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Malcolm Miller

Malcolm Miller studied at Cambridge and Sussex Universities and completed his post-graduate studies at King's College London where he received his PhD.

He is a busy accompanist and has recorded CDs for the Sain and Meridian labels.

Miller is Associate Fellow at the Institute of Musical Research (IMR), London University, and Associate Lecturer for the Open University in London. He teaches at Goldsmiths College and City Lit and has contributed articles on 19th and 20th century music to The New Grove II, MGG and Collins Classical Music Encyclopaedia, with regular reviewing for the musical press and research interests ranging from Beethoven and Wagner to contemporary music.

As a musicologist and critic, Miller is a regular contributor to the musical press and leading academic publications. His reviews and articles appear in journals including Musical Opinion, Tempo, Classical Music, Classical Piano, Opera Now, Music & Vision, The Times Supplements, Musical Times and The Strad.

He is regularly commissioned to write program notes for concerts in major venues and music societies across Britain, as well as sleeve liner notes for various leading international record labels.

As well as contributing articles to publications, Miller is the editor of Arietta, the journal of the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe, assistant editor of EPTA's Piano Journal and guest editor of the issue of Musical Performance on the accordion.

M&V articles about Malcolm Miller

Turning Gravity into Grace - Malcolm Troup has three encounters with the sublime

Music & Vision articles by Malcolm Miller

Georg Tintner's 'The Ellipse' and music by other Viennese émigrés

Malcolm Miller looks back to a Simon Bainbridge performance last summer, and forward to Wigmore Hall's Bainbridge Study Day this month

Malcolm Miller listens to the competitors at the 2013 Beethoven Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition

Malcolm Miller pays tribute to contralto Sybil Michelow

Music by Julian Dawes

Malcolm Miller listens to the mandolin

Malcolm Miller was at the 20th Intercollegiate Beethoven Piano Competition

Malcolm Miller looks forward to the Wagner bicentenary and back to a semi-staged performance of Jonathan Harvey's 'Wagner Dream'

Music by Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Taneyev

Malcolm Miller listens to The Sixteen's 'The Earth Resounds'

Malcolm Miller muses on the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra's recent Beethoven and Boulez cycle in London

The Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms

Malcolm Miller was at the recent Bloch and Israeli Music competitions

The Kronos Quartet at the BBC Proms

The Castalian Quartet and friends

Martino Tirimo plays Tchaikovsky

Erdem Misirlioglu's BPSE competition winner's recital

Paul Ben-Haim's oratorio 'Joram'

The RAM / Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series 2012

Malcolm Miller was at the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra's 75th Anniversary Prom for an audience composition to remember ...

Two recitals by Alberto Portugheis impress Malcolm Miller

Malcolm Miller reports on the recent Israeli and Bloch music competitions

Malcolm Miller reports on a recent Symposium on Beethoven's Diabelli Variations

Two London concerts featuring music from the opera to the orient, attended

Steve Reich at 75 - Repetitions, Resonances and Renewals

Quilter songs from Trevor Alexander and Peter Crockford impress Malcolm Miller

Malcolm Miller enjoys the Meitar Ensemble in concert and reports on the conference 'Art Musics of Israel'

Contemporary music from London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire

Bach Cantatas at London's Royal Academy of Music

The Israel Piano Trio at London's Wigmore Hall

Miklós Perényi and András Schiff at London's Wigmore Hall

Julian Jacobson's Wigmore Hall recital

Bloch and Israeli Music

A City Lit music gala

Eugene Alcalay plays Bartók, Dutilleux and Beethoven

A new song cycle by Julian Dawes

Experimental music by Cage, Cowell, Feldman, Rzewski, Satie and Wolff

Malcolm Miller was at the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Chamber Music Competition

A concert by Yasmin Levy lingers in Malcolm Miller's memory

Music from Goldsmiths Chamber Choir and Brass Ensemble

Malcolm Miller samples 'The World of Jewish Music' in London

Sabbath music from the Zemel Choir

The Kanazawa-Admony Piano Duo pays tribute to Carola Grindea

Malcolm Miller listens to music-theatre works by Harrison Birtwistle

Music by Harle and Maxwell Davies

A concert in London by the Zemel Choir

Malcolm Miller reports from the 2009 BPSE Chamber Music Competition

Leslie Anne Lewis conducts a new chamber ensemble arrangement of Bloch's Sacred Service

Malcolm Miller attends a memorial concert for David Sonin

Christopher White and Melanie Reinhard at London's Foundling Museum

Malcolm Miller was at the 2009 Beethoven Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition

A concert and Handel exhibition at London's Foundling Museum

The launch of a new series of Bach Cantatas at London's Royal Academy of Music

Chamber music by Julian Dawes

Eugene Feygelson and Malcolm Troup play Beethoven and Bloch

Alberto Portugheis plays Beethoven at London's Foundling Museum

A concert by the Op 3 piano trio

The Greenwich Trio

Malcolm Miller was at the final night of the 2008 BBC Proms in London

A recital by Miriam Brickman

Dora de Marinis plays Beethoven at the Regent Hall Summer Festival

A recital by Daniel Kuzmin and Alberto Portugheis

Victoria Grigorieva and Ekaterina Lebedeva play Beethoven and Ravel

Malcolm Miller attends the final concert in a series devoted to music by banned composers

