Leta Miller

Leta Miller, professor of music at UCSC, has been featured on fifteen solo compact disc recordings on Renaissance, Baroque, and modern flute. A specialist in 16th-, 18th-, and 20th-century music, Miller has conducted instrumental and vocal ensembles at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and in the Santa Cruz community for more than a dozen years. She has also published books, articles, and critical editions on the 16th- century chanson and madrigal, music and science in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the music of C.P.E. Bach. Her book  Lou Harrison: Composing a World (Oxford University Press, 1998) garnered rave reviews internationally. Miller's current writing focuses on the music of John Cage, Henry Cowell, and the 20th-century avant garde. She has been awarded numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Copland Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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