Andy Miller is lecturer in music in percussion at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, with an emphasis in Latin jazz and Afro-Latin percussion music.
An engaging performer and passionate educator, he navigates the diverse world of percussion with technical and musical precision across a broad range of artistic practices. Fostering a deep interest in the percussion music of the African diaspora, Miller has studied with master percussionists in the United States and internationally.
In 2011, he received a Fulbright Grant to Colombia, where he studied Afro-Colombian currulao, cumbia, and bullerengue with “La Wey” Segura, Francis Lara, and Emilsen Pacheco. Miller returned to Colombia with a Presser Graduate Music Award in 2015 to study joropo music with Fernando Torres Ramirez. For his doctoral project, Miller conducted field research in Brazil with Jorge Alabê on the “Language of Afro-Brazilian Candomblé Drumming.”
Recently, Miller’s study of bomba percussion, song, and dance has taken him to Puerto Rico to study with Beto Torrens, Marién Torres, Rafa Maya, and Hector “Coco” Baréz. From 2009 to 2012, he studied mande drumming from Guinea with master percussionist Bolokada Conde, and from 2014 to 2017, he studied Afro-Cuban folkloric and popular percussion with Michael Spiro.
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