Sue Miller - Flute/Piano LEEDS
Sue Miller is a Professor of Music at Leeds Beckett University and is also a professional flute player and bandleader of Charanga del Norte. Sue obtained a PhD in Cuban flute improvisation in charanga performance at the University of Leeds in 2011 having studied previously at the Universities of Leeds and York. After six years teaching on the BA in Popular and World Music at Leeds University Sue became Senior Lecturer in Music, Course Director for Music and Course Leader for the BA in Popular Music at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge in 2012 before taking up a senior lecturing post in music at Leeds Beckett University in 2015 teaching on the BA in Performance and Production and the MA in Popular Music and Culture. A qualified teacher (PGCE) since 1990, Sue is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Her research specialises in improvisation, Cuban music and music analysis, and her first book Cuban Flute Style: Interpretation and Improvisation was published by Scarecrow Press in 2014. Her second book for the University Press of Mississippi (2021) Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York is “the first thorough exploration of the innovative, flute-driven Cuban dance music of New York – charanga.” Sue teaches performance, improvisation, music history, and music analysis at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and her PhD supervisions are undertaken within the fields of music performance, (ethno)musicology, music analysis and popular music studies.
Her research specialises in improvisation, Cuban music and music analysis, and her first book Cuban Flute Style: Interpretation and Improvisation was published by Scarecrow Press in 2014. Her second book for the University Press of Mississippi (2021) Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York is “the first thorough exploration of the innovative, flute-driven Cuban dance music of New York – charanga.” Sue teaches performance, improvisation, music history, and music analysis at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and her PhD supervisions are undertaken within the fields of music performance, (ethno)musicology, music analysis and popular music studies.