Miamon Miller has 40 years of experience playing Eastern European folk music. Introduced to this wide-ranging genre while at UCLA, he soon joined the AMAN Folk Ensemble where he played and directed for 13 years.
From 1978-1991 he taught Romanian folk violin and Trans-Carpathian ensemble classes for EEFC Workshops on both coasts. Miamon has an M.A. in ethnomusicology from UCLA and has traveled to Romania several times, incuding a 10-month stint on a Fulbright grant, to conduct folk music research.
Miamon was a professional musician, composer and arranger in Los Angeles before moving to bucolic Vermont in 2006. As a player, he worked primarily as a violinist playing "standards" or klezmer/Israeli music for Jewish events. As a composer, his work required an understanding of ethnic sensibilities and in consequence his commercial credits include disparate styles required for wide-ranging topics as for the documentaries "Arabs in Detroit" and "Swimming In Auschwitz," and for the television series "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman."
After moving to Vermont, he composed for and played with the ethnic jazz ensemble, the As Yet Quintet, the difficult to define but extremely fun Moondog Trio, and the Transylvanian band Trei Arcusi. After five winters in rural New England, Miamon is thrilled to be back in Southern California.
Videos
Trei Arcusi
CD and other info:
"Copa Kabanica" and "Therapy 3" (composed for and performed by the As Yet Quintet on their CD Strange but True) available on iTunes and CD Baby
The Moondog Trio CD Slow Bones available on iTunes and CD Baby
Fuge Imaginea 104 available on iTunes and CD Baby
Other books and recordings can be found at www.fugeimaginea.com