Richard Miller has written articles for over 120 professional journals. In 2006 Richard Miller received the Voice Education Research Awareness Award from The Voice Foundation for his contributions to the field of voice communication. In May 1990, he was decorated Chevalier/Officier into the French Order of Arts and Letters at the hand of Madame Regine Crespin "in recognition of contributions to the art of vocalism in France and throughout the world". In 1989 Richard Miller received an honorary doctorate from Gustavus Adolphus College. His students had successes at La Scala in Milan, Italy, and Covent Garden in London and other top stages. Internationally renowned for these master-classes, he taught in Austria, Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and 38 USA states. After retirement, he continued to teach some master-classes. In November 2005, he retired from the Oberlin Conservatory. He presented lectures and classes at the Paris Conservatoire Superieure, at the Marseilles National Opera School, and at Centre Polyphonique. He taught for 28 years at the Mozarteum International Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria. Richard Miller's work as teacher and voice scientist included: Wheeler Professor of Performance at Oberlin Conservatory (1964-2004) Founder/Director of the Vocal Arts Center (OBSVAC) at Oberlin Conservatory Collegium Medicorum Theatri member American Academy of Teachers of Singing Otolaryngology Adjunct Staff, Cleveland Clinic Foundation. The vocal arts center at Oberlin was the first of its kind to be based within a music school. Schoepfle Vocal Arts Center, an acoustic laboratory that measures vocal production and provides visual and auditory feedback to the singer. He founded Oberlin Conservatory's Otto B. He authored eight books and hundreds of articles on singing technique and vocal pedagogy. Richard Miller became internationally known for his abilities as a teacher of singing for many years he gave teaching sessions all over North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. He sang often with the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell, Pierre Boulez, and Louis Lane, including the summer promenade concerts and all five of the Cleveland Orchestra's Lake Erie Opera seasons at Severance Hall. During those years, until age 60, he sang hundreds of performances of oratorio and opera, including appearances with the San Francisco and San Antonio Operas and other major opera companies in Europe and America. Richard Miller returned to the USA in 1957, and taught singing at the University of Michigan for five years, then at Oberlin Conservatory for over 40 years. He later sang for four years as leading lyric tenor at the opera house in Zurich, Switzerland. degree in Musicology from the University of Michigan, he was awarded in 1952 a Fulbright Grant to study voice in Rome, Italy, at L'Accademia di Santa Cecilia. Stationed near Marseilles after the war, he took voice lessons at the Marseilles Conservatory. He was drafted upon graduation from high school in 1944, assigned to the 7th Armored Division tank corps and sent to the European theater in January 1945, attached to the British First Army. Advised not to sing during the voice-change period, he studied piano, cello, and organ, but returned to singing in musicals at Lincoln High School in Canton. Before his voice changed, at age 11, he sang hundreds of times in the Canton, Ohio, area. The American tenor and teacher, Richard Miller, began singing publicly at age 3.
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