pNeXT Ensemble
Sun, Nov 23
|Clara
Comprised of piano (or organ), cello, and horn, the pNeXT Ensemble is a performance group made at its core of pianist/composer Michael Miller and his colleagues, cellist & composer Ari Scott, and horn player Jonathan Thomas.
Time & Location
Nov 23, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Clara, 2027 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647, USA
About the event
Composer, pianist, and organist Michael Gustav Miller (b.1968) began studying piano in 1973 with Sandra Renegar in Ida Grove, Iowa, including theory, composition, and wind instruments. At 13 he started organ lessons with Phyllis Schultz. He continued studying piano with Arne Sorensen in Sioux City, Iowa.
Early concerto appearances included Beethoven second in Sioux City, and Saint-Saëns second in Valparaiso, Indiana, as the first winner of the Lutheran Summer Music Program national academy’s concerto competitions, in 1983. He served as organist for several churches in his hometown during middle and high school, and for churches in Iowa City while in college.
Michael attended the University of Iowa in Iowa City as one of only ten full scholarship academic Presidential Scholars, studying piano with noted pedagogues John Simms and Kenneth Amada, oboe with James Lakin, and composition with Richard Hervig and William Hibbard, graduating Summa Cum Laude in 1988 with degrees…