Our Conductor, Bob Miller
Bob is proud to be in his fourth season as conductor of the Venice Concert Band. The band is comprised of volunteer musicians from all walks of life who began their musical journey in school music programs. They joined the Venice Concert Band to rekindle their love of playing band music in the concert ensemble setting. Each donates his time and talents every Monday night, October through April, to prepare these concerts for you. The band plays a varied repertoire from standard and contemporary literature for band to the Broadway stage, classical transcriptions, marches, patriotic medleys, and seasonal works. Vocal and instrumental soloists are featured. At each concert Bob will share information and stories about the pieces performed, the composers, and the arrangers.
This is Bob's fifth season as conductor of the Charlotte County Concert Band in Punta Gorda. He has played euphonium in the North Port Concert Band for eleven years and this is his ninth season as their assistant conductor. He is a former conductor of the First Brass of Sarasota. Bob received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Music Education at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. He earned his Master's Degree in Music History and Literature and his Music Supervisor's Certification from Temple University in Philadelphia. Bob is retired from teaching instrumental and vocal music in the Abington School District in suburban Philadelphia. For 41 summers he took high school musicians on a European cultural and performance tour with an organization called American Music Abroad. And he also took a group of students on a performance tour of China. Bob has performed with community theaters in the Philadelphia area and with Venice Theater.
Bob and his wife, Carolyn, of 52 years live in Nokomis where Bob enjoys golf, bridge, cooking, traveling, and, of course, music. Bob thanks you for attending the Venice Band Concerts for that shows your appreciation of the beauty and power of concert band music. He reminds us all that for every piece of music we hear, there is a "first time." He hopes that this year the band will play a piece for you that "you don't yet know you love."
This is Bob's fifth season as conductor of the Charlotte County Concert Band in Punta Gorda. He has played euphonium in the North Port Concert Band for eleven years and this is his ninth season as their assistant conductor. He is a former conductor of the First Brass of Sarasota. Bob received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Music Education at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. He earned his Master's Degree in Music History and Literature and his Music Supervisor's Certification from Temple University in Philadelphia. Bob is retired from teaching instrumental and vocal music in the Abington School District in suburban Philadelphia. For 41 summers he took high school musicians on a European cultural and performance tour with an organization called American Music Abroad. And he also took a group of students on a performance tour of China. Bob has performed with community theaters in the Philadelphia area and with Venice Theater.
Bob and his wife, Carolyn, of 52 years live in Nokomis where Bob enjoys golf, bridge, cooking, traveling, and, of course, music. Bob thanks you for attending the Venice Band Concerts for that shows your appreciation of the beauty and power of concert band music. He reminds us all that for every piece of music we hear, there is a "first time." He hopes that this year the band will play a piece for you that "you don't yet know you love."