Our Faculty

Background

Dan Miller is the instructor of saxophone and the director of the Harpur Studio Jazz Band at Binghamton University. He has studied saxophone with April Lucas, Ronald Caravan, Joe Riposo, Steven Mauk and Jamal Rossi. 

Miller has performed with the Syracuse Society for New Music, the Binghamton Philharmonic, the national musical tours of Chicago and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, and with a wide variety of performers, including Frankie Valli, Martha Reeves, Les Elgart, Ann Hampton Callaway and Sherrie Maricle. He regularly freelances on saxophone, flute and clarinet throughout Central New York, and is a member of the Southern Tier Concert Band, the Empire Saxophone Quartet, the Finger Lakes Saxophone Quartet, and the Binghamton-based commercial band Rooster and the Roadhouse Horns.

In addition to his work at Binghamton, Miller serves on the faculty of SUNY Broome and has also taught at Syracuse University. He retired from the Spencer-Van Etten School District in 2024 following a 34-year career as a public school music educator. He is active as a band director for the American Music Abroad Red Tour and has conducted concerts in England, Finland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. He is also the assistant director for the Vestal High School Marching Band and has received multiple awards from the National Band Association, including the Outstanding Jazz Educator Award in 2018 and a Citation of Excellence for his work with the Spencer-Van Etten High School band in 2024. Miller regularly appears as a guest soloist, conductor and clinician throughout New York state and Pennsylvania.

He holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree with Performance Honors from Syracuse University and a Master of Music Education degree from Ithaca College. Miller joined the faculty at Binghamton University in 2017.

Education

• MME, Ithaca College
• BME, Syracuse University