Crista Miller:  

Life Much in demand as a solo artist, choral conductor, sacred musician, scholar, and teacher, Crista MILLER has performed in Italy, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, throughout the US, and live on WXXI radio. As Music Director and Cathedral Organist at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston, Texas, she is developing a graded music program and is responsible for new organs for the new cathedral building’s opening in 2008. Under her direction, Sacred Heart’s Schola Cantorum recently performed the world premiere recording of works of Robert Dvorak (b. 1919), the Houston premiere of Pergolesi’s Miserere in C Minor, and liturgical music for Archbishop Joseph A. Fiorenza’s ceremonial receipt of the Pallium from Pope Benedict, with subsequent Italian tour venues of St. Peter’s Basilica, St. Mary Major, and the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. Dr. Miller serves on the music faculty of the University of St. Thomas where her pedagogical interests include historic-based organ performance practice, liturgical music and the revival of “forgotten” sacred treasures, training the church musician, music theory, early music, and contemporary music. Solo performance venues in 2006-7 include Goshen College, the Arthur Krempin School of the Arts, Washington National Cathedral and Eglise de la Trinité in Paris, France. Dr. Miller earned the DMA in organ performance and the Sacred Music Diploma at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, studying under Hans Davidsson. There she received the graduate award for the Eastman Rochester O...Expand for more