May Concert Guest Artist: Jonathan Miller, Cello
Jonathan Miller studied literature at the University of California at Berkeley. After attending a Pablo Casal’s master class, he was accepted as a scholarship student at Juilliard School, and later became a pupil of Bernard Greenhouse. Nine years later, Casals was to publicly acclaim Miller as an outstanding exponent of Bach. Mr. Miller held appointments as principal cellist of the Julliard, Hartford and San Diego Symphonies. He has performed as soloist with the Hartford Symphony, The Boston Pops, Cape Ann, and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra of Boston. Miller won the Jeunesses Musicales auditions. He twice toured the US with the New York String Sextet, and appeared as a member of the Fine Arts Quartet. He performed as a featured soloist at the American Cello Congress in the spring of 1990 at the invitation of Rostropovitch, and also a soloist at the 1996 Congress.
Miller has over the years collaborated in many chamber music concerts with distinguished musicians including: violinists Renaud Capucon, Eugene Drucker, Hillary Hahn, Daniel Phillips, Gil Shaham and Joel Smirnoff; violists Yuri Bashment, Roberto Diaz, Paul Doktor, James Dunham, and Kim Kashkashian; and pianists Emanuel Ax and Garrick Ohlson. He is a member of the Gramercy Trio, which has twice received glowing reviews in the New York Times for its New York City performances.
