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Sue Miller – Cuban Flute Improviser, Writer & Academic

Courses Taught

Sue Miller is currently senior lecturer in  music  and Course Leader for the BA in Popular Music at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY TEACHING 2012-present

  • Popular Music in Context
  • Composing and Improvising
  • Performance Studies
  • Intertextuality

LEEDS UNIVERSITY TEACHING 2006-2011

  • Practical Skills: Cuban Music, General Musicianship and Improvisation units
  • Understanding Popular Styles: Popular Music Theory and Analysis
  • Approaches to the Analysis of Popular and World Musics: theoretical analysis, aural perception, semiological and musicological approaches  (e.g. Philip Tagg, Allen Forte, Samuel Floyd and  Simon Frith)
  • Ethnomusicology: Theory and Practice
  • Early Jazz and its Precedents
  • Duke Ellington (his music, musicians and the development of jazz through the 20th century)
  • Music in History and Culture: The History of Cuban Music
  • Projects in Performance: Cuban Music
  • Music Research Skills: Listening to Latin Jazz
  • French Chanson

YORKSHIRE COLLEGE OF MUSIC 1994-2011

St Marks house, 1 St Marks Avenue

LS2 9 BN

INSTRUMENTAL TEACHING:

  • Flute to diploma level in classical and jazz syllabuses
  • Saxophone to grade 8 level classical and jazz
  • Piano to grade 8 level classical and to grade 5 jazz

ENSEMBLES AND COURSES

  • Improvisation groups
  • Cuban music weekend courses
  • Cuban Music Ensembles

LUNCHTIME LECTURES

BAND DIRECTION: Various Cuban Music Big Bands and workshops across the UK

The Cuban Big Band: Seven, Leeds – 12th July 2009

Cuban big band