Edward Jay Miller, Professor of Composition and Music Theory, has been on the Oberlin faculty since 1971. He was a faculty member at the Hartt School of Music from 1959-71. He has a BM from the University of Miami, 1953, and an MM from the Hartt School of Music, 1955.

He has studied with Carlos Chevez, 1953, and Boris Bacher, 1955, at Tanglewood where he won the Koussevitzky Prize. He was a Fulbirght Scholar to Berlin, 1956-58, where he studied with Boris Bacher and Josef Rufer. In addition, he has received the following awards: Guggenheim Fellowship to Rome, 1967-68; Library of Congress/Koussevitzky Foundation Commission, 1969; Ohio Arts Council Individual Composer's Award, 1988; National Endowment for the Arts Two-year Composition Award, 1990-91l and Resident Scholar at Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio, Italy Study and Conference Center, spring 1993.