Jody Miller has taught recorder and early music for over thirty years. While he enjoys performing, he is best known as a recorder pedagogue and is in demand as a teacher and consort coach. His early study was with Steve Rosenburg (recorder) of the College of Charleston and Dana Ragsdale (harpsichord) of the University of Southern Mississippi. Additional studies were with Marion Verbruggen, Eva Legêne, Aldo Abreu, and Frances Blaker.
Jody is Music Director of Lauda Musicam of Atlanta, a large community-based ensemble comprised of a 40-piece Renaissance band, a Baroque orchestra, a capped reed ensemble, a brass reed ensemble, a viol ensemble, and a flute ensemble. When Lauda Musicam of Austin was formed as a sister organization he helped shaped the direction of the ensemble. He has been Director of Mountain Collegium Early Music and Folk Music Workshop since 2011. During that time he has expanded the workshop to be one of the largest in the country, with programs for early brass and reeds and for emerging recorder and viol players. Jody has taught at workshops throughout the country, including San Francisco Early Music Society Workshop, Bloom Early Music Workshop, and Amherst Early Music Festival Online Workshop. He regularly travels to Greensboro, NC, to lead the Triad Early Music Society and he maintains a large recorder studio at his home in Marietta, GA.
Jody is a member of Amethyst Baroque Ensemble and Sol Divino 17th Century Ensemble. His orchestral performances include the Victoria (TX) Bach Festival, Cincinnati Opera, New Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Atlanta Opera, and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. As a supporter of new music for the recorder, he works closely with composer Timothy Broege and has given several premier performances of Broege’s compositions. In 2022, Miller performed Gregory Hamilton’s new work for unaccompanied recorder, Ave Maria Variations.