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
