Southern Wesleyan University — Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities

DMA (University of Kentucky), MM (Mercer University), MME (University of Georgia), BME (Valdosta State University)

Samuel Miller currently serves Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Southern Wesleyan University.  Previous faculty appointments include Kennesaw State University, LaGrange College, and over a decade of high school instruction in Georgia.  Outside of the academic world, Dr. Miller has served as Artistic Director of the Kennesaw State University Community and Alumni Choir, Associate Director of the Choral Society of Middle Georgia, and was a singing and conducting member of the Orpheus Men's Ensemble based in Atlanta.

Dr. Miller’s choral work has included preparing choirs for national and divisional ACDA conferences, Kentucky and Georgia Music Educators Association conferences, an Intercollegiate Male Chorus seminar, and large-scale works by Mozart, Brahms, Berlioz, Rutter, and several others.  Dr. Miller was recently included on the album Fugitive Footsteps as conductor of the KSU Chamber Singers in performance of holocaust memorial music.  Dr. Miller also recently contributed to a collegiate textbook on the matter of working with students with disabilities while in the music education classroom.

Dr. Miller is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association, the National Association for Music Education and has served in leadership roles in state chapters of both.  He is an adjudicator and clinician for GMEA, SCMEA, ACSI, and GAPPS.