David Alan Miller

David Alan Miller has established a reputation as one of the leading American conductors of his generation. He has worked with most of America’s major orchestras, including the orchestras of Minnesota, Chicago, Baltimore, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and San Francisco. Miller is also founder and Artistic Director of New Paths in Music, a festival in New York City dedicated to presenting the works of significant non-American composers who are not yet well known in the United States.

As Music Director of the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Miller has proven himself a creative and compelling orchestra builder. Through exploration of unusual repertoire, educational programming, community outreach and recording initiatives, he has reaffirmed the Albany Symphony’s reputation as the nation’s leading champion of American symphonic music and one of its most innovative orchestras. Further recognising the accomplishments of Miller and the Albany Symphony, Carnegie Hall has invited them to perform in their inaugural Spring for Music festival.

Recent and upcoming appearances include the Detroit Symphony, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the Belgrade Philharmonic, Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Florida Orchestra, the Honolulu Symphony and his fifth visit to Portugal’s Estoril Festival.

Miller is highly regarded as a champion and interpreter of American music. His extensive discography includes recordings of the works of Todd Levin with the London Symphony Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon, as well as music by Michael Daugherty, Kamran Ince, and Michael Torke for London/Decca. Mr Miller’s most recent CD releases include the world première recording of Michael Torke’s opera, Strawberry Fields, on the Ecstatic Records label as well as a disc of major works by George Tsontakis with the Albany Symphony Orchestra for Koch.

A native of Los Angeles, Miller holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and The Juilliard School. He lives with his wife and three children near Albany, New York.