Malcolm Miller reports on the world première of a new viola concerto in Tel Aviv

Malcolm Miller applauds Julian Clef at London's Foundling Museum

Malcolm Miller reports from the 2008 Beethoven Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition

Malcolm Miller is disappointed by a Barenboim Beethoven recital in London

Malcolm Miller enjoys the first performance of Judith Weir's choral-orchestral work, 'Concrete'

'A Celebration of Israeli Music'

Malcolm Miller at the fifteenth BPSE Beethoven Intercollegiate Piano Competition

Contemporary music from the Guildhall Brass Band

Chloë Hanslip, Slatkin and the RPO

Malcolm Miller attends a concert in London's Great Chamber of the Charterhouse

Malcolm Miller attends András Schiff's 2007 RAM Bach Prize Lecture-Recital

Barenboim and the Vienna Philharmonic play Bartók, Kodály, Enescu and Ligeti

Malcolm Miller attends the historic modern revival of Striggio's sixty-part Mass

The first performance of Heiner Goebbels' 'Songs of Wars I have Seen'

John Adams' 'Doctor Atomic' receives its first European performance

Malcolm Miller enjoys Jonathan Harvey's 'Wagner Dream' at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam

A revival of Bloch's early C sharp minor symphony

Malcolm Miller reflects on a John Tavener first performance

Cantors in concert at JMI Central

Music with a Britten and Auden connection, performed by John Lofthouse and Stephen Rose

Malcolm Miller enjoys a Piano Circus event in north-west London

Music-making by Cédric Tiberghien, Jirí Belohlávek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

A recital by Serena Leader and Gordon Back

Malcolm Miller enjoys the Sariel-Ghilione Duo and Yehezkel Braun's new Sonata for Mandolin and Guitar

Malcolm Miller admires Simon Bainbridge's new BBC commission, 'Diptych'

A concert by the Eden Chamber Orchestra

Malcolm Miller reviews a concert to commemorate Holocaust Day

Premières by Sheriff and McCabe

Malcolm Miller at an evening of music and drama celebrating 350 years of Jews in Britain

Malcolm Miller enjoys the London Jewish Male Choir's 80th anniversary concert

An evening with the Zemel Choir

Malcolm Miller applauds the latest concert of music by Julian Dawes

Malcolm Miller assesses Opera Project's 'Don Giovanni', currently on tour

Souvenirs of a festival in transition

World music at the City of London Festival

Malcolm Miller was at a lecture recital by Ronald Senator, with Teresa Gobel and Miriam Brickman

Malcolm Miller enjoys a Wigmore Hall recital by the young Bulgarian pianist Vesselin Stanev

Malcolm Miller at a CD launch of Peter Feuchtwanger's exotic piano music

Joseph Horovitz's 80th birthday celebration

Malcolm Miller was at the first performance of 'Eleven Hebrew Folksongs'

Malcolm Miller was at the second of three April concerts at London's Barbican Hall

Malcolm Miller was at the Lord's Taverner's charity pop concert at London's Royal Albert Hall

Malcolm Miller was at Ian Hobson's Wigmore Hall piano recital

Malcolm Miller was at a Terezin concert on the eve of Holocaust Day 2006

Ladino music from Jewish Music Central marks the UK launch of the book 'The Sephardic Songbook'

Malcolm Miller enjoys Voces8 in London's new Foundling Museum Lunchtime Series

Lunchtime jazz from the Georgia Mancio Quartet

Malcolm Miller enjoys a highlight of the BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Mozart Quartet Series

Malcolm Miller investigates Robert Voisey's '60x60' project

Malcolm Miller reports on two European competitions

Malcolm Miller admires Valerie Tryon in recital

Hot - An Infernal Cabaret, the latest collaborative project by Peter Wiegold's 'notes inégales' and performance poet Murray Lachlan. Malcolm Miller was there

Malcolm Miller admires Schubert and Mendelssohn at the London début of the newly formed piano trio 'Opus 3'

'All Rise', by Wynton Marsalis

Sujeeva Hapugalle gives a piano recital at London's Leighton House

Canadian Opera Company's Altamira Summer Arts Concerts

Malcolm Miller applauds a young artist in the Festspiel-Soirée Series at the Wahnfried in Bayreuth

Concertos by Elgar and Kopytman

Malcolm Miller reports on an impressive array of talent at the BPSE Beethoven Chamber Music Competition 2005

Valerie Tryon at the Chopin Society on VE Day Anniversary

Malcolm Miller admires the world première of Rami Be'er's 'Upon reaching the sun' at the Tel-Aviv Performing Arts Centre

Malcolm Miller attends an inspiring concert at the London Handel Festival 2005

Malcolm Miller applauds a new work by Richard Dubugnon premièred by the Haffner Wind Ensemble and Min-Jung Kym

Paul Goodwin and the Academy of Ancient Music play Beethoven

Lydia Scadding wins the 2004 Beethoven Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition

Malcolm Miller attends the first concert in the Park Lane Group's New Year Series 2005

Bernard Roberts plays music by Stephen Dodgson

Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Malcolm Miller attends Julian Jacobson's Beethoven marathon

Tau Wey at the 2004 Regent Hall Summer Festival

Malcolm Miller enjoys a children's concert by Dominic Harlan

Music by Julian Dawes

John Lill and Prokofiev's Eighth Sonata at sixty

Malcolm Miller attended the world première of a work for two marimbas at Carnegie Hall, with a presentation to Daniel Liebeskind

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