Vladimir Miller

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Vladimir Miller is one of the few singers possessing the rare low-ranging basso profundo voice. He was born in Siberia in 1964. Miller was not thinking of a vocal career as a young man. He graduated from Leningrad State Conservatoire as a musicologist. Later he realized that he had a calling for singing and went to study singing in Germany, at Cologne Music School. His teachers were Reinhard Leisenheimer and Kurt Moll. He soon became a leading soloist in the St. Petersburg State Academic Capella.

News about V. miller's unique voice spread in Russia and overseas, and he started being invited to give solo concerts in Great Britain, Germany, the Vatican, the Netherlands, Italy, USA. Miller has learned and performed an extensive repertoire, singing leading parts in operas by Mozart and Claudio Monteverdi. He also sang parts in cantatas and oratorios by H. Shutz, J.S. Bach, A. Bruckener, A. Grechaninov, John Tavener, etc. Vladimir Miller has sung in the Male Choir of the Valaam Institute for Choral Art since 1990.

Dates and information verifiable by the liner notes of "Chants of the Russian Orthodox Church" by the Male choir of the Valaam Institute for Choral Art. Writtin by K. Nikitin, Trasnlated by Irina Simonchik.