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Sue Miller – Cuban Flute Improviser, Writer & Academic

Courses Taught

Sue Miller is currently a part-time lecturer and research student at the University of Leeds

LEEDS UNIVERSITY TEACHING

  • 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,  Simon Frith and Richard Middleton)
  • Ethnomusicology: Theory and Practice
  • Early Jazz and its Precedents
  • 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

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

CUBAN MUSIC COURSES IN HAVANA

2006, 2007 and 2011 (see teaching news post for details of the next course in Havana),  the next course in Havana will take place April 2011

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

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

Cuban big band