Caroline Miller

Caroline Miller earned her Ph.D. in Music Composition and her MA in Music at University of California, San Diego. Before coming to UCSD for Grad School, she worked at a Community Music Academy (in Kansas City), where she participated in an outreach program called Musical Bridges. She taught a diverse population of high school students music theory and composition as part of an after-school program. She interned and served as a mentor for a summer composition camp in 2010, working with pre-teens and teens on developing composition skills.

• BA Music Composition, UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance, Kansas City, MI
• MA in Music, University of California, San Diego, CA
• Ph.D. in Music Composition, University of California, San Diego, CA

• Associate-In, University of California, San Diego, CA (2016-2019)
• Teaching Assistant, University of California, San Diego, CA (2015-2019)
• Private Piano Instructor, UMKC Community Music and Dance Academy, Kansas City, MI (2011-2012)
• Private Composition Instructor, Kansas City High Schools, Kansas City, MI (2011-2012)
• Mentor, UMKC Summer Composition Workshop, Kansas City, MI (2010)

• 2018 Grand Prize, ISB/David Walter Composition
  Competition, International Society of Bassists
• 2018 Chamber Music America Classical
  Commissioning Grant
  SPLICE Ensemble, Brooklyn, NY
• 2018 Adoptions 2019 commission
  Ensemble Adapter, Berlin, Germany
• 2017 Carolyn Applebaum Endowed Prize
  UC San Diego
• 2017 Artist Proposal Selected and Funded
  SPOR Festival, Denmark