He also sang recitals, oratorios, and numerous roles as a lyric tenor with major opera companies in Europe and America.
He was drafted upon graduation from high school in 1944, assigned to the 7th Armored Division tank corps and sent to the European theater in January 1945, attached to the British First Army.
[3] Returning to the U.S. after the war, he pursued undergraduate studies at Westminster Choir College in Princeton NJ[5] before transferring to University of Michigan.
degree in musicology from the University of Michigan and was then awarded a Fulbright Grant to study voice in Rome, Italy, at l’Accademia di Santa Cecilia.
[7] He became internationally known for his abilities as a teacher of singing; for many years he gave teaching sessions all over North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
In addition to founding and directing the Vocal Arts Center (OBSVAC) at Oberlin Conservatory, he was a member of the Collegium Medicorum Theatri and American Academy of Teachers of Singing and was on the Otolaryngology Adjunct Staff of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
On April 30, 1970, as the war in Vietnam continued to escalate, President Richard M. Nixon announced a U.S. military invasion of Cambodia.
On May 10, 1970, Richard Miller was tenor soloist when Oberlin Conservatory faculty and students traveled to D.C. to express opposition to war and violence by offering a peaceful musical response to the tragedies: a performance of Mozart's Requiem at the Washington National Cathedral.
Internationally renowned for these masterclasses, he taught in Austria, Australia, Canada, England, France,[17] Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and 38 US states.