[3] Consequently, he studied law at Columbia University where he graduated in 1957, the same year that he made his formal debut as a pianist in Carnegie Recital Hall.
[1] As a pianist, Miller specialized in performing music by Northeastern American composers "of a cerebral, technically demanding bent", such as Milton Babbitt, Stefan Wolpe, Charles Wuorinen and Elliott Carter.
[1] His fluent technique enabled him on one occasion to learn Roger Sessions's Second Piano Sonata in a single night.
Beginning in 1964, he taught in the summers at the Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center in Vermont, and also gave master classes and seminars throughout the US.
[1] He died of cancer at 50 years of age on November 30, 1981, in Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, New York.