After a brief but successful period of concertizing in Europe, Miquelle came to America with the French Military Band in May 1918 and toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada.
He joined the Boston String Quartet in 1921 and in 1923 toured the country with Dame Nellie Melba and Tito Schipa.
During this period he gave numerous sonata recitals and chamber music concerts with Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor of the Detroit Symphony from 1918 to 1936.
In 1919[1] he married Renée Longy, French-American pianist, music theorist, and noted pedagogue who served as a faculty member of the Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music, and the Peabody Conservatory.
He later married Emily Derrer Rairdon,[2] former violon-cellist of Toledo Symphony and music instructor at Bowling Green State University and University of Texas Austin.